McCain talking about the energy bill. (C-Span 3:30 p.m ET) BAD BILL

[LittleApple81]

So much pork we will need special treatment for trichinosis...

To search for the bad things in this bill, he does not know where to start. He feels like a mosquito in a nudist colony... LOL!!!

[BuckeFushe]

1. He is SLAMMING it as if HE were a Dem.

:) GREAT job.

[Athletic Grrl]

2. Just awesome!

That little weasel down Georgia way could learn a lot from McCain.

[lysergik]

3. Go McCain

Wow, he's ripped into this full force and hasn't held anything back! Good to see he's on the right side on this bill.

on the other hand..

Sen. Domenici seems like he should be in a rest home after he was easily confused over Cantwell yielding 5 mins to Durbin. :wtf:

He backed up my point by saying they should pay attention to their constituants and then read a list of big business associations that would directly benefit from this bogus energy bill.

[BuckeFushe]

5. Did you notice Domenici squeezing his right hand?

Wonder if he was thinking about wads of cash?

[LittleApple81]

24. I think he has a problem with his hands. Arthritis? He always

gestures as if he has a problem especially with the right hand.

[LittleApple81]

30. Jack Reid - from Rhode Island, D. but he is talking about Medicare. n/t

[joanski01]

4. I heard Senator Judd Gregg

R.-NH slamming it this morning. Really pissed off the dolt from Idaho (R. Senator Craig). Craig asked Judd to stay on the floor so he could ask him a question. Nope. Judd just walked out. Ha Ha

Maybe the Repukes will lose this one.

[LittleApple81]

6. Subsidising HOOTERS AND POLLUTERS!!!!! n/t

[BuckeFushe]

9. WHAT'S HAPPENED TO THE REPUBLICAN PARTY

I BET HE WON'T VOTE FOR IT!!!!!

[BuckeFushe]

7. Subsidzing Hooters and Polluters

OMG he is on FIRE :yourock:

[LittleApple81]

8. The NYT and WST both are against this bill... for the first time in his

memory.

[LittleApple81]

10. A half a trillion debt next year. What's happened to the

Republican Party? What happened to the SS fund lock box?
We get all this pork that we cannot even analyze because we see this bill with such a little time to study it.

[LittleApple81]

11. Dorgan (D-ND) now up.

55% oil resources comes from outside our borders.

[LittleApple81]

12. We will use fossil fuels in the future.

Incentivize oil plus other sources of energy. How to do this.

Efficiency that we need to foster.

Renewable resources.

Things we need to have in an energy bill.

This bill constructed behind locked doors without consultation.
NEVER AGAIN. We won't give consent to this arrogant process of conference closed to te minority party.

[BuckeFushe]

13. The farm belt thugs are backing this for the damn Ethenol subsidy

Grease their states, the hell with the rest of the country. McCain said it best, we have a net energy loss to produce ethenol plus we lose tax revenues by PAYING the producers 52 cents a gallon.

[LittleApple81]

14. Actually Durbin said he would reject it despite the fact that

his state would benefit from the ethanol provision because the bill is so bad. But I think repugs wanted to buy Daschel, so they might have succeeded on that side.

[LittleApple81]

15. Dorgan is defending Ethanol. n/t

[BuckeFushe]

16. He doesn't want to piss off Archer-Daniels

[BuckeFushe]

17. We can't continue to put gasolene through the carburetors

Uh, Sen, Dorgan, the only engines that use carburetors are lawn mowers.

[LittleApple81]

18. Dorgan is sold to ethanol. The process is awful.

Conferees should not be appointed.
What is in this legislation for the country? MY FOOT (my comment).

Ethanol for his state is his only concern.

Conservation that is real, efficiency, and I don't know what the other two were but these were well done in the bill. So apparently he is supporting this bill.

[lysergik]

19. Thats not true!

[SahaleArm]

20. It will be - EFI will be standard *nm*

*nm*

[lysergik]

23. Hardly..

Automobiles that were equipped with carburetors from the factory will continue to use carbs.

[SahaleArm]

26. Eventually they will die - Lifespan limitations.

New cars are not built with carbs.

[lysergik]

32. Eventually they won't.

I know this as I play mechanic once in awhile.

[BuckeFushe]

21. Collins up (R-Maine)

She's not backing the bullshit either. I think that both the Medifraud prescription drug hand out and this bill are going down. Too many Rethugs standing up to them.

[LittleApple81]

22. That would be awesome!!!! n/t

[LittleApple81]

25. Now Akaka (D HI)

He is worried about the hydrogen title.

[LittleApple81]

27. LANDRIEU (D LA) IS FOR THE BILL!!!! WHY? what do they have in LA?

[LittleApple81]

28. Never mind. She just said it: net exporter of oil. Money wins. n/t

[BuckeFushe]

29. Huge off-shore oil and gas reserves.

Money trumps, everytime.

[lysergik]

33. She's in it for the Hooters!

;) n/t

[SahaleArm]

31. "It's the leave-no-lobbyist-behind bill"

Pork-barrel politics at it's finest.

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