Hilariously enough, for those of us that live in Cali, The whole electric fiasco was the catalyst that got the Governator in office. Folks finally had enough of the stupid deregulation that the vote seekers put in place. PG&E couldn't charge more to develop more power plants OR buy electricity from other producers from out of state. They were basivally insolvent and unable to even buy power, so the state had to step in and sign contracts to buy power, and the various power producers said sure, we'll sell you power at this outrageous price. Bye bye Gray.....
What do the hard conservatives and necons say about this? http://www.cedarcomm.com/~stevelm1/usdebt.htm
Must agree, good observation (in hindsigh though). Letting the sjah out and the ayatollah in was the start of a lot of trouble. Ursa..
A lot of Republicans love to claim that incredible growth and commensurate debt/deficit reduction that occurred under Bill Clinton was just a matter of being in the right place at the right time...but I'm sure you're not one of them.
There is nothing conservative about the republican party except they like to call themselves conservative.
You were the guy who came after me. Now I see you are ignorant of the facts. Go back and learn something about the energy crisis and how it was manufactured. Then reread what I wrote. I did not blame it all on Bush. I said Bush had a chance to moderate the screwing. But instead of doing what was right Cheney was secretly meeting with the corupt Enron dopes.
So you want the President of the United States to get involved with a regulatory issue in one state??? It is well known that California shot itself in the foot with their screwy energy plan.....traders took advantage of it....how much was illegal or legal I do not know..... Was anyone ever charged or convicted? It is easy and popular to have self serving PR statements by brain dead politicians.... Remember, CA is a state that is losing businesses by the thousands on a daily basis..... The city of Houston is lobbying very hard to have Chevron move their world headquarters to Houston....leave San Francisco... Cheny's "secret" energy meetings: So, if you are working on an energy plan, would you be talking to the American Medical Association or maybe, the Red Cross???? Of course you talk to the companies in the ENERGY business!!!! That is how the real world operates..... I am not trying to put you down, but one has to listen to both sides of a situation....use some common sense... SteveD
you are as much the problem as the dems putting up crappy candidates. At least I said I voted for a third party candidate. Instead of ranting like a first semester political science student - try suggesting some ways to fix the system.
When the fifth largest economy in the world is involved you are damn right the president should be involved. As I said educate yourself. Bush appointed the chairmen of ferc. it was ferc's job under federal law to prevent manipulation of the energy market. There was a moment in time ferc had a chance to straighten out the mess.
you are daft to use a word from another thread. If you have two dumb bastards, one who was arguably the biggest dick head in viet nam and the senator with one of the worst voting records in the senate and had worse grades than our dumb president, you expect me to vote for the guy who could also do the most damage to the supreme court? Besides now that we have seen how duplicitious the Dems with war and the Middle east. (Supporting tought talk against iran) and not getting us out of Iraq, how do you know Kerry would not have been worse? Your 1st year poly sci thesis about the two parties being the same seems to counter your argument about the culpability of the people who voted for bush.