I watched the debate clowns last night, laughing out loud regularly, as each conservative government-employed poser took turns decrying government and proclaiming it must stay out of our lives (With the exception of policing uteruses, regulating birth control, decreeing who can and cannot marry, whisking people off to third-world shit-holes to be tortured without trial or due process, and covering the respective clown’s paycheck, healthcare, and retirement benefits of course).
The evil clown
The very next question was if Obama could or should intervene in the price of gas. The answers were all, basically, yes he could and he should. Clown Bachmann said it this way “”Don’t forget the day President Obama took office, gasoline was $1.79 a gallon. It’s entirely possible for us to get back to inexpensive energy. The problem is energy is too high. Let’s have a goal of bringing it down because every time gasoline increases 10 cents a gallon, there’s $14 billion in economic activity that every American has taken out of their pocket.”
That’s a good point, our economy is critically dependent on energy prices. But I guess I’m confused here, or someone is anyway. What is the wingnut position on government? Should it stay the hell out of our lives, or should it be so intimately involved in every last detail that it controls the price of a gallon of gas at the corner store? This is the problem with people afraid of elementary logic. They’re hopelessly inconsistent. Subject any one of them to uncensored Q & A for five minutes and the poor candidate would be so tied up in knots of their own making that even the Great Houdini couldn’t get them loose.
I agree. The candidates and their base will have nothing to do with even the most basic logic.
I think the problem is one of comfort. Once you start going down the path of thinking things through logically and having to dig into facts, you tend to be put into very uncomfortable territory. You begin to realize that you don’t control nearly as much as you think you do. You find out that the guys you pinned your hope on aren’t really that interested in you or your problems after all. You can find comfort in knowing the truth, but truth rarely provides comfort for pre-conceived notions.
Unbound is right, they’re completely divorced from reality. Gas prices are lower in the US than in many other countries, but the president can’t directly affect the price of a barrel of crude oil on the world market. Believe it or not, there are other participants in the oil market besides the US. For Bachmann to bring down gas prices so sharply, it would require massive government subsidies. If Obama attempted anything like that, he would be branded a communist. Oh, and the rise in prices is entirely Obama’s fault. It had nothing to do with worldwide supply and demand, global recession, or the greed of oil companies.