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52 comments on Wolcott: "Worse Than a Fool"

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Prof. Goose on March 24, 2006 - 12:21am

now that's funny. I haven't been called a conservative in a very long time, not since I was last in the politburo anyway...

was I not clear the first time? And I quoteth:

my only quibble with your logic is this Bill, while it is the executive that controls foreign policy in our system, it is the Congress that writes the checks. The Democrats controlled the pursestrings over the entirety of the time period, and therefore at best implicitly endorsed any action taken...so, both sides are complicit in this in my opinion. To try to blame this on a person or a party when it happened twenty years ago is going to be a very tough case to make.

Now, if I read that correctly, and I do, since I wrote it, I said that the Democrats controlled Congress over that WHOLE PERIOD (save the Republicans having the Senate by two or three seats for six years (81-87)--but that's technically irrelevant really because the actual spending of money in American government is done by the House of Representatives, which was controlled by the Dems the entire time.

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Sterling on March 24, 2006 - 4:55pm

Actually the Republicans had a working majority in the House during that period because they had a faction of Southern Democrats, lead by Phil Gram, who had not yet jumped to the Republican party, who voted with the Republicans. That's why Reagan was able to get legislation through Congress.

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prole on March 25, 2006 - 3:01pm

The Biggest non-answer I have seen recently.

You failed to address the criticism and only spoke in vague generalities.

Why don't you apply the same discipline to your political musings that you apply to Peak Oil analysis?

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Oil CEO on March 26, 2006 - 1:42pm

I think his initial comment sufficed. This is an oil website, not a political one. Democrats and Republicans are both definitely to blame. When was the last time you saw John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi, or Harry Reid stand up and announce their conversion to peak oil? The problem is one that is seriously rooted in every aspect of our culture, corporations, and in every part of the political spectrum in Washington. Did you think the Oil companies and Detroit only gave money to the Republicans? Who are you kidding?

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