Comments on: Sen. Clinton Asks Questions at Armed Services Committee Hearing [Updates & Great Reviews!]

By: Five Thirty

Five Thirty — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:07:06 +0000

You get your info from the same place Dubya will find those darn weapons of mass destruction – in the GOP’s imagination!

By: Mikey

Mikey — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:10:53 +0000

A: Only the ‘queen’ reference, as in Queen Bee. The rest is as original as Sen. Clinton is not. I get what I can from multiple sources, so not to be brain washed from one position.

Her position is very close to Sen. Obama’s; socialized medicine, tax the high earners, and promise more entitlements for votes. Both do not state they will reduce the military, however, that single digit percentage item of the budget gets in their way of funding more costly initiatives.

At least I’m not lying about pregnant women who are refused care and both the infant and mother die due to lack of quality medical care. If you are going to tell a lie, you better have an excellent backstop. And the Bosnia sniper caper; how ignorant do you think the American people are? I’m waiting for Sen. Clinton to claim she invented the CAT SCAN device.

Respectfully

By: Five Thirty

Five Thirty — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:21:52 +0000

Q: do you get your info from Rush Limbaugh?

By: Mikey

Mikey — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 04:02:03 +0000

I was working and did not have time to watch the Inquisition. However, I did hear that Sen. Clinton couldn’t be courteous to other committee members with her full attention, instead, catching up on a cat nap or two. Is it that the campaign is too taxing and she cannot manage her time properly? (Clinton 1 was well known for not maintaining a schedule). Or is that she has no time for others, including other Dems? If elected, how much time would she have for the common US citizen when the first item on her agenda will be to initiate her legacy program, since Clinton 1 left nothing but a trail of disasters.

I breezed quickly through the comments above and I didn’t notice anyone trying to spin her neglect and elitist berth. Enough said.

On another note, what will we do with two queens? Will the Catholic one plot to overthrow the sitting one? Will history repeat itself?!?!

By: Gloria

Gloria — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 02:43:32 +0000

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POWER PLAYS: THE WORLD ENERGY WATCH FOR APRIL 9, 2008
Posted on April 8, 2008 by GRL

The World Energy Watch presents excerpts of analysis and recent news reports highlighting the activities of the players involved in the power struggle for the world’s remaining energy resources and energy sustainability.

1//A sobering look at our future oil situation from Energy and Oil by Byron King tops the news in this week’s edition. Looks like both domestic and imported oil supplies will be drying up by 2025. Then what?

The U.S. Oil Supply — A Look At Our Future Oil Needs

New discoveries and new wells just cannot keep up with depletion of older oil fields. By 2025, U.S. daily oil output will be a fraction of its current level (probably down to about 2-3 million barrels per day), even with an aggressive program of drilling offshore and in Alaska — which is not happening, in any case. … . Also by 2025, U.S. imports will almost certainly decline. The oil will not be available to buy and import from world markets. Not everyone agrees with this. In one fanciful projection from 2005, the U.S. DOE forecast that “Total U.S. gross petroleum imports are projected to increase in the reference case from 12.3 million barrels per day in 2003 to 20.2 million in 2025.” Maybe in somebody’s dreams, but my view is that this is one projection that will never come true. … . Really, by 2025, the rest of the oil-producing world will simply lack the product to export. This will be due to reasons of depletion on a global scale, and fast-growing internal demand in oil-producing nations. Gasoline consumption in places as diverse as Russia, Iran, Venezuela and Saudi Arabia is just soaring, so there is less net oil available for export. … . So what will happen in 2025? Will the U.S. pump its own oil? No, it’s not there. Will the U.S. continue to import large volumes? No, it won’t be available. The bottom line is that conventional oil sources for the U.S. — domestic output and imports — are simply drying up.

Read more stories….China and Syria, Iraqi “potato seller” now making a lot of US money protecting oil pipelines and US troops…..

By: AF catfish

AF catfish — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:40:46 +0000

OK so Obama had all this time to prepare for this hearing, and his questions were really basic. This was his chance to put to rest any doubts about his gravitas.

By: mel

mel — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:02:55 +0000

You doing the same for Obama with his commitee on Europe and NAFTA for equal fair billing Susan?

By: mel

mel — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:00:42 +0000

Anyone who thinks Obama will pull out of Iraq is listening to fairytales!

With money bundlers and contributors such as General Electric, a major war profiteer of aircraft equipment (owners of NBC) and General Dynamics who has seen both sales a profit increase in leaps and bounds from the war will certainly demand payback if Obama wins!

James Crown, Obama’s financial co-chair in Illinois and on the nation finance commitee is a major stake holder of General Dynamics and a major bundler for Obama along with being a major stakeholder in JPMorgan Chase. The guy from Maytag fame of jobs off to mexico while Obama did nothing but give a speech!

Will the news bring it up, no way, someone needs to bring out the TRUTH about Obama and soon!

Follow Obama’s voting records, it proves who he is working for!

By: Five Thirty

Five Thirty — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:01:07 +0000

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/documents/iraq_hearing_040808.html
(CLINTON:)….Let me ask you: Do you anticipate that the Iraqi government would submit such an agreement to the Iraqi parliament for ratification?
CROCKER: The Iraqi government has indicated it will bring the agreement to the Council of Representatives. At this point, it is not clear, at least to me, whether that will be for a formal vote or whether they will repeat the process they used in November with the declaration of principles, in which it was simply read to the members of the parliament.
CLINTON: Does the administration plan to submit this agreement to our Congress?
CROCKER: At this point, Senator, we do not anticipate that the agreements will have within them any elements that would require the advise-and-consent procedure. We intend to negotiate this as an executive agreement.
CLINTON: Well, Ambassador Crocker, it seems odd, I think, to Americans who are being asked to commit for an indefinite period of time the lives of our young men and women in uniform, the civilian employees, whom you rightly referenced and thanked, as well as billions of dollars of additional taxpayer dollars, if the Iraqi parliament may have a chance to consider this agreement, that the United States Congress would not.
And as you may know, I currently have legislation requiring the Congress to have an opportunity to consider such an agreement before it is signed. And I would urge you to submit such an agreement to the Congress for full consideration….

By: SusanUnPC

SusanUnPC — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:32:29 +0000

Wow. I haven’t had time to read it yet. If you can, please quote the part of the transcript where she says that. Thanks!

By: Five Thirty

Five Thirty — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:29:27 +0000

I read the transcript at the Washington Post website and agree with others that the really brilliant thing that HRC did was to ask if the US Congress could have the same right as the Iraqi Parliament to see the lastest agreement between the 2 countries. Clever and telling!

By: SusanUnPC

SusanUnPC — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:26:07 +0000

I just added a great update — a hot review from Time magazine’s Jay Carney on Hillary’s questions and comments during today’s Armed Services Committee hearing — at the top of this story. WTG, Hillary!

By: AmyinSC

AmyinSC — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:42:38 +0000

I got that letter today, too – thanks for posting yours, Susan – I was going to post it here if you hadn’t. So, I’m in!

YOUR CONTRIBUTION RECEIPT:

DATE: April 8, 2008 1:45 PM CDT
NAME: Amy
AMOUNT: $75.00

By: SusanUnPC

SusanUnPC — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:30:04 +0000

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By: IndyRobin

IndyRobin — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:45:25 +0000

Susan and Larry,

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