My RW neighbor is pissed at Bush over gas prices and she said

[Blue_Roses]

she is starting to see them as greedy oil men! I say, great, but, what took you so long? Better late than never I guess. She is such a Bush-loving-Clinton-hating person that to hear her even say that she is really mad at them over the high gas prices is saying alot. She believes that they should intervene. Hmmm...well, good luck, 'cause reality is a bitch sometimes and the reality is, their party has been suckered by a greedy bunch and they don't give a rats ass about anybody but themselves and $$$$.

[bleedingheart]

1. Actually I hope we look to more progressive routes to curb consumption

not invading more oil rich countries...

[displacedtexan]

2. Ask her if she misunderstood the term "Oil men?"

Oil men make money on high gas prices.

Duh.

[Blue_Roses]

6. I think that's what has finally sunk in

it took all she had to say, "I'm starting to get really mad at our government" ...I went on to say, "well, the "government" is run by hungry oil men who relish in these high gas prices since it takes care of their buddies in big oil companies.

They are making a killing on these gas profits.:mad:

[FreedomAngel82]

30. Watch them find

someway to blame us even though we're not in any type of power.

[SunDrop23]

I agree with better late than never, which may draw the ire

of some of my friends here.

One of the features of the repuke party is that it's an exclusionary club.

We're not like that.

[RandomKoolzip]

14. I'd love to agree with you, but...

For the last five years, we've been screaming at the top of our lungs that some real bad shit was gonna go down, was IN FACT going down, and would continue to go down under King Dipshit. And all our warnings fell on deaf ears because of....what? Stubbornness? Differences in "style?"

Methinks those Bush voters now waking up will continue to vote GOP in the future, simply because of that old canard of logic, "Damn intellectuals trying to tell me what to do." No matter how bad they get beaten up by the party of their choice, they think that it's still better than having to be lectured to by some egghead with a PhD...it's the most fucked up logic in the world, but that's how they think.

[Blue_Roses]

16. sad, but true

nt

[FreedomAngel82]

31. I agree

I used to feel bad but after all we warned them about and Kerry now that it effects them personally they care. They didn't care before, so I say tough luck. This is what they voted for. They're going to learn. Of course once everything is honkeydorey in their lives they'll soon get back to their old ways and not think before they vote.

[skylarmae]

3. "Praise the Lord!

LOL -

[Norquist Nemesis]

4. Ask her about her groceries, utilities, and healthcare bills too!

Everything has gone up...except wages.

[havocmom]

5. I'd remind her to be thankful the junta is only hitting her pocket book,

and not making vacancies at the dinner table with the war for profit founded on lies, like happened to Cindy Sheehan and too many other mothers.

[Vickers]

7. "She believes that they should intervene."

They did.

:eyes:

I swear, George can fuck up ANYTHING. If he invaded Switzerland, 6 months later a Swiss Army knife would cost $500.

[Snotcicles]

8. So I guess your neighbor only gets concerned when it costs her money n/t

[Blue_Roses]

12. yep

looks that way. Maybe that's what it's going to take. Unfortunately, the rest of us who are living paycheck to paycheck are really being hung out to dry :mad:

[Mr Rabble]

18. Like most people. I find this to be the case more often than not..

[progressivebydesign]

9. It's all about the money.. isn't it?? n/t

[goforit]

10. Bush will stab his own followers.

[Redstone]

11. She's just being selfish and greedy and whiney.

She's not changing her views because of anything political; she will likely never give a rat's ass about other people's kids getting killed in Iraq, or Iraqis getting killed in Iraq, or anything else except her own budget.

Although, I suppose, it's probably better to have them PO'd at bushyboy for SOMETHING, even if it's selfish.

Redstone

[Blue_Roses]

13. Excellent point

:thumbsup:

[DinahMoeHum]

15. Sorry, but it serves her right for voting for Bush again.

And if she wants sympathy, she can look for it in between the words "shit" and "syphilis" in the dictionary.


:nopity::nopity::nopity:

[SammyWinstonJack]

17. And if gas prices fell to an acceptable level for her,

she'd be obliviously happy camper once again. :yoiks:

[Vickers]

22. Gee, ya think gas prices will fall before the midterm elections?

:shrug:

[SammyWinstonJack]

24. Probably

I wouldn't put it past the repukes to pull that slimy tactic.

[ellie]

19. My wonderful Democratic neighbor,

we are all Democrats on this side of the street, put his Kerry/Edwards sign back up in his yard. I haven't asked him about it yet, but it's probably because of the high gas prices. He has a long commute.

[City Lights]

20. Glad she's mad at **, but I wonder how she'll vote in the

next election.

That party has been suckered by a greedy, self-serving, $$$-worshiping bunch, but that's exactly why people like her are in that party. She's not pissed off about the unnecessary death and destruction ** has caused, or the countless billions squandered on **'s Iraqi FUBAR, she's pissed off because the high cost of gasoline is hitting her directly in the pocketbook.

How compassionate.

:nopity:

[marions ghost]

26. yknow, some people do not have the

capacity to see beyond their own little microcosm. That's really all they can handle. I'm not sure one can expect them to have a kind of compassion that makes you or I lose sleep because of death and destruction in a distant country. It's always going to be economics first with these limited thinkers.

Now the Sheeple's leaders could HELP them think more wisely...but that's another story. You have to have leaders with the highest integrity and compassion themselves. With the current crowd, we have witnessed the rise of leaders who are about as LOW as you can go, short of the Fascist Dictators' Hall of Fame (which they may yet end up in). These creeps depend on the ignorance of the Sheeple and will do everything to keep them in ignorance--even co-opting their churches.

My point is--the Sheeple are not so much the problem. The lack of leadership from intelligent, wise, (often overlooked component of intelligence) morally sound individuals WHO CAN'T be bought--that is the bigger problem. Our system is sick, and it should be no surprise that it contributes to a sick society, where people think lower gas prices are worth killing for.

[purple in the south]

21. an arm and a leg.......

the price of oil is too high

[kodi]

23. economics trumps morality. people are beginning see how screwed they are

this is the stuff dean was talking about in his inference to white southern males coming back to the democratic fold once they understand that their natural allies are not those who are making a buck off their misery.

[Catherine Vincent]

25. It looks like that is the only reason some bushies withdraw their support

of Bush. I guess if gas prices go down, they'll start back up supporting the Chimp? What about everything else this corrupt administration has done?

[RamboLiberal]

27. Give her the Bush open the spigots quote from campaign 2000

During the 2000 Presidential election campaign, Gov. George W. Bush promised to take on the OPEC cartel on behalf of American consumers. Bush said:

“I think the president ought to get on the phone with the OPEC cartel and say, ‘We expect you to open your spigots.’ … The president of the United States must jawbone OPEC members to lower the price.”

On the campaign trail in 2000, Bush spokesman Scott McClellan cited rising gas prices as an example of “failed leadership,” contending that if elected, Bush would support a government investigation of higher gas prices.

http://www.house.gov/georgemiller/press/rel33004.html

I seem to remember when he said this gas prices were in the $1.60 - $1.70 range.

[rman]

28. "greedy oil men" - well, it's a start

You are now at the entrance of the rabit hole.

[FreedomAngel82]

29. Yep

She'll be surprised when she finds that the high gas prices are going to be here for a while. It's always like that isn't it? It doesn't matter until they're personally effected. "Compassionate conservative" my butt.

[tabasco]

32. Anybody that watched the debates and still voted for Bush...

deserves to get screwed.

Unfortunately, the rest of us are getting plowed too.

[Love Bug]

33. She says that now, but

Come '08 when Bush isn't running what's going to be her tune then? I suspect most of these disenchanted ex-shrub lovers I keep hearing about are still going to vote repuke in '08 because it'll be for someone else. They'll conveniently forget what the repuke party has done to them.