Reuters Headline: re Bush speech-Too Little, Too Late

[leftyladyfrommo]

That's a paraphrase. But they have a huge headline over there that most experts think Bush's idea are too little, too late.

I'm really glad to see that. I saw just a little of that speech and I thought Bush actually looked a little better. That always worries me. I'm glad that people saw thru it. Anyway, I hope they saw thru it.

[Demit]

1. If Bush ever had an idea on anything, it would have died of loneliness.

[NNadir]

3. I like that locution.

[katty]

2. Reuters? headline...that's a good sign, MSM newswire artery

[leftyladyfrommo]

4. It's in really big letters.

I watched Lehrer last nite and both the Democrat and the Republican felt like that deal with the gas reserves wasn't going to do much.

Interesting: The Republican just kept stating that the high prices are due to demand. The Democrat blamed it on price gouging by the oil companies. That's a little simplified but that's the jist of it.

[killbotfactory]

5. Bush has no foresight.

Only realizing terrorism is a real threat after 9/11, for example.

[leftyladyfrommo]

6. Foresight takes a brain.

I actually am beginning to think that Bush's skull is just empty space.

Doesn't he remind you of Howdy Doody? The same face, the same ears, the same strings pulled by someone behind the screen.

[Contrary1]

7. "Experts doubt Bush gasoline plan will curb prices"

"NEW YORK (Reuters) - President George W. Bush's latest plans to fight high gasoline prices in the United States are either too limited or too late to make a difference during the upcoming summer driving season, energy analysts said on Wednesday.

With pump prices over $3 per gallon in some parts of the country, Bush said on Tuesday he would boost gasoline supplies by letting regulators relax clean fuels rules temporarily if state governors ask. He said he would free up more crude oil by delaying deliveries into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

<snip>

Other analysts noted that deliveries into the SPR for May were slated to be only 2.1 million barrels, a fraction of the roughly 300 million barrels U.S. refineries were likely to consume in May. The Bush Administration pointed to this discrepancy in 2004 when it rejected calls by Democrats to cease deliveries into the SPR to lower oil prices.


U.S. drivers should get some relief at the pump in coming weeks even without the Bush proposals, as many U.S. refineries return to normal operations after lengthy downtime for routine maintenance and repairs after hurricane damage, analysts said..."


I'll save this one for the Repubs, when Shrubbie starts gloating over how successful his plan was.

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=newsOne&storyID=2006-04-26T182119Z_01_N264940_RTRUKOC_0_US-ENERGY-GASOLINE-BUSH.xml&pageNumber=1&imageid=&cap=&sz=13