Well, you’ve got BOTH, haven’t you,  guntotinganglion…...?!?!

The gas price is a function of the war price…...

The war is a function of a failing economy….

The economy is a function of failed policies, uhh.

The business section of my local newspaper made the prediction of gasoline prices of $4.00 a gallon by spring on February 24,2008. That same week it stated that for the first time in 4 years that employers in America had to let people off their jobs in this country.

DO THEY REALLY BELIEVE THAN AND DO THEY THINK THAT AMERICANS ARE THAT STUPID?

Americans have lost more jobs in the last 7+ years than were created. Bush claims he made misc. number of jobs, yet fails to realize or state that for each job he takes credit for hundreds of others have been lost. The news article was another lie put out by this administration. I know lots of people who have lost their jobs, been downsized, business has closed, jobs relocated out of America and the jobs that may have been created often don’t pay enough or are only part time and not enough to provide for a family. Bush probably thinks no jobs have been lose in the last 4 years until this January also, along with $4.00 gas.

One reason I feel that Dole lost his bid for president years ago was when asked how much was a gallon of milk and a loaf of bread cost and how long would it take a person earning minimum wage to earn that, after taxes, he didn’t know. Repukes have always been out of touch with what real people live on $$ and reality wise. Dimmos are not much better sometimes also.

GW Bush has his head in the sand when it comes to the US economy.  Don’t let his idiotic comment pass by well i wasn’t aware of the gas prices going to 4$ a gallon.  He knows….but all he knows more about is war and those politics…god forbid should he committ money to the US!  I can hardly wait to see him out of office!

w knows exactly what is going on in the economy and especially with oil and gas. The prices are going higher and higher and the industries he has protected and helped to make RECORD PROFITS are just rolling in more and more profits everyday. What other absolutely direct evidence does any knuckle head need to prove that the corporations have set themselves aside from this country so as to keep the profits, loose the accountability and control the government the way they want it. How can anyone that is still ‘hooked, lined and sinkered’ by tv not realize that those ads by the energy companies are made to make the masses ‘think’ they ,the corporations, are compassionate and caring for the people of the USofA are just a pack of lies, crappy propaganda?
Making people think they are busting their balls trying to come up with more and different kinds of energy to keep the people comfortable here in this country. Yet, no way in hell will they decide to cut their profits so people can afford to use their vehicles, heat their homes. $100 billion dollars profit is more important to those few over the needs of people hopelessly dependent on fuel for their lively hoods.
Any one got any suggestions?

We cannot afford anyone who is so clueless to represent us. To a great extent, the clueless Bush has - in effect - falsely represented the world in his lies, distortions, and suppressions of true global warming data, something impacting the whole globe. Too bad the rest of the world didn’t at least have part of a vote. We never would have had the plague Bush.

$4 gas——no problem.  Cars will become more fuel efficient and soon you will purchase gasoline by the quart.  One dollar per quart is a nice round figure and sounds like the goal the gas companies were seeking unitl we have $5 gas, but that’s a nice round figure too——it has a ring to it!!!

Cyrena:

In response to Marie’s comment (“His White House all but ignored the threats of a looming terrorist attack in the months before 9/11”), you said, “Well, he didn’t really know anything, because his White House didn’t ignore it, they helped PLAN it, and just didn’t tell him.”

Actually, he DID know about it, as proven by his (perhaps accidental) statement that he saw (not just knew about) the first plane hit the north tower - which no one else who was not there personally could possibly have seen, since the first footage of that crash (by the Naudet Brothers) didn’t surface until a couple of days later.  So he had to have seen it on some c/c tv or other device set up by the planners.

However, the planners (Cheney & Co.) only told him what he “needed to know” so that his “plausible deniability” could be maintained.  This is also the reason why Bush refused to meet with the 9/11 Commission without Cheney there.

Peace.

Bush has demonstrated for eight years his inability to grasp the magnitude of the presidency and the ordeal of human strife. His association to reality is in the cartoons he watches on TV. He is no more in tune to what is real for Americans as my pet frog.
With Reagan, Alzheimer’s was to blame, what blame will it be for Bush’s inadequacies? It was/is these inadequacies that gave Cheney and Rove the power they have.

I don’t believe our Dear Leader on anything, especially this.  He knows because he was instrumental in making it happen; he knows because all his buddies who are raking in billions because of it probably can’t help but talk about it when they get together.

The administration is only hoping that they can hold the economy together with string and sticking plaster until the next President takes office (i don’t think they’ve planned for a Republican President).  They know that the American people are ignorant and gullible.  They figure that if the worst of times come during a Democratic administration then the Democrats will get the blame.

All this, of course, assumes that Dear Leader plans to allow a peaceful transition of power.  The other possibility is the worst of times happening before November and instigating all those new continuation of government plans that he’s put together so he can be “President for Life” of the Democratic People’s Republic of ‘Merica.

His plans are nearly complete…the fondest dreams that arise in the hissing laboratory of Dick Cheney’s wishes are near fruition.  They can’t stop now, they’re almost there.

•  “The financial pages warn almost daily of an economy that may be downshifting into a real crisis. But if past performance is to be a guide, Bush himself won’t go into crisis mode until it is way too late.”

Bush NEVER goes into ‘crisis mode’ even when it’s way too late. For HIM, none of this is a crisis. When a crisis comes along, GW is likely to be reading to some 4th graders in Florida, (or were they retarded 5th graders…wasn’t the book something like “My Pet Goat?) Come on…that’s kindergarten stuff. Or like his ‘conference’ last week, he’ll do a slide show of his trip to Africa. What crisis?

•  “His White House all but ignored the threats of a looming terrorist attack in the months before 9/11. “

Well, he didn’t really know anything, because his White House didn’t ignore it, they helped PLAN it, and just didn’t tell him.

•  “The president’s response to the urgent entreaties from weather forecasters that a killer storm of potentially historic proportion was approaching the Gulf Coast was a shrug—and even after Katrina hit, Bush seemed to be clueless about the depth of devastation and human suffering.”

Marie, he wasn’t so much ‘clueless’ as CARE-less! IOW, he doesn’t CARE about any of that human suffering, or the devastation, no matter what the ‘depth’!! By the time he got around to finally saying something public ally, 4 or 5 days after the hurricane hit, the very first thing he said, was this: “Americans have GOT to understand that we have lost the capacity to produce gasoline.” Yep, that was the first in the first paragraph of his speech, when he finally got around to addressing the nation, several days after Katrina.

THAT was the crisis for him, because at that point, he must have somehow imagined that there may have been some damage to all of the oil collection spots in the Gulf. There wasn’t of course, but it was a good excuse for Halliburton, Exxon-Mobile, and the rest of his corporate dynasty to quadruple their billions in profit.

•  “....economic crisis—that is brewing on his watch.”

Actually, the economic crisis is ‘brewing’ on his watch, because HE is the master brewer!! It has been ‘his watch’ that has CREATED the economic crises. It’s been ‘brewing’ for over 7 years!!

And, it’s not like it’s an ‘accident’ or ‘poor planning’. It was supposed to work this way. There is no ‘economic’ crisis for his dynasty. He and his buddies are fine. Matter of fact, things have never been better!! Cheney moved all of Halliburton’s stolen money to Dubai at least 2 years ago, and there’s no reason to believe that all of the others haven’t done the same. That’s why GB doesn’t have a clue about the price of gas. They’ve long since converted the stolen trillions to some other currency.

Nope…no crisis here for GW, or his puppet masters, and nobody else even matters.