Red Hat Blue Hat Podcast 12: Democratic National Convention Analysis
The twelfth installment of Red Hat Blue Hat featured Mike Allen, Shawn Collins, Todd Crawford, Sam Harrelson, and Tim Jones.
This installment focused on the Democratic National Convention with a discussion on Hillary Clinton’s speech, Joe Biden at VP candidate, the skill of Bill Clinton’s oratory, and lack thereof from Nancy “Can We Drill Your Brain?” Pelosi.
Also, there was talk of the likely VP pick for John McCain… Hutchison, Lieberman, Pawlenty, Romney, somebody else?
Then, we moved on to some geek talk and the uses of Twitter, indenti.ca and other tools that can be harnessed by political campaigns.
We wound up on the uses of social media by each campaign, as well as which is less in touch, and whether any President is actually in touch.
Episode 12 runs 68 minutes, but we have no plans to recreate ‘68.
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Do Democrats Care About the Gas Crisis?
Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi say they want change - they want to fix the energy crisis.
But if that’s the case, I think Obama out to interrupt Nancy’s R&R to hell her to bring Congress back to begin a process of getting an off-shore drilling bill across the floor of the House.
If you have no idea what I’m talking about, that’s because the media ignored it.
Basically, Republicans wanted to get things moving on an off-shore drilling bill, and Nancy Pelosi abruptly closed down the House of Representatives for summer break.
They won’t be back until September 8.
I guess Nancy has more pressing issues like her tanking book sales.
Obama - don’t you hold any sway with the Speaker of the House? We need help.
Nobody Came to the Party in the Democrat House
Nancy Pelosi was historic in her ascension as the first woman Speaker of the House. Too bad her story doesn’t end there.
Since then, it’s been pretty much downhill.
Back on April 24, 2006, Nancy Pelosi stated, “Democrats have a commonsense plan to help bring down skyrocketing gas prices by cracking down on price gouging, rolling back the billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies, tax breaks and royalty relief given to big oil and gas companies, and increasing production of alternative fuels.”
No commonsense plan has been revealed since Nancy and her fellow Democrats took over Congress.
Actually, nothing of note has happened after all of this time.
Not surprisingly, approval ratings for Congress are at an all time low - in the single digits!
So anyway, Nancy Pelosi had a new book published two days ago, “Know Your Power: A Message to America’s Daughters.”
It’s currently ranked at #986 in Amazon. In other words, literally nobody is buying the story she’s trying to sell this time around.
Is it any wonder Obama’s poll numbers are slipping.
The American people understand that when all you can deliver are “just words” everybody loses.
Update on 8/1/08: the book has dropped to #1,429 on Amazon.com.
Democrats Refuse to Help Lower Gas Prices
President Bush took a step to deal with soaring gas prices Monday when he lifted an executive ban on offshore drilling that his stood since his father was president.
Since then, the price of a barrel of oil has continually dropped. This is seen by many as a market response for the over-inflated oil.
Quite simply, if we don’t rely as much on foreign oil, they have less leverage in driving up prices.
Anyhow, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stands firmly against offshore drilling, and unfortunately, the move by Bush will do nothing unless Congress acts as well.
Pelosi and other Democrats are refusing to budge on the grounds that offshore drilling is environmentally unsafe.
However, the Oil in the Water report from the National Academy of Sciences contradicts the environmental argument against drilling offshore.
According to the report, the following factors result in oil seepage into the oceans:
- 1% off shore platforms
- 32% consumers (boats, jet skis, etc.)
- 4% transportation (oil tankers)
- 63% natural seepage – cracks in the earth
Therefore, 99% of seepage is “natural” or essentially unavoidable, and the off shore platforms are not the problem.
Additionally, the U.S. Coast Guard reports the following volumes of U.S. Offshore Oil Spills in the past 38 years:
- 3.6 million barrels from 1970-1980
- 440,000 barrels from 1990-2000
- 1,000 barrels from 2000-2004
What can we infer from this? I’d say it’s safer to drill offshore and pipe it on shore versus having tankers sail all over the world.
By the way, for anybody who is keeping score, Pelosi stated back in April 2006:
“Democrats have a commonsense plan to help bring down skyrocketing gas prices by cracking down on price gouging, rolling back the billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies, tax breaks and royalty relief given to big oil and gas companies, and increasing production of alternative fuels.”
More than two years later, this “commonsense plan” hasn’t been shared.
Meanwhile, gas prices continue to rise. When the Democrats took control of congress in January 2007, the average price per gallon of gas was $2.33.
Now the average is more than $4.00 per gallon.
Is there any wonder that the Congressional approval ratings are at an historic low of 14%?
Obama and Pelosi: Imperfect Together
On April 24, 2006, Nancy Pelosi stated, “Democrats have a commonsense plan to help bring down skyrocketing gas prices by cracking down on price gouging, rolling back the billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies, tax breaks and royalty relief given to big oil and gas companies, and increasing production of alternative fuels.”
More than two years later, and that commonsense plan still hasn’t been revealed.
Meanwhile, gas prices continue to rise. When the Democrats took control of congress in January 2007, the average price per gallon of gas was $2.33.
When I filled up yesterday, I paid more than $4.00 per gallon.
The Pelosi gas promise, which helped Democrats sweep into power, was just another myth. Playing on the hopes and fears of people for political gain.
Sad and typical.
Think about that when Obama promises all sorts of change.
Read the press release from Nancy Pelosi on April 24, 2006 at http://www.house.gov/pelosi/press/releases/April06/Rubberstamp.html
RedHatBlueHat 2: Et tu, Brute?
The second episode of the RedHatBlueHat political podcast featured Todd Crawford, Tim Jones, Shawn Collins, Mike Allen and Sam Harrelson.
This week we touched on Obama’s favorite new book, “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception,” by former Bush loyalist, Scott McClellan.
We also talked about gas prices, how to bring them down, and wondered why Nancy Pelosi’s plan to solve the gas issue, touted by her in 2006, still hasn’t materialized.
Then we moved on to the Democrat mess in Florida and Michigan and whether every vote will count.
Plus, some speculation over VP candidates for both parties.
Then there was a chat on the impact of Hillary making the RFK assassination comment last week, and the way the mainstream media neglected to mention Obama’s allusion to a Hillary assassination.
Lastly, we touched on the need to lower spending by the Federal government, and Obama’s latest gaffe regarding his “uncle” liberating Auschwitz.
Episode 2 runs an hour and features the new Obama campaign theme song.