O'Donnell walks out of CNN interview
(CNN) - Christine O'Donnell, former Delaware GOP Senate candidate, walked off the set of CNN's "Piers Morgan Tonight" Wednesday when asked about her views on sexual abstinence and gay marriage.
"I'm not talking about policies. I'm not running for office," O'Donnell said. "Ask Michele Bachmann what she thinks.
When Morgan asked her why she was being "weird" about answering questions on her own statements, as well as issues she addresses in her new book, "Troublemaker," O'Donnell fired back, saying she only wanted to talk about tea party principles outlined in her book.
"That's why I agreed to come on your show. That's what I want to talk about," O'Donnell said. "I'm not being weird. You're being a little rude.
Bachmann: I'll bring back $2 gas
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- President Michele Bachmann has a promise: $2 gas.
"Under President Bachmann you will see gasoline come down below $2 a gallon again," Bachmann told a crowd Tuesday in South Carolina. "That will happen."
Sure, politicians promise all kinds of things on the campaign trail. But Bachmann, a leading contender for the 2012 Republican nomination, is wading into truly tricky territory.
The price Americans pay at the pump is tied to the crude oil market -- a global system largely beyond the reach of Washington.
It's certainly true that prices -- now about $3.50 a gallon on average -- have risen since President Obama took office.
"The day that the president became president gasoline was $1.79 a gallon," Bachmann said. "Look what it is today."
Of course, that's not the full story…
"That was in the 4th inning of the greatest recession of our lifetime," said Tom Kloza, chief oil analyst at the Oil Price Information Service.
During recessions, demand for gasoline plummets as trucks pull off the road, companies cut back on travel and laid off workers drive fewer miles
“"You have to be careful what you wish for because the recipe for cheap prices these days is economic disaster," Kloza said…“
Since early 2009, the economy has recovered somewhat and demand for crude has risen. It has even spiked in the developing world -- especially in China, India and South America.
Kloza said that increased crude demand is the principal driver behind higher gas prices.
"We're going to have to recognize the rest of the world has this increasing appetite for oil," he said. "If we go below $2 a gallon, it probably means there has been a lot of wealth loss and we are in a deflationary period."
Cain says Obama impeachment would be 'a great thing'
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(CNN) – Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain said it would be "great" to impeach the president, but that the Democratic controlled Senate would prevent such action.
On a conference call with bloggers Tuesday night, the former Godfather's Pizza CEO called the health care law and the Obama administration's stance over the Defense of Marriage Act impeachable offenses.
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"The president is supposed to uphold the laws of this nation … and to tell the Department of Justice not to uphold the Defense of Marriage Act is a breach of his oath."
Rick Perry, global warming and those durn scientists
Feels pretty cool to me! (Charles Dharapak - ASSOCIATED PRESS)I’m glad Rick Perry is here to tell us these things.
Global warming, or climate change, it seems, is a hoax propagated by malignant scientists.
Rick Perry will have none of it. It’s, he said Wednesday in New Hampshire, “a scientific theory that has not been proven.” In his book, Fed Up! he called it “all one contrived phony mess that is falling apart under its own weight.”
Cassi Creek: So much opportunity!
Did Ms. O’Donnell truly think that any talk show host not shilling for Fox News would want to help her promote a ghost written book of teavangelist propaganda? Does she honestly believe she will ever be considered a serious political candidate? She’s doomed to be recalled only as a dabbler in witchery.
Mr. Perry is just another in the string of GOP/teavangelists who have no ability to understand the language and methods of scientific research. A short walk through a good dictionary might help if he, and others like him, actually read anything other than financial pages and sports sections. But science is hard to understand. It has lots of scary features such as algebra, trigonometry, calculus, and other things discovered by people from Europe and places that don’t teach creationism or consider the bible and Koran as reliable resources for geology and biology. The only use for science in the teavangelist world is to find new oil and gas deposits so that the corporate polluters can add more contamination to our water and air, increase our CO2 output and give the corporate pseudo-“scientists” more money to spend on propaganda denying their contribution to global warming.
Mr. Cain is amazing in his ability to overlook the role he has been assigned for the role he believes he is filling. He may have done well in business but is decidedly lacking in his knowledge of “treason.”
“Treason was specifically defined in the United States Constitution, the only crime so defined. Article III Section 3 delineates treason as follows:
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.”
Directing the justice department to ignore violations of the DOM law hardly measures up. I have yet to see any legislation defining homosexuals as enemies of the state. Such declarations by various religious demagogues and hate mongers do not carry legal status. Mr. Cain is engaging in the standard GOP/teavangelist practice that began with the Clinton election, attempting to overturn the legal selection of a POTUS by means of trumped-up impeachment charges. It didn’t work for the Gingrich mob, didn’t work for the anti-Bush II mob, and won’t work for the teavangelists.
Ms. Bachmann now promises to deliver gasoline at a price of <$2.00/gallon. She may come to regret that promise. Ms. Bachmann might well bring about $2.00 or less/gallon gasoline if elected. However, since only the very wealthy will have any money to use for discretionary items such as food, medicine, and housing, it will be of no benefit beyond a historical footnote. Gasoline at that price would indicate that the world’s economy had been gutted and destroyed. Even Palin hasn’t been stupid enough to make such a ridiculous promise. As much as I would like to see such relatively low gasoline prices, I’m not eager to see the worldwide unemployment and economic turmoil that would reduce the globe down to one shattered and splintered third-world planet.
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