Posted on July 23 at 1:20 a.m. (Suggest removal)

As per regulations... companies should welcome a healthy amount.

If you don't have them, your business is then at the mercy of our political system.

That's what's happened to most industries suffering from this economy. If the mortgage industry had had decent regulations, they wouldn't have messed it up for everyone else.

The minute your guy isn't in the White House... look out, if you're not "on the list" of industries the current occupant is cozy with.

And lord help you if your industry can be affected by failures in the ones that are... especially with financial incompetents like Jr or McCain in office.

Regulations aren't all bad. They even keep our children from getting autism from Mercury poisoning... go figure.

It's time we told the Anti-Regulation wing of the Republican party that yes, we do want bridges that don't collapse, we do want levees that are maintained and properly built, we want checks on those things... we want cleaner air, fish that can be eaten during pregnancy... etc.

America has been poisoned far more than she deserves by these anti-regulation Tom Delay clones. I mean... that nut used to be an exterminator, and campaigned for office in order to re-legalize DDT (Tom thought it was "safe enough")... OK, the fools in his district elected him, but that doesn't mean we should actually turn the keys to the White House over to these loonies. A Congressional seat here or there, if the locals just have to vote on god and gays... but not the White House. Not anymore. Hopefully America has learned that these ultra-conservatives are just plain old fashioned lunatics, and can't be trusted.

On Washington: Corker: Public backs new oil drilling

Posted on July 23 at 1:06 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Summary:

Republicans can't vote for this bill because then their bosses on Wall Street and in the oil industry won't make as much money off us.

So they're using a STRAWMAN argument. Oil drilling.

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Oil drilling is a fake argument. The oil industry already isn't using 75% of the land they've got leases on for drilling. Opening up our shores to it isn't going to create more supply because the oil companies won't dig. And even if they do, it'll take a decade to create the SUPPLY Republicans are talking about.

The point isn't to help the oil industry and Wall Street screw everyone and make out like fatcats... just because Republicans think that's how supply and demand have to work.

The point is to stop these massively powerful, incredibly corrupt war criminals and power mongers FROM screwing everyone.

This is Enron all over again, and Republicans aren't going to vote to stop them.

No wonder real business-minded Republican voters are siding with Obama. The oil industry and futures trading aren't the ONLY games in America, just because Republicans are owned lock stock and barrel by them.

Texas can only mess over the real engine of our country's economy: California for so long before actual businessmen who aren't in Enron start to say enough is enough... for example. The same situation applies today to the economy, regulations on futures trading and the mortgage industry, anti-regulation Republicans... politics in general. And that's why Obama will win the election.

It's good overall business to have a Democrat in the White House. Comparing Clinton and both Bushes economies... it's not even a question.

On Washington: Corker: Public backs new oil drilling