Oilgarchy, or, The Grand Oil Party
You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life
See that girl, watch that scene, dig in the dancing queen
--Dancing Queen, ABBA
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First, we can almost promise you never to run ABBA lyrics again. Next, we loved this cartoon showing our own Governor Christ, always the bridesmaid, never the bride. Odds are on his engagement to Ms. Rome falling through the cracks. These are tough times for true love.
A feeling of disquiet surrounds the choice of Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin as McCain's running mate.
She is being billed as a "regular guy" (provided your regular guy is pro-NRA, pro-life, Big Oil, pro-war, pro-drilling, pro-Bush) concerned with the everyday woes of the average American, but Ranger believes neither party addresses the real strifes facing the average taxpaying citizen. There are not Two Americas as John Edwards contended, between his long thrust and crossover series with his sharp little bayonet. There are three Americas: The Republicans, the Democrats, and the rest of us not clearly represented by either party.
We The People allow this. McCain claims he will rejuvenate the GOP with honor and integrity, but what is the motivation behind elevating an unknown short-term governor to the VP slot? Our own Vice President Cheney may have had a hand in this selection.
What we do know about Alaska connections:
A feeling of disquiet surrounds the choice of Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin as McCain's running mate.
She is being billed as a "regular guy" (provided your regular guy is pro-NRA, pro-life, Big Oil, pro-war, pro-drilling, pro-Bush) concerned with the everyday woes of the average American, but Ranger believes neither party addresses the real strifes facing the average taxpaying citizen. There are not Two Americas as John Edwards contended, between his long thrust and crossover series with his sharp little bayonet. There are three Americas: The Republicans, the Democrats, and the rest of us not clearly represented by either party.
We The People allow this. McCain claims he will rejuvenate the GOP with honor and integrity, but what is the motivation behind elevating an unknown short-term governor to the VP slot? Our own Vice President Cheney may have had a hand in this selection.
What we do know about Alaska connections:
- The husband of the governor is a productions operator for BP.
- U.S. Senator Ted Stevens (AK) was indicted by a federal grand jury on seven counts of failing to report gifts received from oil field contractors.
- VP Cheney writes the Alaska legislature on Stevens' behalf, bringing illicit if not illegal pressure on the legislature to favor Stevens' proposals.
- Cheney's role was ignored in Stevens' trial.
What are the linkages between:
- Governor of Alaska and Cheney
- Cheney and McCain
- Cheney and BP
- Sarah Palin and Ted Stevens
If these connections are explored and drilled, Ranger bets we'll hit oil.
Labels: cheney and stevens linkage, john mccain, sarah palin
posted by rangeragainstwar at 2:14 PM
17 Comments:
I'm not surprised in the least, Jim. No sir, not one bit.
This Alaskan blogger gives some real insight into VP candidate Palin.
http://mudflats.wordpress.com/
Jim,
After reading my above post I guess I should change it to say
this Alaskan blogger gives us some MORE insight into VP candidate Palin before my butchery of the English language gets me into more trouble on this site.
You piece of dogshit. You disgust me. I'm going to break my foot off in your ass.
I always knew you would end up a turncoat.
sarah palin makes wedding plans
i hope jesus will forgive me.
i have sinned.
:::steps over baby troll in room::::::::Ahem...you know Jim, I hope it is oil we hit.
Lately all those wells seem to get is something better applied to strawberry plants!
Oh yea, this bitch is dirty, just the way Cheney and the GOOPERS like em.
My guess is that after eight years of the dirtiest administration since Harding's - or possibly Grant's - the GOP would be hard put to find someone NOT messily in the pockets of one or another of the GOP's political padrones; Big Oil, Big Jesus, Big Pharma, Big Guns...
This gal appears to be pretty much your standard issue Alaska Republican, meaning she's got all the goofy quirks that a small population in a marginal environment develops. It's like going all the way out to some bohick puppy mill to find yourself a gun dog. No guarantees but you should probably expect to come up with something less than a world class retreiver.
A nice little tidbit about the brand new entitled-to-wear-dresses America's mayor type: one of her first acts AS mayor of the dinky little town was to ask the librarian how she could ban books that offended some of her constituents. She threatened to fire said librarian for non-cooperation; librarian did resign. So yeah, she is just a terrific example of how America is supposed to work.
tw,
Thanks for the link confirming her insanity. If those two get elected, maybe we could have a good old fashioned book burning/marshmallow roast.
D'ya think any of us would be invited to the shindig?
MB,
That's really not so heretical. This doesn't measure us to your usual standards of excellence ;)
labrys,
Thanks for the book burning bit. Just horrendous. Gawd, 19th century, here we come!
FDChief,
Right on, both on the puppy mill observation and the (s)oiled hands observation.
Ranger,
I'd be delighted to only fall back into the 19th century. I think these asshats have in mind something more like the 11th century, except they aren't handing the whip to the Pope.
Ranger, you might want to check out the IP adress of the insane troll you seem to have contracted and check it up against police records. Theres a certain bluntness to it that worries me.
Palin also has claimed that the invasion of Iraq was planned by God. Oh, boy!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080903/ap_on_el_pr/cvn_palin_iraq_war
fnord,
Thank you for your concern. I know his name and location, but the police cannot move at this point, so he remains simply an annoyance. Best not to feed the trolls,
jim
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