There are an awful lot of outrageous things that people in government and politics have said recently. And I thought it might be fun to point a few of them out, and comment accordingly.
First of all, I think it’s safe to say that most Americans aren’t particularly happy with the direction that gas prices have been going in recent months. And even though they’re too high here in America, most people realize that they’re even higher in Europe – much higher.
Well, here’s what the guy President Obama appointed to be in charge of our U.S. energy policy, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal: “Somehow we need to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to European levels.”
Are you kidding? No wonder gas prices are going through the roof. No wonder there’s no push to go after more energy we have available to us here in the U.S., rather than continuing to import expensive overseas oil.
Ridiculous statement number two comes from none other than Senator Harry Reid of Nevada. Here’s what the Democratic leader in the United States Senate had to say about some long overdue cuts finally being considered in Washington: “The mean-spirited bill, H.R. 1 … eliminates the National Endowment of the Humanities [SIC] which is the reason we have in northern Nevada every January a cowboy poetry festival. Had that program not been around, the tens of thousands of people who come there every year would not exist.”
Now that’s got to be a priority – a cowboy poetry festival! What a great use of our tax dollars. And his absurd comment that but for this program, tens of thousands of people wouldn’t exist. Well, Harry, they’d still exist – they just wouldn’t be gathered (at the expense of the American taxpayer) at the cowboy poetry festival. They’d be elsewhere.
And for your enjoyment, here’s a poem I found online while researching this story:
Who said that we should cut nada.
“The budget is fine,
Let’s let cowboys rhyme,
And spend the whole enchilada.”
And finally, senior executive Ron Schiller of National Public Radio (NPR), thinking he was talking with two Muslim Brotherhood-connected men at a Georgetown restaurant made the following statement: “The current Republican Party, particularly the Tea Party, is fanatically involved in people’s personal lives and very fundamental Christian – I wouldn’t even call it Christian. It’s this weird evangelical kind of move… The Tea Party people aren’t just Islamaphobic, but really xenophobic, I mean basically they are, they believe in sort of white, middle-America, gun-toting. I mean, it’s scary. They’re seriously racist, racist people.” He concluded with “In my personal opinion, liberals today might be more educated, fair and balanced than conservatives.”
This guy really sounds fair and balanced, doesn’t he? The unfortunate thing is that if you remember how much of the mainstream press covered the Tea Party phenomenon over the last two years, you have to believe that the sentiment expressed by this guy is probably reflective of many in the mainstream press.
If you’ve heard a particularly dumb thing lately, or hear something down the road, let me know, and maybe I’ll mention it in a future blog. Thanks.
