Slog - Comments on How Congress Really Feels About CEOs and Their Lopsided Bonuses http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/how_congress_really_feels_about_ceos_and "Have 'em." Democrats have decided to allow a quarter-century ban on drilling for oil off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts to expire next week, conceding defeat in an month-long battle with the White House and Republicans set off by $4 a gallon gasoline prices this summer. Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey, D-Wis., told reporters Tuesday that a provision continuing the moratorium will be dropped this year from a stopgap spending bill to keep the government running after Congress recesses for the election. If this comes to pass, oil speculators win, as do oil companies who have been left blameless in... Copyright 2008 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:09:04 -0800 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:30:57 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Trevor Any Democratic party partisans ready to stand up and explain this?

]]> Trevor http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/how_congress_really_feels_about_ceos_and#c1148804 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/how_congress_really_feels_about_ceos_and#c1148804 Politics Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:29:28 -0800 Comment by elenchos "Speculators" are just investors.

If you don't think free markets are particularly useful, which I don't, then fine. But if you profess to believe in (have faith in, kneel before) free markets, then please stop with the demonizing of these so-called speculators.

]]> elenchos http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/how_congress_really_feels_about_ceos_and#c1148808 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/how_congress_really_feels_about_ceos_and#c1148808 Politics Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:31:38 -0800 Comment by Levislade Goddamnit, this pisses me off. I can't stand up and explain it, but I would stand up and demand that Cantwell, Murray and McDermott explain their votes if they go for this bullshit.

]]> Levislade http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/how_congress_really_feels_about_ceos_and#c1148813 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/how_congress_really_feels_about_ceos_and#c1148813 Politics Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:37:35 -0800 Comment by blank12357 I think we should take this fight to the House and Senate primaries. If its a Democrat and a Republican in a fight over a seat, I'm voting Dem no matter what. But I have no trouble going after some lazy ass, do nothing, incumbent and replacing them with an insurgent. It might take a few cycles, but it will remind the DNC who they should really be frightened of.

]]> blank12357 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/how_congress_really_feels_about_ceos_and#c1148816 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/how_congress_really_feels_about_ceos_and#c1148816 Politics Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:38:51 -0800 Comment by Original Monique The CNN artile about it state that they think there is 18 Billion barrels in the ocean.

Which would be about 2.4 years of oil for the USA.

Add in the environmental costs, how much it would cost to drill, put in oil rigs, etc...what a winning combo!

Fucking morons. Why are the democrats so spineless? WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY?!?!

]]> Original Monique http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/how_congress_really_feels_about_ceos_and#c1148818 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/how_congress_really_feels_about_ceos_and#c1148818 Politics Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:42:22 -0800 Comment by Bellevue Ave speculators are just investors with money to lose.

]]> Bellevue Ave http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/how_congress_really_feels_about_ceos_and#c1148831 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/how_congress_really_feels_about_ceos_and#c1148831 Politics Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:52:53 -0800 Comment by Bellevue Ave OM, theyre spineless because they have constituents that disagree with you across the country.

]]> Bellevue Ave http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/how_congress_really_feels_about_ceos_and#c1148833 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/how_congress_really_feels_about_ceos_and#c1148833 Politics Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:54:47 -0800 Comment by John Bailo
3 percent of the people own 84 percent of the stuff.

]]> John Bailo http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/how_congress_really_feels_about_ceos_and#c1148914 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/how_congress_really_feels_about_ceos_and#c1148914 Politics Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:14:37 -0800 Comment by UnCommonSense Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey, D-Wis.

The name says it all.

]]> UnCommonSense http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/how_congress_really_feels_about_ceos_and#c1148974 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/how_congress_really_feels_about_ceos_and#c1148974 Politics Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:58:13 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle @8 - 0.1 percent of the people own 81 percent of the stuff, Comrade John Bailo.

Didn't they teach you that at Socialism School when you became a Republican and therefore a Socialist?

And don't forget 99 percent of the people get to pay when the 0.1 percent make a boo boo and might otherwise LOSE CAPITAL (losses are part of that darned thing called Capitalism that you Republican Socialists hate so very very very much).

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/how_congress_really_feels_about_ceos_and#c1149014 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/how_congress_really_feels_about_ceos_and#c1149014 Politics Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:24:17 -0800 Comment by RonK, Seattle WTF? If this comes to pass, oil speculators lose. Not much, but they lose.

And what - all CEO's are oil company CEO's?

If we had a real left left, wouldn't it have more of a clue?

]]> RonK, Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/how_congress_really_feels_about_ceos_and#c1149057 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/how_congress_really_feels_about_ceos_and#c1149057 Politics Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:30:57 -0800