New Ad Targets Graham

By Soft Sigh From Hell on November 16th, 2009 at 7:54 am

Tarring and feathering prominent Republicans is just fine with me. That other Republicans are doing it simply adds to the amusement. I don’t think you are going to get to the rail part though.

By Sunshine on November 16th, 2009 at 8:54 am

Will – the betting pool of lunch politicos at Groucho’s is up to $100…so let me collect my winnings by telling us how much this group (or some other energy group) is paying you each month to bash Graham. I mean, really – you get the advance copy of every ad. You’ve gone from shilling for Haley every other day to slamming Graham and passing on rumors about him faster than “SC 2″ on I-26. So come clean…how much are they paying you? $1500 a month retainer…or did you play hard to get until they offered $2500?

If we’re all going to pay for it every time we fill up at our local Exxon, don’t we have a right to know how much of our $2.49 per gallon you’re getting?

By fitsnews on November 16th, 2009 at 9:17 am

Sunshine,

Despite your lunch at Groucho’s reference, you are obviously new here.

http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/10/22/everybody-and-their-brother-is-paying-will-folks/

BTW, Sic will be at Groucho’s for lunch today following a court appearance this morning.

Look for him … he’ll be in the blue Peyton Manning jersey.

-FITS

By Liberty For Me on November 16th, 2009 at 10:34 am

Sunshine….Get educated please.People who spout off about issues that they completely dont understand are so annoying.

By Liberaltarian on November 16th, 2009 at 12:40 pm

Here is a common sense (i.e. unpaid for) translation of this article:
There is a new television ad attacking our Senator Lindsey Graham for his attempt to protect our families from global climate change through a plan based upon free market principles (known as “cap and trade”) to reduce pollution emissions by requiring those mega-companies that create large amounts of air pollution take responsibility for their actions by paying their fair share of the costs that pollution inflicts on you and me. The air in our atmosphere does not belong to polluters; it belongs to “we the people”. If a coal burning company wants to dump poison into my air, it should take responsibility for that pollution; it should have to pay me for damaging my air. We the people also have the right to tell these mega-companies NOT to dump any pollution at all into our air, but Senator Graham is not going for the extreme, only the moderate “you spew it, you pay for it” approach.
Obviously, this dishonest attack ad is paid for by the very companies that currently pollute, free of charge, the air you and your family breathe.
As a bonus, by encouraging alternative clean fuels, the cap and trade bill is a jobs bill that will help us with our current unemployment mess. Unless you support pollution and unemployment, support Sen. Graham.

By SC-Claim on November 16th, 2009 at 6:04 pm

Liberal…
So….ok, no one likes polluters. But no one likes being cold or not having fuel to heat their homes or cook their meals or having a sustainable energy to fuel a productive economy. Solar and wind are nice energies to harness – but for solar panels or wind turbines to make a modest dent in energy production requirements, you’d have to have huge farms of wind turbines and solar fields.

Nuclear is an option, but that is apparently taboo because of the pesky problem of radioactive waste.

I like lakes for hydro-electric, but I also like trees, mountains and places where wildlife can roam and people can live.

Natural gas is good, but we’ll have to explore and produce a lot more than we currently produce and we’ll need to build more efficient means of transporting vast quantities of natural gas to our power plants. And speaking of the power plants, to go exclusively natural gas, utilities will have to spend billions to refit …and pass the cost to you and me.

We could harness methane from waste dumps. But we’ll have to build larger and nastier landfills to get that methane production on-line. No one wants to live next to a nasty methane producing landfill.

So…what kind of a cheap, easily available fuel of which do we have a vast abundance? Coal. And coal is the fuel that the Cap and Trade targets as a demonic fuel that needs to be taxed out of use or made so expensive to use, that companies that use coal will be bankrupted.

Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t care to have all my forests striped by people looking for wood to heat their homes or cook their food when the feel-really-good-about-ourselves energy is not good enough to supply our energy supply needs. Whether people like it or not, coal, natural gas and nuclear are our best options for energy production, but are the Cap and Trade fuels targeted to be eliminated as energy fuels.

By Ron on November 16th, 2009 at 9:25 pm

Will, the following is the RNC Resolution referenced above. Thanks for your efforts, Will on in support of a more conservative government both in Columbia and Washington. I PROUDLY SUPPORT FITSNEWS.COM

RNC RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING
THE DEMOCRATS’ MARCH TOWARD SOCIALISM
“WHEREAS, the American Heritage Dictionary defines socialism as a system of social organization in
which the means of producing and distributing goods is owned by a centralized government that often
plans and controls the economy; and
WHEREAS, the Democratic Party has outlined their plans to nationalize the banking, financial and
healthcare industries; and
WHEREAS, the Democratic Party has proposed massive government bailouts for the mortgage and
auto industries; and
WHEREAS, the Democratic Party has passed trillions of dollars in new government spending, all with
strings attached in order to control nearly every aspect of American life; and
WHEREAS, Newsweek reported recently, “Whether we like it or not – or even whether many people
have thought much about it or not – the numbers clearly suggest that we are headed in a more
European direction…As entitlement spending rises over the next decade, we will become even more
French;” and
WHEREAS, The Wall Street Journal reported recently, “But tucked away in the spending bill is a
change that will both reduce work and increase welfare by paying states to increase their welfare
caseloads;” and
WHEREAS, history has demonstrated that free markets and free men are the only way to prosperity
and have been the bedrock of the United States economy; and
WHEREAS, the Democratic Party seeks to expand government control of the daily lives of
Americans; and
WHEREAS, the Democratic Party and its leadership have dedicated themselves to a new taxing
objective of direct income redistribution which takes additional taxes from one group of people and
gives it in direct cash transfers to another group of people who pay no federal income taxes; and
WHEREAS, the American traditions of hard work and free enterprise are at risk as the Democratic
Party pushes our country towards European-style socialism and government control; therefore be it
RESOLVED, that we the members of the Republican National Committee recognize the Democratic
Party’s clear and obvious purpose in proposing, passing, and implementing socialist programs through
federal legislation; and be it further
RESOLVED, that we the members of the Republican National Committee recognize that the
Democratic Party is dedicated to restructuring American society along socialist ideals; and be it further
RESOLVED, that we the members of the Republican National Committee call on the American people
to urge the President, the Congress and the Democratic Party to remember what made our country
great and to stop pushing our country towards socialism and governmental control.”
Adopted by the Republican National Committee, May 20, 2009