Interesting. I received my weekly email from John Kerry asking for money to take over the U.S. Senate and it had a glaring omission: Rick “The Shameless One” Noriega was no longer listed. Instead, Sen. Kerry listed Al Franken of Minnesota, Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, Mark Begich of Alaska and Jeff Merkley of Oregon as the candidates being promoted.
After reading the latest “policy” position from The Shameless One, I think I understand why. Is this guy nuts? He actually said:
“We must have a bold vision and move toward energy independence. We can’t rely on what Mr. Cornyn says — that somehow we’re going to drill our way out. To say that would lower fuel prices is disingenuous. We can’t even get that oil for seven or eight years.”
Not only did he say that, he said it in West Texas. Yeah, that’ll pick up a few votes. Even worse is this:
Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Rick Noriega has said several times this week that the solution to high gasoline prices is to drill for more oil in Iraq, not in pristine American wilderness or coastal areas.
Why is that worse? Because The Shameless One has based his entire campaign on yanking out troops out of Iraq immediately. Now he wants to take their oil? How are we going to do that without our troops? And is he now saying that he would support a military invasion over oil?
But wait! His campaign is saying he was just joking!
“He was clearly joking,” Noriega spokeswoman Holly Shulman said this morning.
Oh really? Then why did he repeat this proposal 4 times? Does this sound like a joke?
“Let’s go drill in Iraq right now, where we have had our sons and our daughters spilling their blood and we are sitting on those oilfields,” he told a caller on the Midland station’s Morning Drive program.
“Why are we going to use our … limited resources that we have control over, within our own nation, vs. what we are sitting on [in] these oil fields over there?”
Some joke, eh? He also wants to make Texas as crowded as New York City - forget drill here, drill now, pay less, The Shameless One wants you to move closer to work!
On the Midland radio program, he advocated conservation and predicted people would “start moving closer to their workplace.”
Does that mean we should also take Sheryl Crow’s advice and use one sheet of toilet paper?
Sheesh, this guy should have stayed in his protected state rep district. Letting him roam the streets is very enlightening, isn’t it? Check out his energy policy:
“We must make a serious effort to invest in clean, alternative, renewable sources of energy including wind, solar, geothermal, and biomass.”
That’s fine and dandy but don’t you find it strange the he doesn’t mention oil or gas? In Texas? Methinks he is already processing some biomass.
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BigJolly,
Do you think that we can drill ourselves out of this problem? If so, please explain why.
Vic,
We’ve gone over that repeatedly. Yes, of course we can drill ourselves out of the problem. You guys just don’t want to recognize that. That would give us another 100+ years to focus on alternative energy.
The market will correct itself, we’ll have lower prices, other countries can continue to grow, the world population will be better off, new energy sources will be perfected, etc.
You know this but want us to suffer for political reasons.
I notice that he didn’t mention neuckelear either.
Ricky N. is definitley a joke. Vic…saying we can’t drill our way out of this is like saying a starving person can’t eat his/her way out of hunger.
#3 rastus
It’s “nukuler”
#5 - Thanks. I always have trouble with that word.
Rick, your campaign obviously needs my help so here is my “Top Ten” list of captions you should put with this campaign poster:
1) See, I told you they could stack “it” this high.
2) Darn, I didn’t do a very good con job on these people.
3) Can the DELETED vote, yet??
4) Yeah, this is my “DELETED” grin, do you like it??
5) I thought I was running in a safe district.
6) What do you mean you don’t take me serious?
7) Kerry is a “flip/flopper” so he’ll come back to me later.
9) How come LULAC isn’t supporting me??
10) Well, at least Barbara from the land of “fruits and nuts” is still supporting me.
Here, Rick, see if these help.
The solution to high gas prices should have started 15 years ago. Every day we delay make the problem worse.
Why are you receiving emails from John Kerry?
#1, we can drill ourselves into a better position than where we are now. Anyone who took a basic economics class knows that both an increase in supply with no change in demand reduces the cost of the product. We may not be energy independent, but we’ll be in a better position.
You don’t?
#9 cajun
I posted a couple of fairly lengthy comments saying basically that on the OC thread.
I think the photo is a perfect graphic for the _ _ ithead that Noriega has demonstrated himself to be.
Abot drilling and coal and nuclear, let’s do it.
It should’ve been done 30 yrs. ago.
The democrats as usual have no plan, no idea, nothing! They are against everything. They say we need new technology, yes! I agree! But this also takes time and should have been tackled years ago.
Both parties are at fault and we’ll suffer Big Time for their mistakes. We have run out of time.
Inflation is up, gasoline, food, electricity. It all will impact the economy.
What else is new?
I wish that John Cornyn would raise a lot of Heck, get up there on TV and tell it like it is. He has to do something to live up to that “BIG JOHN” TV ad. Do you remember the NRA ad with Charlton Heston
waving his rifle? that was very effective, maybe he can do something like that.
Sadly though, we can’t expect Sen. Hutchison to step up to the front, or even Rick Perry.
Perfect!
If anybody is curious as to what the “DELETED” items in #7 were referring to, just in case you couldn’t figure it out yet, they are
#3 refers to those practicing Olympic swimmers from south of the border.
#4 refers to the “dung”face grin that Noreiga is showing to the voters.
Sorry, HAL I didn’t mean to offend anybody. It’s just like those e-mails in the sheriff’s office, we know it’s humor that can be taken the wrong way if you want to. Privately we all use these terms all the time but “PC” wise, it is unacceptable. But in the sheriff’s office case, it was with taxpayer paid computers on the taxpayer’s dime and that is totally unacceptable.
Heard on the radio that a solar project has been put on hold because the proper environmental impact studies have not been completed. Estimates are for a two-year delay.
These BANANA’s want everyone to live as forest creatures, but don’t clue in to the damage to the environment that would result from their wishes coming true. Some of the worst places you’d ever want to be are the hippie camps in the Pacific NW; they’re rat-infested trash heaps.
#11 great minds think alike…
There is nothing we possess or touch in our society today that is not connected to oil. Foolish libs just don’t recognize that. Everything delivered everywhere comes to use through the use of fossil fuels, lubricants, road material, plastics, chemicals, agricultural products, and all the machinery to make all those things, the machinery that makes the machinery, and the machinery that gets the raw materials right out of the ground.
Unless liberals are willing to run naked in the woods and only eat dead roots, they have zero credibility.
However that is what elitist liberals would have us do while they live like
this.
Liberals never want solutions.
Perhaps we should change his name to Carmen Noriega, and put this on his head.
#20 b45
Not enough fruit on it to go with that goober grin he’s got.
NativeAmerican - more fruits and nuts!
The way I see it, Rick’s plan proves the hypocrisy of the left. There are people saying that we’re in Iraq for oil, and now Noriega wants us out so that we can drill. It’s already one thing that they’re screaming “We need to rid us of our dependency of foreign oil.” It’s another that Mr. Noriega doesn’t want us to drill HERE but THERE.
Funny how things work over there, huh?