Hi Rush,

Your show is pretty funny. Please keep it up.

Thanks

Hi Monica, I see you shortened your screen/nickname to just "job1" How's Old Yeller[draft dodger] Bill doing these days?

This week saw the highest average gas price ever recorded in March -- a whopping $3.87 per gallon. That's up 4 cents from over a week ago, and 30 cents more than last year. On the West Coast, it's up to $4.23 a gallon, but no matter where you go in America, you'll feel the burn.

Meanwhile, the President is still beating the drums for his energy strategy,
which he highlighted yesterday in a visit to the Copper Mountain Solar 1
Facility in Boulder City, Nevada. Anticipating the obvious criticism -- that
his investment in the Solyndra solar plant went belly up, costing American
taxpayers $535 million -- the President mocked those who question his ideas,
saying they "lack imagination," and he turned to name calling in
order to deflect legitimate concerns about the viability of his green pipe
dream and the fact that it has not produced the jobs that he promised:

One member of Congress who shall remain unnamed called these jobs 'phony' -- called them phony jobs. I mean, think about that mindset, that attitude that says because something is new, it must not be real. If these guys were around when Columbus set sail, they'd be charter members of the Flat Earth Society.

Those who criticize the President's policies aren't opposed to new ideas. The Administration's record of burning billions in taxpayer dollars to somehow transition America to a new energy economy have not produced results that earn confidence. The American people's money is being used to offset private-sector investments and artificially prop up industries until they go bankrupt, like Solyndra, Beacon, Ener1, Abound, and so on. Only when technologies such as solar, wind, and biofuels become affordable and reliable will consumers embrace them.

While the President is out West selling his spending and tax hikes, back home
in Washington his Secretary of Energy, Steven Chu, is giving himself kudos for
a job well done. In testimony before Congress this week, Chu was asked whether he would give himself an "A minus" on controlling the cost of
gasoline. His response? "I would I say I would give myself a little higher
in that since I became Secretary of Energy, I've been doing everything I can to
get long-term solutions." For the record, this is the same Steven Chu who
said, "Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to
the levels in Europe" (which are routinely above $8 per gallon). Perhaps
in that context, he does deserve an "A."

The Obama Administration is overseeing a sharp decline in fossil fuel
production (coal, oil, and natural gas) on federal lands, which recently hit its
lowest point in nine years. Those actions include withdrawing areas offered for 77 oil and gas leases in Utah, canceling lease sales in the Western Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic coast, delaying exploration off the coast of Alaska, keeping other resource-rich areas off limits, finalizing rules that establish more hurdles to onshore oil and natural gas production on federal lands, and withdrawing 61 oil and natural gas leases in Montana as part of a lawsuit settlement over climate change.

And then there's the issue of the Keystone XL pipeline, which would deliver
830,000 barrels of oil per day from Alberta, Canada, to Gulf Coast refineries.
When given the chance to approve the project, President Obama flat out said
"no."

Now, though, he is attempting to have it both ways, and is expected to announce plans to fast-track the southern portion of the pipeline. But this is all for show, as his announcement won't change anything. TransCanada told Bloomberg News that the President's announcement won't affect their schedule at all, where construction on the southern portion is already slated to begin in June.

If the President were truly supportive of the project, he would not have personally lobbied Senate Democrats two weeks ago to vote against an
amendment that would have authorized construction of the entire pipeline.
He cannot now say he is expediting anything. President Obama is merely putting political rhetoric over smart policy in order to appease his environmental base and boost his sagging poll numbers simultaneously.

According to Gallup, those who are following the issue favor building the
pipeline by a 78-22 margin. And even including those who are not following the
issue closely, the pipeline still has the support of 57 percent of the nation.

President Obama uses the language of "all of the above," but his
actions speak greater volumes. Rather than give themselves an "A" for
gas prices and mock their opponents, the Obama Administration should
immediately speed up the permitting and leasing processes, remove litigation
risks, reform punitive regulations, and stop throwing billions in taxpayer
money at broken companies like Solyndra and calling it an answer.

I grade Obama's energy policy D- for poor managment, he is clearly over his head in this issue too!

Yesterday I watched a train go by with an incredible number of bio fuel tankers all marked hazardous and I started wondering about pipeline explosions verses train derailments.

Pipelines are clearly the safest and quite frankly they are everywhere.

Hey bob-2579213, what's new with you since Senator Craig is out of D.C.? Still hanging out in bathroom stalls or have you moved to street corners?

Why don't we put it to a vote?

Those in favor of pipelines have it go through their property and their drinking water supply. (In addition, the Republican position that it's illegal for anyone to sue in case of an accident must apply to those who vote in favor).

Everyone else, will not have the pipeline in their backyard, potentially impacting their drinking water, and should their be an accident to the pipeline that impacts them, they can sue.

Debbie-525743

Why don't we put it to a vote?

Awesome idea!!

Can I also request the same for wind turbines and solar panels?

Why should the farmers of America have to look out their windows and see wind farms?

Debbie...

We do have pipelines here on the Barnet Shale on my property too.

How about if you do not want a pipeline around you you just live without what the pipeline brings you?

Fair enough?

Taxpaying Taxpayers drop to four -year- lows.... thank you President Screw Up!!

thank you President Screw Up!!

That's not nice to call President Bush names.

the only man to make Jimmy Carter look "presidential" by comparison, Barack Hussine Obummer!!

Job 1...

Please check President Bush's unemployment numbers, especially those prior to a democrat controlled house and senate before making disparaging remarks about him.

old fat guy, so you mean the Republicans are 100% to blame for the housing bubble that built up through 2006.

Funny, wasn't it the Republicans who declared 2 wars, doubled military spending, AND lower taxes. Only time in US history we have gone to war (not just one, but two of them) and not raised taxes to pay for it.

It's such a shame Republicans spent so much money helping out people living in the middle East rather than helping Americans. That money would have truly helped Social Security and Medicare recipients.

Debbie....

America started wars with the backing of democrats like John F Kerry the senator that served in Viet Nam for three months and Kennedy and Hillary.

Get it....? America started the wars because she was attacked and she was mad and she did what was right.

Obama the Big Government worshipping, "share the wealth" , insane trillion dollars deficit-spending, Obamacare taking over 1/6 of private economy President, a "Libertarian"?

What are you smoking up there in Maine, Amy?

This is what makes him almost Libertarian, if Libertarians actually understood their own philosophy.

Yikes Amy, what are you talking about? Obama is much closer to being a socialist than a libertarian!

You are right Amy - he's not an ideologue, which is why he has so many on the left upset. He's pragmatic - which is exactly what I want in a President and Commander in Chief.

Are you guys gonna focus on the issues or is it gonna be another day of you showing the world what complete dumbsh!ts you are?

Yeah...like Madcow and Sgt Nazi Ed Schultz...hypocrite...

You mean the truth tellers.

job1 is a prime example of ignorance and liberal bigotry. That anyone could be so gullible , ignorant and stupid enough to still believe ANYHING obama says is beyond belief

Could they be FOX Noise trolls?

That would seem to be the logical conclusion.

Or maybe it coud be that people on the right actually have a life unlike Amy, Mo and Nutjob1 who will spend all day on their favorite Obama worship blog.

And if we didn't have to refine it into gasoline for our cars, there would be enough to last.

I would rather use oil on things like medicines and similar type products, than using it running around in a car or producing energy that can be created using other renewable sources.