Congresswoman threatens to nationalize oil industry

SenaxFlatulus · #1 (**permalink**) 05-24-2008, 12:25 AM

Maxine Waters warns Shell president in House committee hearing

In a grilling of oil executives by a House panel yesterday, Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., threatened to nationalize the industry if it didn't do something about the rising prices at the pump.

A report by Fox News, captured in a clip posted on YouTube.com, showed Waters challenging the president of Shell Oil, John Hofmeister, to guarantee the prices consumers pay will go down if the oil companies are allowed to drill wherever they want off of U.S. shores.

Hofmeister replied: "I can guarantee to the American people, because of the inaction of the United States Congress ,ever-increasing prices unless the demand comes down."

The Shell exec said paying $5 at the pump "will look like a very low price in the years to come if we are prohibited from finding new reserves, new opportunities to increase supplies."

Waters responded, in part, "And guess what this liberal would be all about. This liberal will be about socializing … uh, um. …"

The congresswoman paused to collect her thoughts.
"Would be about, basically, taking over, and the government running all of your companies. …"

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Question:
What do you suppose was running through her mind when she paused to collect her thoughts after so eloquently saying, "This liberal will be about socializing... uh, um... " ?

TheChief · #2 (**permalink**) 05-24-2008, 03:21 AM

Your country is slipping.. next few decades is gonna be a very important time for the U.S.

submarinepainter · #3 (**permalink**) 05-24-2008, 04:28 AM

This so UnAmerican to even suggest Nationalizing Private companies , what a Castro/ Chavez like comment .

BillyBob · #4 (**permalink**) 05-24-2008, 04:50 AM

If the government actually tries to start 'taking over' private businesses and nationalizing them, there will be a bloody revolution in this country.

God I hope they try, we need to start shooting some of these retarded liberals and get this nation back on track.

Professor Peabody · #5 (**permalink**) 05-24-2008, 05:03 AM

This isn't the first time Ms. Waters suffered from self inflicted hoof in mouth!

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There were a good number of “Say What” moments at the March this weekend. Some of the most telling were at the pre-rally the night before, filled with music and ranting aimed at modern-day bra-burner wannabe college students and their nostalgic feminist mothers. One of the most bizarre though, came from Maxine Waters. After sending a civil message to the president (George W Bush, go to hell! And while you’re at it, we want you to take Ashcroft with you. And don’t forget Rumsfeld. And please carry along Condi Rice.”), Waters told the rallied, “I have to march because my mother could not have an abortion.”

http://www.nationalreview.com/thecor...ive.asp#030642

She's like the energizer bunny of nuttiness.

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Article of Faith Number Four: The U.S. Government Funneled Crack into South Central Los Angeles In 1996, Gary Webb wrote a three-part report for The San Jose Mercury describing how the Central Intelligence Agency had deliberately sold crack cocaine to dealers in South Central Los Angeles to fund the Nicaraguan contras in the 1980s. Later that year the newspaper retracted the story, because it turned out that Webb had never found anything even resembling proof of this arrangement. Yet Congresswoman Maxine Waters has continued to demand further investigation of the case, convinced that the inner-city crack epidemic could only be explained by racism.

http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/m...rter-race.html

WOW!

BillyBob · #6 (**permalink**) 05-24-2008, 05:23 AM

That commu-nazi Hillary promises to seize profits from private companies:

YouTube - Hillary on Oil Profits

crestwood33 · #7 (**permalink**) 05-24-2008, 05:29 AM

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Originally Posted by SenaxFlatulus

Maxine Waters warns Shell president in House committee hearing

In a grilling of oil executives by a House panel yesterday, Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., threatened to nationalize the industry if it didn't do something about the rising prices at the pump.

A report by Fox News, captured in a clip posted on YouTube.com, showed Waters challenging the president of Shell Oil, John Hofmeister, to guarantee the prices consumers pay will go down if the oil companies are allowed to drill wherever they want off of U.S. shores.

Hofmeister replied: "I can guarantee to the American people, because of the inaction of the United States Congress ,ever-increasing prices unless the demand comes down."
over and over and over
The Shell exec said paying $5 at the pump "will look like a very low price in the years to come if we are prohibited from finding new reserves, new opportunities to increase supplies."

Waters responded, in part, "And guess what this liberal would be all about. This liberal will be about socializing … uh, um. …"

The congresswoman paused to collect her thoughts.
"Would be about, basically, taking over, and the government running all of your companies. …"

Link

Question:
What do you suppose was running through her mind when she paused to collect her thoughts after so eloquently saying, "This liberal will be about socializing... uh, um... " ?

what a bunch of losers, do they actually get paid?

BillyBob · #8 (**permalink**) 05-24-2008, 05:41 AM

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Originally Posted by crestwood33

what a bunch of losers, do they actually get paid?

Were they discussing anything remotely close to this topic of conversation?

And if you hate Fox so much, why do you continue to watch it?

crestwood33 · #9 (**permalink**) 05-24-2008, 05:49 AM

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Originally Posted by BillyBob

Were they discussing anything remotely close to this topic of conversation?

And if you hate Fox so much, why do you continue to watch it?

just their phoneyism Fair & Balanced. Then how can they claim they are Election Central or whatever it is, when they can't even get their party's John McCain on live because he knows they are a bunch of jerks (or so he says)

BillyBob · #10 (**permalink**) 05-24-2008, 05:51 AM

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Originally Posted by crestwood33

just their phoneyism Fair & Balanced. Then how can they claim they are Election Central or whatever it is, when they can't even get their party's John McCain on live because he knows they are a bunch of jerks (or so he says)

McCain was on Fox last night.

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