George Will Asks Donna Brazile 'If Obama Can Stop the Seas From Rising Why Can't He Bring Down Gas Prices?'
ABC News contributor Donna Brazile on Sunday - like so many Obama-loving media members have in recent months - said, "The president can't control gas prices."
This led George Will to marvelously ask of his This Week co-panelist, "If he can stop the seas from rising, why can't he bring down gas prices?" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
DONNA BRAZILE, ABC NEWS CONTRIBUTOR: Well, first of all, you put forward a proposal and you say, look, I'm trying to lower gas prices. I've come up with a proposal that will end all of this speculation, that will put more feds to ensure that people are not driving up the gas prices because of capital investments.
The truth is, is that the president can't control gas prices. I come from a petroleum-producing state, and we can drill all day, we can pump all day, and, by the way, it's two-year anniversary of the BP oil spill, and I'm still worried about marine life in the gulf.
But the fact is, is that this is out of his control, but he has to show the American people that he's doing everything possible to manage gas prices.
GEORGE WILL: But there's something about our obsession with the imperial presidency -- it's true in both parties -- that says nothing's out of our control. After all, Mr. Obama, the night he clinched the nomination, said this will be the moment when the rise of the seas stop. Well, if he can stop the seas from rising, why can't he bring down gas prices?
For those that have forgotten:
But I digress:
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS, HOST: The president can admit that everything's out of control.
PEGGY NOONAN, WALL STREET JOURNAL: Can he admit it? No. But...
WILL: Why not?
NOONAN: But I think...
WILL: It's true.
NOONAN: Well...
(CROSSTALK)
BRAZILE: Production is up, and still gas prices continue to fluctuate.
WILL: Presidents would be...
NOONAN: Yeah, but something like the -- the pipeline comes through, the Keystone pipeline, he can make a decision that can be helpful or not helpful. I don't think it -- it helps if he just says, oh, my gosh, everything is beyond my abilities. He could seriously back some proposals that might be helpful.
WILL: But that's what we need, surely, is a president who will look the American people in the eye and say, you know, there's an awful lot in this complicated world government can't do a darn thing about. And they would be so much happier.
Yes we would, George. Yes we would.
Readers should also see "Donna Brazile Endorses George Will for Vice President."
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If I've said this once, I've said it a million Fluking times,...
Submitted by Newsbubba on Sun, 04/22/2012 - 4:19pm.
... the RBFSOB is doing exactly what he wants to do! He is destroying the greatest economy on the planet because he hates it and us.
Get your head around that, George!
You're the only one!
Submitted by CobraMan on Sun, 04/22/2012 - 4:40pm.
"I'm still worried about marine life in the gulf."
Well, you're the only one who is, hunny! The people who live there are trying to get people such as yourself to overcome that stupid sentiment and, you know, VISIT the Gulf and BUY the products that it produces. You know, the "marine life" such as crab, fish, ect, that you pretend to be so worried about.
"But the fact is, is that this is out of his control, but he has to show the American people that he's doing everything possible to manage gas prices."
By the way, did you even recognize the inherent fallacy of that statement? It's a contradiction! First you claim that there's nothing he can do, and then you claim that he's doing everything possible. Well, which one is it? Is he powerless to affect the prices, or can he actually do something to "manage" them? It can't be both!.
By the way, since when is it up to the federal government to "manage" the price of anything? That's socialism! The last time I looked, we were a Constitutional Republic.
It's a stupid policy which is bound to fail anyways. The last time a President tried to "manage" prices was during the Nixon Administration, when he instigate the policy of wage and price freezes, and look how well that worked out for him! Six additional years of Recession! Is that what you want for America?
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
I say again
Submitted by Tidy Bowl Man on Sun, 04/22/2012 - 4:42pm.
How can George sit there and take this all seriously? Olby? really? Is abc just phoning it in from Lib-land?
Yes, they are.
Submitted by djwolf12 on Sun, 04/22/2012 - 7:13pm.
I think George Stephanopoulos found himself a new BFF in The False Murrow. ABC is now in the gutter of broadcast journalism, but yet still a dog hair above the lowest of the media guttersnipes, NBC and M.S.S.R. (M-BS-NBC).
Perfect for "Earth Day"
Submitted by deadeyedan on Sun, 04/22/2012 - 4:49pm.
Does stopping sea level rise compare with Moses parting the sea?
It's really a display of "anthropo-chauvinism", a term I just invented to cover the silly belief that humanity can somehow control nature.
CLIMATEGATE (now I & II plus FAKEGATE) - the revelation that the pseudo-scientists at East Anglia University know just as much about the atmosphere as Harvard law professors know about the Constitution
Dog offensive, remarks.
Submitted by upcountrywater on Sun, 04/22/2012 - 4:51pm.
Fresh.... 20 views...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLdZelaZzD8&feature=player_embedded
The sea level is falling... good thing there is a Natural Gas GLUT. Kuz it's getting cool, out there. Nature is storing water here in Gigatons ....just this year.
http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/N_timeseries.png
And lots more here.
http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/S_timeseries.png
When will Da kine dog eater do some science and bring out this graph:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-262
You Didn't Build That.
The idiocy never ceases to amaze me
Submitted by Radical1979 on Sun, 04/22/2012 - 5:17pm.
Brazile is actually saying they can drill all day and pump more and it won't affect prices?!
that's called
Submitted by spepper on Sun, 04/22/2012 - 5:33pm.
That's called "towing the party line" by just mindlessly repeating or paraphrasing ONLY what comes out of you-know-who's mouth. Repeat-regurgitate-swallow, repeat-regurgitate-swallow,
repeat-regurgitate-swallow, etc etc ad nauseam.
Of course since NONE on team Obama bothered to take the very basic ECON101 in their freshman year of college (too busy with "organizing" and mimeographing images of Che Guevara)
they reveal their stupidity on the subject with those lines-- it remains to be seen whether there are enough "educated" voters out there that know "bogus" like that when they hear it.
Don't confuse a liberal with
Submitted by motherbelt on Sun, 04/22/2012 - 5:54pm.
Don't confuse a liberal with logic. That's their story and they're stickin' to it!
Drilling won't help, they insist, because it takes to long (as if solar and wind energy can be put in place by this afternoon!)
We could have been reaping the benefits of ANWR drilling now
but they said it would take too long....
And they will sing the same song now.....it will take too long!!
You want to scream at these people....so where will we be in 7-10 years if we DON'T start drilling now?????
Oh? Did she say that? Remind
Submitted by krendler on Sun, 04/22/2012 - 8:43pm.
Oh? Did she say that?
Remind us again what her degree is in, or what her business background is...
Her opinion on the subject is as informed as my 3-yr-old nephew's.
Bush announced the opening of new drilling areas in 06 (07?) and the media scoffed and ridiculed the president, saying then the same thing they're saying now: Won't affect oil/gas prices for decades.
What *actually* happened? Oil prices started dropping the DAY Bush made the announcement and continued to drop steadily for many months afterwards.
Sorry, liberals are just flat out idiots.
Brazille should have been asked
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Sun, 04/22/2012 - 5:41pm.
Donna, do you ever even wonder why it is that Baraka's shiite doesn't stink?
Donna Brazile - Bwaahaahaahaa
Submitted by Savonarola on Sun, 04/22/2012 - 6:22pm.
Oh please, stop, don't make me laugh.
Best line at the end.
Submitted by Tjexcite on Sun, 04/22/2012 - 7:08pm.
"there's an awful lot in this complicated world government can't do a darn thing about."
But it goes 100 opposite of what the left think. To them "there's an awful lot in this complicated world that only thought government can order be made."
"..that will put more feds to
Submitted by ant on Sun, 04/22/2012 - 7:22pm.
"..that will put more feds to ensure that people aren't driving up the gases prices.." Is that a sentence? These people are geniuses, I gotta tell ya...yeah, more federal governmnet will fix it, why, that always works. Idiots.
Two things - Baraka has about
Submitted by killa37 on Mon, 04/23/2012 - 12:51am.
Two things - Baraka has about as much chance of lowering the sea levels as I do.................NO!!! I take that back!! I actually have MORE ability to lower them than HE does!!! But then............who said they need 'lowering', anyway??? Those sea levels have been 'doing their thing' a LOOOOOOOOOOOONG time before either me, Boy Baraka, ALGORE, or anybody else has ever appeared on the scene - the only difference is - I KNOW it, and they DON'T!!!!
And Boy Baraka CAN do something about gas prices - he's DOING IT!!! He has stated his case about gas prices, energy costs, coal mines, and the rest....................he cannot hide when it comes to his complicity in our soaring energy price mess, because he is at the forefront of making sure it IS the way it is!!!
Donna Brazille is a complete moron.............no wonder she was working for ALGORE!!! And, hey Donna - call me a 'cracker', OK??? I'll have a pretty good response for you when you do............but it might 'offend' you.
For ideolouges like Brazile...
Submitted by Jim54 on Mon, 04/23/2012 - 1:07am.
The Obamas of the world are due only credit for success. The Bushs of the world are due only blame for failure.
The sad truth is that
Submitted by texastommy on Mon, 04/23/2012 - 7:45am.
The gulf states won't let Ms. Brazile swim in the Gulf. She leaves a ring.
Dumb person searches for cogent thought
Submitted by 10ksnooker on Mon, 04/23/2012 - 10:15am.
Just one please ...
It was boring just listening