Comments on: Welch and Gillespie: Obama Is Speeding Into Carter Country

By: jc

jc — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 01:37:17 +0000

Carter was the clown who came up with the Windfall Profits Tax. He also started the Dept of Energy. These two actions alone are why no one in their right mind should pretend that Carter was any friend of good energy policy. Historical revisionism at its finest.

In practice, the Windfall Profits Tax became the ‘guarranteed profits tax’ and gave every producer an incentive to raise costs and work inefficiently. Government was too inept to catch on.

The energy department? LOL. Maybe someday it will do something to help anyone that is not actually employed by, or has a contract directly with, the energy department. When that happens, be sure to mark the date because it will be a first.

By: AD - RtR/OS!

AD - RtR/OS! — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:19:32 +0000

Youse guys should be ashamed of yourselves for the way you gang-up on poor timb; I mean, it’s so easy.

By: Dmac

Dmac — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:02:54 +0000

Hey Tim, one more thing – I have the capacity to admit I was wrong, unlike yourself. OTOH, you have the capacity to behave like a horse’s arse every time you post here – but thanks for playing.

By: Dmac

Dmac — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:00:23 +0000

Went haven’t you been outraged at something.

Awesome retort there as always, Tim.

By: JD

JD — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:07:53 +0000

I just wish the “serious people” would quit trying to reach into my pockets, and control every aspect of my life. Serious must be synonymous with nanny-state.

By: Mike K

Mike K — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:25:32 +0000

Tim (who’s 40 and therefore deserving of respect) has a good idea. Those “serious people” who like governing should enlist all other “serious people” and they can govern each other. Leave the rest of us, who only want basic services provided, alone.

I gather you don’t believe in markets. There used to be a country for you but it collapsed in 1989. It turns out that command economies don’t do so well.

By: timb

timb — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:40:20 +0000

It’s always the lurkers and drive – bys who come on here and adopt the stance of feigned outrage and insult.

Yeah, it’s the regulars who show real outrage, eh, dmac? Went haven’t you been outraged at something.

For the rest, go look at the WaPo chat these yahoos did. Two libertarians dumbasses arguing in the wake of deregulatory nightmare of recession that all health care needs is a market, because “markets always make things cheaper!” Well, those markets sure made acquiring GM and Lehman Brothers stock cheaper.

Why don’t those lunatics just “go Galt” and leave governing to serious people?

By: L.N. Smithee

L.N. Smithee — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 06:15:12 +0000

Believe it or not, there was an ABC sitcom named Carter Country, starring Victor French (Bonanza, Little House on The Prairie) that ran for one full season and at least part of a second one. It was about a tiny Georgia town and its police department, and the hilarity (not) that ensued when the town's Chief of Police (French) hired a smart young black city slicker as a sergeant, annoying a old redneck officer who bristles at being his underling. This IMDB.com description sums it up pretty well:

Hollywood gave us [this] not-so-good badly titled waste of time that basically featured incoherent and incompetent rednecks getting their comeuppance on a weekly basis.

By: Glen Wishard

Glen Wishard — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:41:18 +0000

Carter’s current day lunacy makes people forget that before he lost to Reagan he was challenged by Ted Kennedy in the 1980 Democratic Primary …

Good idea. Kennedy is too old, but Hillary certainly isn’t doing anything lately.

By: Dmac

Dmac — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 21:15:26 +0000

Or am I now supposed to accuse him of misconduct in men’s rooms? Strange mores, for a board run by a prosecutor.

I made a mistake in identification with the wrong commenter, and was corrected immediately for it – what would you like our host to do, ban me for a simple error? And if you’ve actually bothered to read the postings here over the past few months, you’d well know whom I was referring to – so save us your moralistic sanctimony and stick to the topic at hand. Sound good?

It’s always the lurkers and drive – bys who come on here and adopt the stance of feigned outrage and insult. Stick around for awhile, and perhaps your sense of getting your undies in an extreme knot will subside.