Dick Wadhams reaches...and comes up with Macaca

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Stephen Paulson (AP) article-

Wadhams said the energy industry employs hundreds of thousands of people in Colorado and Schaffer is proud of his work.

Wow.  Even COGA only claims 70,000 peeps...

"There are a lot of reasons not to elect me." Mitt Romney in a moment of clarity

"I'm Mitt Romney and yes, Wolf, that's also my first name," Willard Mitt Romney demonstrating 'policy flexibility.'  

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by: ClubTwitty @ Tue Jun 17, 2008 at 00:32:50 AM UTC

Casts a Wide Net

That's got to include everyone who works at a gas station, sells cars, fixes furnaces and sells stoves. Maybe the ones who use stoves too. Oh, and all the convenience store clerks who will swap your propane tank for ya.

Is Wadhams even capable of a straight answer?  

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by: RedGreen @ Tue Jun 17, 2008 at 00:41:09 AM UTC

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I go for NO

He's a liar.  There is no other word that describes Wadhams so succinctly.  (OK, I can think of several...but liar fits to a t).

"There are a lot of reasons not to elect me." Mitt Romney in a moment of clarity

"I'm Mitt Romney and yes, Wolf, that's also my first name," Willard Mitt Romney demonstrating 'policy flexibility.'  

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by: ClubTwitty @ Tue Jun 17, 2008 at 00:45:25 AM UTC

If Wadhams wants

to keep pushing Republican males of the sporting community into the D column, more power to him.  

"At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid." - Nietzsche  

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by: twas brillig @ Tue Jun 17, 2008 at 13:27:09 PM UTC

lets see...

Although Rep. Udall has been in Congress ten years--of the last 20, the GOP controlled that body and the WH for 12.   Hmmm, truth AND math challenged.  

"There are a lot of reasons not to elect me." Mitt Romney in a moment of clarity

"I'm Mitt Romney and yes, Wolf, that's also my first name," Willard Mitt Romney demonstrating 'policy flexibility.'  

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by: ClubTwitty @ Tue Jun 17, 2008 at 14:40:50 PM UTC

Can Schaffer even speak for himself?

The Denver Post has an interview with both senate candidates.  Notice Udall answers in the first person, "Schaffer" answers in the third...

http://www.denverpost.com/news...

C'mon Dick!  Let Bob Speak!

"There are a lot of reasons not to elect me." Mitt Romney in a moment of clarity

"I'm Mitt Romney and yes, Wolf, that's also my first name," Willard Mitt Romney demonstrating 'policy flexibility.'  

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by: ClubTwitty @ Tue Jun 17, 2008 at 14:46:21 PM UTC

has anyone actually seen Schaffer recently?

   Do we even know if he's safe?  Come on, Dick, at least show us a picture of Schaffer holding a current newspaper!

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by: One Queer Dude @ Tue Jun 17, 2008 at 17:51:30 PM UTC

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Schaffer is out of sight on purpose

If Wadhams allows Schaffer into an uncontrolled environment where citizens or members of the press can ask unrestricted questions he won't have any answers that will help him.  Bottom line, Schaffer doesn't have compelling reponses for the questions surrounding the sweatshops and forced abortions on Saipan, his off-the-wall statements from his 2000 campaign website, or his actions on behalf of the oil and gas industry.  The only way Wadhams can manage and control Schaffer's new public image is to keep the real Bob Schaffer in the closet.

It is ironic that during the 2004 campaign, Mr. Wadhams specifically critisized Sen. Dachle for changing his positions on issues and that that was one of the two primary factors that contributed to Daschle's defeat.  It appears he is trying to do this for Schaffer without the consequences Sen. Daschle suffered at the hands of the electorate.  

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by: Republican 36 @ Tue Jun 17, 2008 at 19:44:58 PM UTC

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Are you saying Schaffer is gay?

The only way Wadhams can manage and control Schaffer's new public image is to keep the real Bob Schaffer in the closet.

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by: DavidThi808 @ Wed Jun 18, 2008 at 05:04:54 AM UTC

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Schaffer isn't gay

He just practices the ideology that dare not speak its name.

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by: RedGreen @ Wed Jun 18, 2008 at 05:13:52 AM UTC

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No, I'm not saying Schaffer is gay

My comment was made in the figurative sense that Schaffer is being locked-up in a closet so he doesn't personally have to face the media or the public.

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by: Republican 36 @ Thu Jun 19, 2008 at 15:15:37 PM UTC

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questions...

During the previous administrations, the cost of foreign oil was much lower so it would not make sense to drill as much domestic oil.  In recent years, the price of oil has risen, making it more profitable for domestic drilling.

Congress doesn't authorize drilling permits either, do they?  It is the BLM and Interior, isn't it?  So the argument that it is the Dems or Republicans' faults is neither here nor there.

If it costs more to drill off shore than it does in Colorado, they'll drill here.  If the price of oil drops to where it isn't profitable to drill/pump, wells are capped until prices rise again.  

Isn't this the way it has always been?  Boom and bust.  Who actually thinks that it will be any different this time around?

Instead of trying to blame the price of oil on political parties or candidates, shouldn't we figure out a way to save some of the record mineral revenues coming into this state for when the bust comes?

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by: Car 31 @ Tue Jun 17, 2008 at 15:19:17 PM UTC

Congress has some control

They can and have put many restrictions on drilling on Federal public lands and Federal mineral leases.  BLM and Interior under the Bush Administration have attempted to override these with mixed success.

But in the end the limitation is on drilling capacity; there is currently a backlog of almost a decade worth of drilling.  As you note, profit has been a factor in not drilling domestically; now that it's profitable and new fields are discovered or are becoming technologically feasible, we don't have the equipment to drill that fast.

Oil will go bust the moment we replace it with something better; until then, it's going to be a relatively long boom cycle this time out.

"We're below sharks and contract killers." -- Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), speaking on Congress's 9% approval rating

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by: Phoenix Rising @ Tue Jun 17, 2008 at 17:02:40 PM UTC

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what the industry/Bush Administration call impediments

most Americans recognize as National Parks, secure wildlife habitat, watersheds, etc.

in CO millions of acres are leased and yet only abut 1/3 has been put into production.  

companies should drill the land they already own/control (many of which have significant proven reserves) rather than keep pushing to open--in the case of Roan for instance--the last small fraction of the BLM lands in NW CO not already under control of the industry.  Fact is, they want to lock up as much of this land--and the publicly-owned minerals that underlie them--as possible before BushCo, Inc. (a wholly-owned subsidy of Big Oil)--are run out of office.  (And hopefully to prison where most belong).

"There are a lot of reasons not to elect me." Mitt Romney in a moment of clarity

"I'm Mitt Romney and yes, Wolf, that's also my first name," Willard Mitt Romney demonstrating 'policy flexibility.'  

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by: ClubTwitty @ Tue Jun 17, 2008 at 17:08:40 PM UTC

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subsidiary...

the subsidy goes the other way, from the US Treasury into Big Oil's pockets...

"There are a lot of reasons not to elect me." Mitt Romney in a moment of clarity

"I'm Mitt Romney and yes, Wolf, that's also my first name," Willard Mitt Romney demonstrating 'policy flexibility.'  

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by: ClubTwitty @ Tue Jun 17, 2008 at 17:13:10 PM UTC

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didn't this happen before?

In the 70's, didn't oil companies acquire many leases that were held for years and only when the price of oil rose, began drilling again?  Does an increase in leasing the land automatically translate to drilling upon that lease?

Also, you keep saying publicly owned minerals. They aren't publicly owned, they're minerals under public land. We get taxes from the natural resources, but we don't own the oil or gas.

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by: Car 31 @ Tue Jun 17, 2008 at 17:20:52 PM UTC

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Yes, the minerals are in fact publicy-owned

and the situation is radically different now than in the 70's.  Now there are major national pipelines to carry the gas out of state.  Apples and oranges.


"There are a lot of reasons not to elect me." Mitt Romney in a moment of clarity

"I'm Mitt Romney and yes, Wolf, that's also my first name," Willard Mitt Romney demonstrating 'policy flexibility.'  

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by: ClubTwitty @ Tue Jun 17, 2008 at 18:01:49 PM UTC

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what the American taxpayers get is royalties

because we own the federal minerals that are managed (mostly) by BLM under the federal surface estate (Parks, wildlife refuges, national forests, and BLM lands), as well as some private lands--so called split estate.  

The State of Colorado gets severance taxes on the minerals produced (at the well head as it were).  

Oil and gas companies lease the minerals, which give them the right to develop those (leases expire after 10 years if production hasn't begun--that's the simplified version, there are  means by which companies can lock up the leases for a longer period of time without producing on a particular lease, communitization agreements and the like).  However, the U.S. (allegedly on behalf of its citizens) retains ownership.  This was enacted in law in 1920 when Congress severed the hardrock mineral estate (which can still be patented, or purchased, outright) from the fluid mineral estate (excluding hydrogen) which is not purchased but leased.    

"There are a lot of reasons not to elect me." Mitt Romney in a moment of clarity

"I'm Mitt Romney and yes, Wolf, that's also my first name," Willard Mitt Romney demonstrating 'policy flexibility.'  

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by: ClubTwitty @ Tue Jun 17, 2008 at 18:46:22 PM UTC

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Thanks Twitty and Phoenix

appreciate the info.

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by: Car 31 @ Tue Jun 17, 2008 at 19:39:02 PM UTC

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Leasing to drilling

In many cases, leasing does not amount to immediate drilling, but under BushCo, an inordinately large number of leases in the most sensitive areas have been developed immediately after lease.  Drilling within the viewscape of national parks has been a major priority.

"We're below sharks and contract killers." -- Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), speaking on Congress's 9% approval rating

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by: Phoenix Rising @ Tue Jun 17, 2008 at 19:17:42 PM UTC

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link

http://www.blm.gov/co/st/en/BL...

"There are a lot of reasons not to elect me." Mitt Romney in a moment of clarity

"I'm Mitt Romney and yes, Wolf, that's also my first name," Willard Mitt Romney demonstrating 'policy flexibility.'  

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by: ClubTwitty @ Tue Jun 17, 2008 at 18:09:22 PM UTC