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February 24, 2010 07:03 AM UTC
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is par for the course. The Republican Party and its candidates, across the country, are now so constricted by their ideology they cannnot under any circumstances admit or acknowledge objective facts. If ideology says the Colorado oil and gas regulations harmed that sector of the economy then that is the end of the discussion and objective facts like crashing market prices for gas and the fact exploration and production in all the other ‘oil patch’ states declined by the same percentage as it did in Colorado are ignored. Ideology takes precedent over all other considerations.
Ideology and philosophy are only the starting points when proposing or making policy. They provide a frame of reference but they can’t and don’t in most instances take into consideration all of the relevant and important facts that make up present time reality. Most forms of ideology or political philosophy are based on past facts and the evaluation and assumptions made from past events. When strict adherence to ideology and philosophy completely control policy making and turn a blind eye to objective reality, it may have the virtue of simplicity, but it rarely, if ever, translates into workable and sound policy for the simple reason existing reality does make a difference.
In Republican circles today, blind adherence to ideology is a prerequisite to running for and serving in office. One deviation from that blind adherence and you are cast into the fires of hell to burn for eternity (e.g. U.S. Senator Scott Brown – who only 48 hours ago was the darling of the Right-wing, is now a RINO and must be primaried in 2012 because he voted for President Obama’s jobs bill).
Mr. Mcinnis has shown he has accepted his role as a blind adherent to Republican ideology regardless of the facts. Someone who is that constricted in their ability to evaluate and consider actual facts has no business being Governor of Colorado.
Scooter is spewing bullshit on the oil and gas regs and in the gas patch people buy it. Nobody else does.
It’s campaign bullshit directed at the true believers.
As for lying, you know what they say about politicians moving their lips.
when McInnis corrects the record. Otherwise, I will do all I can to remind Colorado voters of McInnis’ mendacious ways.
we have to keep reminding folks of McFinished’s statements and record of statements.
I hope the wider press does the same since, as I think Gertie was implying, those of us here are already very familiar with Scooter.
very familiar with Scooter.
I’m not being mean, Twitty. He’s dead wrong on this issue but it plays well in the gas patch. He’s bought and paid for, as we’ll see as the oil and gas crowd endows his campaign.
Scooter’s problem is the people who don’t live in the gas patch. They’re tumbling to his “no plan” for the state budget, for one thing, and his BS on the Army and southeastern Colorado.
Those of us who know Scooter know there will be more.
The more Mr. McInnis and now County Commissioner Conway (R-Weld) continue to spew this nonsense in the face of overwheling facts to the contrary and now the recognition by the oil and gas associations, plus many of the companies involved in Weld County, that in fact the new oil and gas regulations have no impact on their decision to drill in Colorado, will only make the Republican brand seem even more out-of-touch and irrelevant.
Please, please, please do not stop. A lie unanswered becomes a truth. And you’re doing a better job calling McInnis out on this than the rest of the MSM combined.
In addition, you’re being read – by a lot of people.
I have been surprised and grateful to learn, primarily through getting FPE status, that I have a following of sorts.
I don’t try to be a journalist–MSM or otherwise–I’m more of a pundit I suppose.
But I do what I can to argue from facts and source my material. People can hate my commentary, my analysis, my ideology–but I try to avoid being vulnerable on the facts.
if you were getting paid to comment in the MSM, is an “analyst.” You read shit in the paper. You think about it. You tell us what you think it means.
More often than not, you’re right.
Keep thinking. Keep posting.
I appreciate your posts. I follow these issues for my business, but I blog for free. As much as I disdain the talking cable heads, it would be a cushy gig.
It would beat the living shit out of yelling at the TV.
Absolutely true. They’ve measured the accuracy of the talking heads and the longer they do it and the more they are paid, the worse their predictions.
I specifically look for your tag in the right column.
Oh, and what Ralphie said.
In my previous interview I was challenged on the O&G Regs too but I have yet to see anything from you supporting your claims. The Frazier institute stats clearly reflect a 25% higher rig count decline in CO compared to the other 22 states it researches. Justify that difference for me. Better yet, don’t.
You have much more fertile ground for the lying argument than this. You guys are smart. Find them.
with neighboring Rocky Mountain states. Comparing the Piceance, with its limited pipeline capacity etc. to the shale plays for instance is Enron accounting. I believe one of the links above goes to a diary comparing Co with other RM states. The oil and gas industry is now on record admitting the regs did little. If you look at the decline, it started before any of the rules went into effect. Tens of thousands of federal acres are already leased in the Piceance, in known production areas, not subject to the state rules. Drilling has declined at a comparable rate there. Are you suggesting that the oil and gas companies are so stupid they don’t know where the rules apply?