Randy Kuhl’s Energy Mailer - taking nonsense to the next level
What a bunch of crap.
Here is the latest compost pile ready mailer from Congressman Randy Kuhl. It is compost pile ready but I’m afraid even the worms would choke on the misinformation presented
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Well - where to begin. There is lots there but let’s start with Randy’s gas saving plan. Seems We have covered this already. Bottom line Randy Kuhl claims he will save you almost $2.00 per gallon. See look at the chart.
Didn’t we already discuss the Federal Gas Tax Holiday nonsense? How the money will likely go to middlemen and oil companies rather than consumers?
Then there is simply NO MENTION of the affect the low value of the dollar as compared to other currencies has had on gas prices. I’ve been be discussing it for a while - You can read this International Herald Tribune article or this post.
As he conveniently forgets these things he claims we can drill and get more oil.
Does anyone actually think we drill tomorrow and oil flows the day after? Well, maybe Randy Kuhl is hoping for that pot of gold over the rainbow. But Rainbow Randy is misinformed. Actually that isn’t fair. I believe Randy Kuhl is not misinformed at all. Carrying wateroil for the GOP requires ignoring both the facts and reason.
You can check out this analysis of the mailer by Scholars and Roques (via f29th) as well - Check this out (my bold).
Rep. Kuhl outlines potential GOP plan savings as ranges. He wisely uses the minimum of the range to show how the “plan” would achieve a $2 a gallon price. But the maximum savings — if all occurred — would lower the price of gasoline to minus $1.10 a gallon, according to his numbers. If the maximum is so unbelievable, why should the minimum be any more believable, especially in the absence of sources for his figures?
Finally Oil Companies will pay us to fill our tanks -FREE GAS FOR EVERYONE. Why in the heck should be believe these numbers? We shouldn’t.
The blaming Pelosi thread is funny. Remember when gas prices were less than $1.50 a gallon? Try January 2000. What are they now? $4.25 last I looked. What is the difference ? Once price is before the Bush took office the other is about 200 days until he leaves office.
Sorry Randy - the failed policies of the party you are a member of is responsible for this mess. You can’t separate yourself from this legacy as much as you can separate yourself from your face.
Finally - there is a line about $20 billion dollars in Oil producer taxes. We know how much Randy Kuhl is a fan of big oil. Actually Congressman Kuhl, we have had this discussion before you were wrong then as you are wrong now. In the end you got a bill you could vote for.
There is more in this mailer but I’ll save that for another post.
I feel truly sorry for everyone in Randy Kuhl’s district. After this mailing, it’s pretty clear that he thinks that:
a) Everyone in the district is a moron
b) That he is impermeable, and if he says so it’s true
How can anyone - ANYONE - be such a bold faced liar and put his face on a mailer like that? Has he no SHAME?
Can’t wait to see the one he sends out on the mortgage forclosure crisis. “Under the Democrats, you were forced to take out mortgages you couldn’t afford… with my plan, no one will own a home, and I’ll list 7 ways your family can live on the streets safely.”
What a freakin’ idiot. Let’s just cancel this election and declare Massa the winner now! Put the voters out of their misery earlier than November. Too bad that picture of him driving that gas hog Yukon taxpayer paid for and provided guzzler weren’t on the flier.
Somebody update the dictionary to include the word Kuhl on everything representing even a remote hint at idiocy.
Jiminy,
C’mon now…give credit where credit is due…the poor Congressman is working off of the simple fact that 51% of the voting population in his district are ACTUALLY morons. So if you use those numbers….you can print misleading, garbage (euphemism of the actual 4 letter word I wanted to use) mailers.
Ghost -
Morons no. ill informed perhaps but morons? No. We are not going there.
This post is about Randy Kuhl and not voters in his district. Voters who do not need to be insulted.
Step one of informing is not to insult them.
That argument that they are ill-informed may have held true 30 years ago. With mass media, the internet, and some the highest numbers of high school and college graduation rates per capita; ill-informed is no longer an excuse. Lack of common sense is more likely. If you sole source of information is a flier from your Congressman and that should be truth enough, then you are a moron. 8 years, not to mention support for Reagan and Bush the first and the idiotic reasoning for possibly voting for McCain… yeah ill-informed doesn’t pack enough punch for describing people who support those kind of politics. These people are supporting Kuhl not because they don’t know better, their doing it because it is conscious effort in the voting booth. People have to understand that every action you take, including voting for someone, has its consequences. You have to take responsibility for your actions. As Barbara Boxer stated bluntly “Elections have consequences.” I’m sticking with morons. Stlo7, you’re entitled to your opinion.
“Sticking with morons” Great
Knock it off
Like I said - step one to winning an election is not to insult the voters you want to vote for you or your candidate. You need to earn their vote.
Take a step back and a deep breath and remember that.
Opinions are one thing practicality are another. A portion of those voters need to vote a certain way and calling them morons is not helpful.
Ok, now you’re out of line.
Oh I get it so as long as someone subscribes to what you believe then its good otherwise, they need to “knock it off .”
Get real.
I’m out of line? Must subscribe to my view? Please. I’ve disagreed with folks here before and will again - I’m not asking you to subscribe to my view point - I’m asking you to realize that - you don’t win elections by calling supporters of the other side “morons”.
I’m suggesting that we need to provide at least some of them (yes there are the hopeless 30% ers but we aren’t talking about them are we?) a reason to vote for our side.
I’m suggesting that that reason doesn’t start with calling them “morons”.
Ghost and stlo7, there’s some truth in what each of you are saying.
I agree with Ghost that saying “knock it off” was a little offensive, and counterproductive. However, not as offensive and counterproductive as labeling a whole group of people “morons”.
I understand stlo7’s frustration at that (we’ve been trying to raise the discourse above that here at RT), and Ghost’s frustration with voters in the 29th, who chose poorly in 2006.
I personally like the strategy of saying “Kuhl thinks you’re stupid! (But I don’t.)” It puts you on the same side as ALL voters in the 29th, makes them feel better about themselves, and perhaps more open to what we’ve got to say.
But we can all agree that Randy Kuhl is a moron and he deserves to get knocked out of Washington - he never belonged there to begin with - and the only reason Georgie boy is his “bff” is because they both share the same IQ and shoe size.
Jiminy…you just have a way with words…
I’ve gone back and forth enough with our commenter Elmer — a conservative who lives in the Southern Tier — to say that it’s not accurate to call conservatives in NY-29 “morons”.
Remember, most people just vote with their party. Massa almost won in NY-29 even though Republicans have a nineteen point registration advantage. That means a lot of Republicans crossed party lines to vote against Kuhl and the Bush agenda. That’s not something “morons” would do.
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