President Barack Obama/Vice-President Joe Biden Re-elected to 2nd Term Thread

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Boehner's office tweeting out his refusal to consider tax-rate hikes -- as if to concede that O will win and so the Cliff Games must begin.

[GibbsFactor]

In which Bang was advocating letting them die eventually.

(And I think he's just talking about coal. That's how this thing started. But it may have spread.)




What (I think) almost everybody else wants to do, too.

I think that getting energy from burning dead things is a "business plan" that has got to end. Soon.

I think it's guaranteed that 100 years from now, it will be a dead technology. That it will be on it's way out in 50 years.

That means that something will replace it. (Most likely, several somethings.)

I think that it would be Really Nice if those Somethings were Made in USA.

Ideally, they could do, for this country, what aviation has done for the last 50-75 years of American dominance.

(Realistically, that may not be possible. America doesn't have the advantages that we had, when we achieved a monopoly on aviation.)

But I at least want us to have a piece of it.

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And this leads you to think Obama is the man to this over Romney? I just can't fathom it.

And, I think that encouraging those new technologies is a legitimate function of government.

I think that government subsidies are valid, in rare occasions. I think the criteria include being a new, emerging technology. Something that is important to the entire country. Something that we know that we're going to need.

I think finding some new energy solutions fit those bills.

You like what you've seen from Obama's energy campaign so far? Subsidies going to companies with big plans and horrible follow through.

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I believe I mentioned his frequent assertion that subsidies should never be used, unless an industry doesn't need them?

What does that even mean?


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My gut feeling says that rooftop solar will never be economically viable. It's certainly an order of magnitude away from being viable, right now.

Now, what I think of as "high energy solar"? Where, instead of a square mile of solar collectors, you have a square mile of mirrors, concentrating all that light on one, single, collector?

To my gut, that looks a lot more viable.

Obama wants to subsidize rooftop solar makers. Romney wants to help you start your own rooftop solar company.

[Hersh]

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Obama wants to subsidize rooftop solar makers. Romney wants to help you start your own rooftop solar company.

This just makes me laugh. How does Romney want to help?

[HooHog]

Since when is Katy Perry hot?

Since boobies starting being awesome?

[Corcaigh]

This just makes me laugh. How does Romney want to help?

We've been through this. He has a plan. He's done it before and he'll do it again.

[Tulane Skins Fan]

Since boobies starting being awesome?

So, every female with boobies is hot?

[Tulane Skins Fan]

Right...whether you're a fan of her music or not, there's no debating that she's a freakin' babe.

She looks like Lite Brite threw up a Carebear.

[youngchew]

Since boobies starting being awesome?

Right...whether you're a fan of her music or not, there's no debating that she's a freakin' babe.

[JimboDaMan]

So, every female with boobies is hot?

I'm JimboDaMan and I pretty much approve this message.

[Larry]

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Boehner's office tweeting out his refusal to consider tax-rate hikes -- as if to concede that O will win and so the Cliff Games must begin.

So. I wonder when he's going to schedule the vote on extending the payroll tax cuts.

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And this leads you to think Obama is the man to this over Romney? I just can't fathom it.

No, it leads me to conclude that the nation should be investing in alternative energy. (Make that plural. I think the correct approach, in this case, is to encourage several technologies. And 10-20 years from now, let then fight it out.)

[twa]

the nation has been investing in alt energy ,well before the wasteful, crony crap O rolled out

[Tulane Skins Fan]

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I wouldn't read much into that. Boehner is up for reelection tonight too, you know.

[Monte51Coleman]

Lines aren't as bad as reported in Florida. I just voted for the third time.

[alexey]

the nation has been investing in alt energy ,well before the wasteful, crony crap O rolled out

O did some new stuff. ARPA-E started in 2009, for example.

[Tulane Skins Fan]

Lines aren't as bad as reported in Florida. I just voted for the third time.

Hopefully you're mixing it up each time you vote. Gotta throw them.