Debate FAKT CHEK
mop up
O: earmarks account for less than 1% of the Federal budget.
Yup.
O: standing up to leaders of my party - tort reform…
Not so much…
December 27, 2006
In one of his first votes, Obama voted for the eminently sensible Class Action Fairness Act. This hypothetically annoys the litigation lobby (though they can be expected to support Edwards in 2008) and the cast of usual suspects who opposed the bill; one can also find various members of the lunatic left thoughtlessly buying the litigation lobby hype that this minor procedural reform protecting against abusive forum shopping by the plaintiffs’ bar had much larger consequences, and thus expressing outrage against Obama for voting for it.
"Use ‘em or lose ‘em” oil leases
Facile, DNC boilerplate sound-bite demonstrating an utter lack of comprehension of the actualities of the market, engineering, and so much more.
[from WSJ]
Oil companies acquire leases in the expectation that some of them contain sufficient oil and gas to cover the total costs. Yet it takes years to move through federal permitting, exploration and development. The U.S. Minerals Management Service notes that only one of three wells results in a discovery of oil that can be recovered economically. In deeper water, it’s one of five. All this involves huge risks, capital investment – and time.
transportation = 30% energy consumption in US
Meh… close enuff [it’s 30% in Ireland]
28.1%
Though that “transportation” includes “Highway, Class I rail, Amtrak, Transit, Commuter rail, heavy rail Light rail Navigable channels Oil pipeline and Gas pipeline.” We’re not talking about just our Giant SUV™s, here… [Which, not so incidentally, appear to be more economical than mass transit. And give you more freedom, too.]
The O-bamn claims about his votes on infanticide have been brilliantly checked - over time - by Ed Morrissey here, and in linked previous posts.
Bottom line:
Obama voted against the bill that would have protected infants born alive even after the “neutrality clause” he demanded was added to protect abortion in Illinois. That is the truth in this case, and Obama lied
One last courtesy FAKT CHEK for The That One’s foreign-policy-expert running mate: [you get to do the heavy lifting on this one, yourself]
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