Yes, I read paleocon blogs, too.

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From http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2008/07/29/el-rushbore/:

Limbaugh endorses China’s fuel subsidies:

Folks, I don’t know what the price of gasoline is in China and I don’t know to what extent, if any, it is subsidized — okay, it is subsidized. See, the ChiComs need their economy growing. They need people driving around, moving around. They need people to be able to afford fuel, so they’re subsidizing fuel. They’re not bailing people out of stupid home mortgage messes. They’re buying their gasoline for them, because they need an economy. Know what energy means to this, the whole subject of economic growth. So meanwhile, the ChiComs, a country certainly growing, certainly on the rise, but it ain’t the United States of America. How does it make you feel that Zhang Linsen has a big Hummer with nine speakers blaring as he pulls out into a four-lane road with so much smog he basically can’t see the car in front of him, and you are trading in all of your cars and trying to go out and find basically a lawn mower.

It’s amazing what passes for conservatism these days. The market is currently dictating that Americans become more fuel efficient, which Limbaugh apparently disapproves of. Imagine the uproar if Obama or Clinton said that the U.S. should become more like China.

(Via Daniel Larison, who adds: "Actually, it makes me feel relieved that I don’t live in smog-infested cities where marathoners collapse and die because of the pollution.")

Comments

[ishaa.livejournal.com]

I dunno, dude. The best cure for high prices might be high prices when you're talking about things that people don't need.

Sometimes "growing the economy" doesn't mean "golden toilets for the plutocrats". Sometimes it means "having enough food and medicine and electricity and clothing and computers for a billion people."

Rising gas costs are going to make everything more expensive, including food, which comes to my local grocery store on a truck from Iowa or California or somewhere. I can try to be more of a locavore but I'm not so sure there are 8 million people's worth of food production within 100 miles of here.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

The best cure for high prices might be high prices when you're talking about things that people don't need.

Who decides?

[ishaa.livejournal.com]

Policy wonks, for preference. But we don't get to vote for those. We only get to hope that they won't lose their jobs over politics.

[st-rev.livejournal.com]

You are the devil.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Now, now. I went to his wedding, and I can attest to the fact that he's a pirate, not a devil.

[st-rev.livejournal.com]

Bah! Pirates make policy wonks walk the plank, they don't make them kings!

[ishaa.livejournal.com]

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1236

[st-rev.livejournal.com]

PIRATES DO NOT LISTEN TO IRA GLASS

[ishaa.livejournal.com]

They do if they download the MP3s off BitTorrent