Comments on: ‘Who is this chickenshit?’ redux: Franken-Pickens fracas recalls Wellstone

By: huh

huh — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:56:31 +0000

Good job,speaking out for the common man,with guys like you there is hope after all!

By: Casey

Casey — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:56:59 +0000

Anyone that voted for Al Franken is an idiot. Simple.

By: MN Steve

MN Steve — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:26:27 +0000

Texas Steve,

Stay in TX and do not come here to tell us who to elect. You idiots put the Shrub in power after
funding his stadium with taxpayer money and then destroyed the rest of the country with
the Decider and you have the gall to tell us who to elect?

Without us you would still be a slave state.

By: Lazercat

Lazercat — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 04:20:37 +0000

But Pickens’s lobbying powers aren’t limited to the Lone Star state. Pickens testified yesterday in front of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. Pickens told Congress to expand the scope of eminent domain and right-of-way, which are currently controlled at the state level, so companies like his Mesa Wind and Water can operate across state lines.

“All I’m doing is selling surplus water,” Pickens tells Business Week. The very idea of “surplus water” exemplifies how Pickens can make anything into a commodity, from water to political will.

Our surplus water.

By: Lazercat

Lazercat — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 04:17:49 +0000

T boone talks about wind, but what he is buying is water rights. Pickens wants to pipeline the Great lakes to the southwest to sell to the highest bidder.

If water is the new oil, T. Boone Pickens is a modern-day John D. Rockefeller. Pickens owns more water than any other individual in the U.S. and is looking to control even more. He hopes to sell the water he already has, some 65 billion gallons a year, to Dallas, transporting it over 250 miles, 11 counties, and about 650 tracts of private property.

By: Lazercat

Lazercat — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 04:14:09 +0000

T boone talks about wind, but what he is buying is water rights. Pickens wants to pipeline the Great lakes to the southwest to sell to the highest bidder.

By: lee

lee — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 20:55:10 +0000

It continues to amaze me how liberals believe that a government will somehow take from the haves and give it to the have-nots without any strings attached (that means control, since I have to spell it out for them). If you liberals believe that “the” government you want to hand control over your lives to, while dragging the rest of us with you will never turn on you, well it will be too late and you obviously haven’t really thought that through. Do you think democrats will always control the levers of power? If you do, then you are deluded. When those evil republicans take control, and they will, then that power you gave away will be turned against you. How can you not see this? If you just do not care, well then I will enjoy watching you eat that shit sandwich you forced on the rest of us.

Oh, and regarding pickens vs al- billionaire vs not funny comedian.
Run along now, back to your daily kooks.

By: Amuseinc

Amuseinc — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 15:07:42 +0000

This is exactly why I worked for his election, voted for him. We need more like him in the Senate… instead of these ass kissing senators with their hands out to any bigwig they meet.

By: AliceJo

AliceJo — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 08:53:11 +0000

I didn’t like Franken as a comedian, didn’t think he was funny, but am starting to like him as a senator.

By: jonathan

jonathan — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 22:16:18 +0000

Way to go Al! Give ‘em hell!!