May 26, 2016, 06:47 PM
mbinky
quote:Originally posted by jehzsa:
Replying to President Obama's comments that D. Trump is "ignorant of world affairs", the Prime Minister of Japan stated, "I want a biggie bomb!".
quote:Obama takes swipe at Trump overseas
quote:Originally posted by sdy:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/26/...=twlead0526rubiointv
Marco Rubio says he plans to attend the Republican convention, will release his delegates to vote for Donald Trump and would be willing to speak on Trump's behalf.
"I want to be helpful. I don't want to be harmful, because I don't want Hillary Clinton to be president," Rubio told CNN's Jake Tapper in an interview.
quote:Originally posted by jtedescucci:
Quote:"Paul Ryan better be watching this. His playing hard-to-get act is getting a little tiresome."
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And to think that he (Ryan) came reasonably close to being vice president, and by logical extension - one heartbeat away from president.
quote:Originally posted by Mainframe Coder:quote:Originally posted by jtedescucci:
Quote:"Paul Ryan better be watching this. His playing hard-to-get act is getting a little tiresome."
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And to think that he (Ryan) came reasonably close to being vice president, and by logical extension - one heartbeat away from president.
Regardless of what happens from here forward, the big loser in this election year appears to be Ryan. I don't see a way he salvages his rep at this point.
quote:BISMARCK, N.D. (Reuters) – Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, promised on Thursday to roll back some of America’s most ambitious environmental policies, actions that he said would revive the ailing U.S. oil and coal industries and bolster national security.
Among the proposals, Trump said he would pull the United States out of the U.N. global climate accord, approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada and rescind measures by President Barack Obama to cut U.S. emissions and protect waterways from industrial pollution.
“Any regulation that’s outdated, unnecessary, bad for workers or contrary to the national interest will be scrapped and scrapped completely,” Trump told about 7,700 people at the Williston Basin Petroleum Conference in Bismarck, the capital of oil-rich North Dakota. “We’re going to do all this while taking proper regard for rational environmental concerns.”
It was Trump’s first speech detailing the energy policies he would advance if elected president. He received loud applause from the crowd of oil executives.
The comments painted a stark contrast between the New York billionaire and his Democratic rivals for the White House, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, who advocate a sharp turn away from fossil fuels and toward renewable energy technologies to combat climate change.
Trump slammed both rivals in his speech, saying their policies would kill jobs and force the United States “to be begging for oil again” from Middle East producers.
“It’s not going to happen. Not with me,” he said.
Trump’s comments drew quick criticism from environmental advocates, who called his proposals “frightening.”
“Trump’s energy policies would accelerate climate change, protect corporate polluters who profit from poisoning our air and water, and block the transition to clean energy that is necessary to strengthen our economy and protect our climate and health,” said Tom Steyer, a billionaire environmental activist.
But industry executives cheered the stance.
“It’s simple. If Trump wins, oil field workers will be happy. If Clinton wins, oil workers will be unhappy,” said Derrick Alexander, an operations manager at oilfield services firm Integrated Productions Services.
Trump hit Clinton hard in his speech, saying the former secretary of state would be more aggressive than Obama on regulations. He repeated several times Clinton’s March comments that her policies would put coal miners out of work.
“Hillary Clinton’s agenda is job destruction,” Trump said.
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Trump said slashing regulation would help the United States achieve energy independence and reduce America’s reliance on Middle Eastern producers. “Imagine a world in which oil cartels will no longer use energy as a weapon,” he said.
The United States currently produces about 55 percent of the oil it uses, with another quarter of the total coming from Canada and Mexico, and less than 20 percent coming from OPEC, according to U.S. Energy Department statistics.
Trump’s advisers, including U.S. Representative Kevin Cramer of North Dakota, have said they suggested Trump examine the role of OPEC in the global oil price slump since 2014, which has contributed to the demise of a handful of smaller U.S. oil companies. Saudi Arabia and other OPEC members have declined to cut production to support prices.
Until Thursday, Trump had been short on details of his energy policy. He has said he believes global warming is a hoax, that his administration would revive the U.S. coal industry, and that he supports hydraulic fracturing – an environmentally controversial drilling technique that has triggered a boom in U.S. production.
Earlier this month, he told Reuters in an interview that he would renegotiate “at a minimum” the U.N. global climate accord agreed by 195 countries in Paris last December, saying he viewed the deal as bad for U.S. business.
He took that a step further in North Dakota. “We’re going to cancel the Paris climate agreement,” he said.
Trump also promised he would invite Canadian pipeline company TransCanada <TRP.TO> to reapply to build the Keystone XL pipeline into the United States, reversing a decision by Obama to block the project over environmental concerns.
“I want it built, but I want a piece of the profits,” Trump said. “That’s how we’re going to make our country rich again.”
Trump’s pledge briefly sent TransCanada’s shares 29 Canadian cents higher to C$54.13 on the Toronto Stock Exchange, but the stock quickly leveled back off and close up 2 Canadian cents at C$53.86.
In response to Trump’s promise that he would seek more profits from the pipeline, TransCanada spokesman James Millar noted the project would create jobs, offer major contracts to U.S. suppliers and provide tens of millions in taxes for state coffers.
“The pipeline will benefit American workers longer term as the companies they work for have signed contracts to ship and refine oil through Keystone XL,” Millar said in an email.
quote:Originally posted by Bassamatic:
In an earlier interview, Hannity I believe, Trump made it very clear that he would reverse most if not all of Obama's Executive Orders. He also made it clear that the EPA would be scaled back significantly.
On another note, did anyone else catch that round table discussion Megyn Kelly had on Trump tonight? She chose the most pathetic bunch of anti-Trump people you could imagine. Damn, she even had the guy in charge of Mitt Romney's campaign. Megyn went back to her old Trump hating ways which, I have to admit, kind of surprised me after their peace offering meeting they had a while back. Lipstick on a pig I guess.
quote:Originally posted by Mainframe Coder:
Trump vows to undo Obama's climate agenda nonsense. He is pushing all the right buttons!
quote:Originally posted by Mainframe Coder:
Trump vows to undo Obama's climate agenda nonsense. He is pushing all the right buttons!
quote:TRUMPREPUBLICAN PARTYSets Primary Turnout Record – 28 Million Votes with 5 States Left
quote:Here's the key to winning in November Turn Out. 2008 and 2012 had the same percentage of votes between the candidates But 13,000,000 less people voted.
quote:Originally posted by ryan81986:
The Trump vs Bernie debate could be huge. If Trump refrains from any personal attacks on Bernie, and simply states his case, he may be able to win a lot of the die hard Sanders of supporters who can't stand Clinton.
quote:Originally posted by Chris17404:
Exactly. Plus, it makes Hillary look like an unimportant nobody.
quote:Originally posted by mbinky:
Oldie but a goodie.
