Mark Warner to Auction Off-Shore Drilling Rights?
Friday, June 20, 2008 at 12:46AM Think the above bi-line is crazy? I don't. Mark Warner became a multi millionaire by using insider information as a Congressional aide to begin auctioning off US Govt. owned frequencies now used by cellular phone companies nationwide. Do you think that if he had the same chance to auction off-shore drilling rights, he would have jumped at that opportunity also?
Take a look at this map, and simply put a grid system over it and give Warner the rights to auction off the grids to the highest bidder. He gets a big fat commission on each deal, and we the consumer could at least get some relief from higher fuel prices; because supply will simply be closer to home, and increased in general.
What always gives me a chuckle is how the MSM refer to Warner as a cell phone 'pioneer'. Undoubtedly if a Republican were to have done the same thing he would be referred to as a cell phone 'pirate'. It's amazing where a party label, and a penchant for raising taxes can get you among the ranks of the modern day Main Stream Media.
Can you see our buddy, Bob 'Hatchet Job' Lewis doing a little research and reminding the folks of this quote, while making it relevent from cell phones to gas pumps?:
When a cell phone rings in the audience, he will invariably pause. “Those cell phones,” he likes to say. “Most people consider them an annoyance, but I just hear ‘cha-ching, cha-ching.’”
Yeah right... Check out the closing paragraph of this article.. the MSM will do what?:
Whether Warner can sell himself to the American voter—which is in no small part a matter of selling his life story—is a different question. Warner’s cellular-license-flipping exploits undoubtedly will draw some pointed questions from the national press corps. But then, too, Hillary Clinton will probably have to explain, once again, how she managed, long ago, to pocket a tidy sum by trading cattle-futures contracts. Americans, in any case, seldom resent a politician’s wealth. Back in 1976, they elected a millionaire peanut farmer, Jimmy Carter, who was also, like Warner, a one-term governor of a southern state. Behind every great fortune, Americans tend to believe, is the story of a winner.
Reality... the MSM will roll over like a lap dog as Warner pats their little quivering bellies, and save the pointed questions for any Conservative that would dare actually advocate for the taxpayer/consumer in America. Six billion dollar deficit anyone?




Reader Comments (6)
Oh Spanky... Just think, the Chinese already drill right near America. Just think if they offered him a pretty penny
Is there something in the Commonwealth's constitution that gives the governor alone, without any voting by senators and representatives, the right to auction off-shore drilling rights?
Is the Governor of Virginia really given that incredible power?
Or are you talking about Warner as a private citizen? And what is MSM? I'm not dumb but uninformed.
Spanky, it would appear that Ottie doesn't know what tongue in cheek is... He would fail to use the same logic when they blame the nation wide recession of 2000-2001 on Gov Gilmore. Was Gov. Gilmore really that incredibly powerful that he could put the entire nation into recession?
Who has blamed Gilmore for the 2000-2001 recession? Haven't heard that before. MSM???
Ottie:
We're be facetious...
Although I think they have Bob Lewis working on that angle ;-)
No no no Ottie: Mark Warner blames Gilmore for the recession of 2000/2001 but just spins it into the lie of the deficit.
Call me whacky, but doesn't MSM mean Main Stream Media? I like Rush Limbaugh's Drive-by Media.