"High gas prices are a sign of a failed presidency" Cheney 1998- source?

[nytemare]

I saw this quote posted here a few days ago, I have googled it, and it comes up here and there, but no source. I was suprised it wasn't on Snopes.

Anybody know when or where and it what context this quote was made? I want to send it to a local radio host who is bitching about people bitching about high gas prices, and ask him why he disagrees with his man.

Thanks.

[Selatius]

1. I like your signature. It's funny. :)

[nytemare]

4. Thanks!

:hi:

[Ecumenist]

2. Hmmmm....

How're those chickens roosting, Dickie boy?

[Catrina]

3. *lol* ~ sorry, I don't know where that came from, but great idea re

the whining radio host.

[nytemare]

5. He is a prime example of the study over whiny kids and political

affiliation. If you whine about other people whining, there is a serious issue.

[niyad]

6. great sig--and, alas, so very, very true.

[dweller]

7. i thought it was *moron that said it

during the 2000 selection primaries.

:shrug:

dp

[Richard Steele]

8. Good luck- that quote has been WIPED from the internets.

I used that quote a year or so ago, here at DU.

I wanted to be ACCURATE, so I googled it....
several thousand hits, and I clicked the first one to get the year (1998).

I used it again, just last week, and I forgot the year again,
so I googled it AGAIN...

ONE HIT. ONE.

And that hit: my own DU post from last year.

You misquoted slightly; the actual quote was:
"Rising gas prices are the sign of a failed presidency"

And when I googled that entire phrase last year,
I got thousands of hits.
I Googled it again last week...they are all gone. Tumbleweeds and cricket-noises.

It has been WIPED.
Down the memory hole.

[nytemare]

11. Hmm.... maybe this would be good to pass on to Olbermann.

Or Randi Rhodes. There are a few hits on the incorrect quote I used. It must have been your post I saw.

When I googled it, I was wondering just that. What the hell happened to that quote. Most quotes, you get it half wrong and you get a thousand hits.

[Richard Steele]

19. " Most quotes, you get it half wrong and you get a thousand hits."

Exactly so.

And I got more than a thousand hits when I checked the date
last year. A lot more.

When I found it GONE last week,
I tried a few simple variations...
and all I found was one other quote by a poster on a different discussion board.

Our fears that they might someday take over the internet are moot;
they have been here for awhile, and they are rewriting history in their own image.

[nytemare]

20. Somewhere, there is a stupid quote eating virus in the internets!

Where is it? Will McAfee work on it??

[SpiralHawk]

13. Move along. There is nothing to see here.

Sit down, shut up, and eat your genetically mutant chco-rations.

There is nothing to see here.

High gas prices are good for Halliburton, and what is good for Halliburton is good for America.

Big BushCo loves you.

There is nothing to see here.

[bluedog]

15. googled the net.....mentioned on chat boards.found no source

High gas prices are a sign of a failed presidency."

~Dick Cheney, 1998

[nytemare]

17. That is what I got.

No context, date, nothing. This sucks. That is a good quote.

[Aviation Pro]

9. If this is attributed to Asshole's Fuckwad (Cheney)....

...then here's a little reminder for "Go Fuck Yourself": average price of a gallon of gas in 1998 for California, $1.16. Today's price in my area, $3.04.

Go fuck yourself, Prick, go fuck yourself.

[nytemare]

12. No kidding.

And this radio host was saying, "hey it's just an extra 30 bucks a week or so." That's 120 a month, that is a power bill. That is cable and a phone bill. That is 3 credit card payments.

[dweller]

10. see here

http://www.house.gov/georgemiller/press/rel33004.html


dp

[ComerPerro]

18. Yeah, I remember when all my RW realtives were complaining

about Clinton for those "obscene" prices of $1.15 a gallon, back in the late nineties...

[magellan]

14. I haven't found that exactly, but I did find something else interesting

Cheney: Cheerleader for OPEC

Let those Yankees in key Midwest battleground states freeze in the dark!

Posted Friday, July 28, 2000

"I am impressed by the extent to which OPEC seems to have got its act together. For the first time in a long time there is optimism."

Who said that? The Venezuelan oil minister? A high-ranking Saudi official? No. It was Dick Cheney, the GOP's vice-presidential candidate, speaking at an oil-drillers' conference in May 1999. What was he optimistic about? He was optimistic that the oil cartel would succeed in carrying out an agreement to cut world oil production, causing a rise in prices, which would benefit the oil services company of which Cheney was chairman and CEO. Cheney had said the same thing about a month earlier at an energy conference in New Orleans. ("There is a changed attitude inside OPEC. They might not get to 100 percent, but a certain amount of short-term optimism is justified.")

Cheney, of course, was only doing his job by rooting for OPEC. It's one of the larger dirty secrets of American life that many U.S. corporations, and the economy of much of the state of Texas, benefit when the international oil cartel succeeds in jacking up oil prices. But consumers in the rest of the United States, who must pay those higher prices--and who have been doing so, especially in the Midwest--may not appreciate this fine point.

Cheney's pro-OPEC statements would seem to give genuine ammunition to the Democrats. They fit in perfectly with the "Whose side are they on?" theme-making of Gore's consultants. They give Gore a killer debating point, especially in the heavily contested Midwest. They're even a legitimate target, in this sense: Lots of businessmen have an interest in higher prices, and that's an interest their customers might not deeply appreciate. But what Cheney was cheerleading for was something--collusion to raise prices--that would normally be illegal under the antitrust laws if it took place on American soil. What would happen if the CEO of a Detroit carmaker gave a speech saying he was "optimistic" that a production-cutting deal negotiated by the Big Three would hold? He might go to jail. He certainly wouldn't be nominated for vice president.

And to think the pundits said that high gas prices made Energy Secretary Bill Richardson electoral poison! Richardson has at least been trying to bargain OPEC down. Cheney apparently actually held meetings with Venezuelan officials--Venezuela being a country that in the past has "cheated" on OPEC by boosting production and upsetting the cartel's price-fixing regime. What did he tell them?

[liberal N proud]

16. As I walked out of work today, an guy said, I wonder if he will keep his

word and do something about the gas prices.
I looked at him as said why would he start now?

[borlis]

21. I remember it too!!!

I cant believe it's been pulled. WTF??

[liberal N proud]

22. Kick for the morning crowd

[nytemare]

23. Thanks

I wonder if it would come up in Lexis Nexus. Maybe I should e mail Franken, he loves Lexis.

[400Years]

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