No, I hadn’t heard about that, but it’s time for an open thread. Because the real news is that Schumer+Obama are going to save the day across the tri-state area tomorrow because they finally released the gasoline supplies on Thursday by relaxing EPA regulations for the types of gasoline that can be distributed.

http://articles.marketwatch.com/2012-11-01/markets/34850859_1_gasoline-lines-at-gas-stations-east-coast

They waited until yesterday to waive the restrictions on reformulated gasoline, and that could have been done a lot earlier: on Monday. In anticipation of the largest storm event in the universe, they really should have waived the reformulated regulations last Saturday or Sunday. If they had taken that sensible step — since they knew where the hurricane was going — it would have spared everyone in New Jersey and New York a lot of trouble, a lot of heartache, and a lot of suffering.

Now it seems as though they’re coming to their “rescue” when in fact they waited until people started screaming on Staten Island, pulling guns on each other in New Jersey, and Schumer could be there to hear it and promise the gasoline was coming.

Dead silence on this issue here at Redstate but the gasoline WAS IN New Jersey on Monday it just could not be SHIPPED AND SOLD until the EPA temporarily waived its regs.

It looks a lot to me like the Obama EPA waited until the moment of maximum pain to waive a regulation that could have saved a lot of suffering.

Things are REALLY bad in New Jersey and in New York. In terms of gasoline supplies, a lot of it was purely unnecessary. Temporarily waiving the EPA requirement for reformulated gas should have been a step taken preemptively to ease supply problems IN ADVANCE of the storm – they knew how big it was, and they knew where it was going. We knew in Massachusetts on SATURDAY.

That step wasn’t taken until everyone in New Jersey and New York started to FREAK OUT and get covered by the local news.

There would have been nothing wrong with holding the marathon this weekend if the rest of the region had a little relief in terms of basic supplies like gasoline. The problem is that the Obama EPA waited until Thursday to temporarily waive the restriction. It would have been fine for Bloomberg and New York and everyone in the marathon to have it’s showpiece “bounce back” event – I actually agree with Bloomberg that it would have been a good thing to do – but only if the people at even higher levels than Bloomberg had a lick of sense and had allowed the nonreformulated gasoline to reach people throuought the area.

You can’t have people on Staten Island in the staging area who cannot feed their children because their cars are out of gas at the same time you’re organizing an event like that. But changing the EPA regs to temporarily waive that requirement is not in his purview. To people like Cuomo, Schumer and Obama, there were larger political reasons at stake.

I suspect Bloomberg actually held out to the last minute on the Marathon because the generators were privately funded. The Road Runners bought and paid for the generation capacity. Don’t blame the wrong people. There was nothing wrong intrinsically with holding the marathon this weekend – except for the fact that too many other people in the region are needlessly – NEEDLESSLY – suffering because of a gasoline shortage that could have been abated with the stroke of a pen last Saturday instead of THIS FRIDAY.

Right, I’m sorry too for the threadjack. It had to be said. There was no other good place to put it. Please move the messages or ask us to retype them, I’ll be happy to.

“Because the real news is that Schumer+Obama are going to save the day across the tri-state area tomorrow because they finally released the gasoline supplies on Thursday…”

‘Save the day?’ Good Lord, that’s not unlike the old Jackie Mason joke where he says that one time Frank Sinatra actually saved his life – ‘Sinatra said ‘Okay, he’s had enough, boys.’

I’m not sure if the numbers would change that much for Obama no matter what he does this weekend. Let’s face it, anyone who is truly undecided at this point – after 4 years of Obamanomics and inept Foreign Policy – is beyond question a ass or an idiot and Obama’s had the ass/idiot vote locked down for a long time now. I can’t believe that any voter with the vision and common sense to realize how desperately America needs a new, capable leader in the WH would change their mind because of four days’ events, and anyone dumb enough to vote for more Zer0 because of a final Hail Mary pass was probably dumb enough to decide to vote for him anyway.

We have older Republican family members who have had to be moved from their assisted living or senior residences this week, and believe me if Obama himself delivered food, gas and generators to their front doors yesterday, they’d still kill me if I even ~suggested~ casting a vote for him.

I still say that Dem vultures circling the scene to feed off this tragedy will not move any significant support away from Romney. (R) voters are a pretty smart lot. And I think the tiny fraction of folks moved positively by such an incident toward BHO are amongst the most casual, least motivated voters, who are unlikely to even get to the polls.

This guy Howey is a known statist here in the hoosier state. tries to pose himself as an objective analyst, but you pretty much kjnow what his ‘analysis’ is going to be before he gives it on any issue.

of course the indystar seems to prop him up as their best offering for political anaysis/opinion. It’s pretty much good for the bird cage and that’s about it.

Here’s a good background of the Howey poll on Mourdock. The pollster Yang works for Axelrod. Was actually supoena’d in the Blagojevich case…

so is Howey a hack? Naaaaaa!

http://advanceindiana.blogspot.com/2012/11/rasmussen-shows-closer-mourdock.html

Lugar RINO POC, is trying to spitefully ruin a republican’s chances!

We won’t, earlgrey…as I have been telling you for weeks. I’m here on the ground…and I’m telling you support for Donnelly is scarce.

That makes me want to puke, kowalski. The pandering is just as likely to further insult peoples’ dignity as it is to be appreciated. The Dems just keep getting more and more out of tune when it comes to hitting the right note. But, this is the Socialist President’s way forward — stick his hands in our pockets to give handouts as he deems fit in order to win favor from others. Repugnant.

PIns and needles. I swore two weeks ago I was done giving for the season, and have since sent in 3 donations one of which was for Mourdock. Kid needs braces, glasses and we need a new roof. I am glad this election is almost over! I really wish I was one of those women with a shoe obsesssion instead of an election obsession.
The fam. is about to have a stroke over Mourdock and your state superintendent of education race. I advised my mom to ask voters if they want to ride in a car engineered by people that can’t do algebra. One response: they do all that in Japan anyway.

The catastrophe comes when an inexperienced politician endorses the right position with the entirely wrong words…

The ‘right’ words are something like:

‘I oppose exceptions for rape, because they punish an innocent child for the sins of an abjectly evil father’.

It explains the same no-abortions-no-exceptions position, but without saying something that any-idiot should know would be twisted by the media into ‘Rape is God’s plan’ (even though that is not what was said)….

Remember, Flagstaff…they were wrong before 1980 as well. GOTV, GOTV, GOTV…we can’t lose if we do.