Rep. Graves Calls GOP’s Billions In Oil Subsidies ‘Market Manipulation;’ Forgets That He Voted To Extend Them

DUH! Once again we see rep-tiles speaking from one of the four mouths facing each direction of the compass. Prior figures calculated total OIL subsidies around 80 billion. Four billion in one instance grossly downplays the enormity of the tax payer rip off!

There they go again- the "Tax and spend" Republicans with their big government subsides.

The diference from Democrats is the Republicans want to tax the poor and subsidize the rich.

They are the anti-Robin Hoods.

======" GRAVES: Hm. Yeah as far as subsidies, I mean I believe in the free market system all together, the capitalism system one hundred percent. Let the markets determine who is going to succeed throughout the market place."====

I think he means the capitalists who write him checks. You just have to define what free market means----it means that the capitalists who write him checks are free to do whatever they want throughout the market place.

I am so Damn sick of these lying assholes.
Makes me want to borrow a hundred cobras from the zoo and turn them loose in the Capitol Building.
Grrr..

I wish that reporter would have reminded him that he voted for the big oil slush fund twice. What's amazing is that big oil is recording record breaking profits while simultaneously not paying a dime in taxes.

The peoples taxes are helping the oil companies line their pockets and we get higher gasoline prices as our "thank you".

Don't forget that they also want to cut funding for Elizabeth Warrens Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, She wants to come down hard on the bankers that are rubber-stamping foreclosures and make they pay up for the damage they've done.

They also want to defund Planned Parenthood who helps millions of women with breast cancer screenings, cervical cancer pap smears, HIV testing for both men and women, access to contraceptives and education about family planning.
They also want to shut down all but ONE Poison Control Center. Every state currently has one and they get a phone call every 5 minutes and their help keeps millions out of the emergency room and saves our country a lot of money.

These pukes can give tax breaks to the rich and profitable companies, and then kick people off H.C.T.C. that helps people with the high cost of health insurance. There is class war fare

He just covered in oil money.

I can not recall that Sir, I don't remember that sir, I am unaware of that and have no recollection. Have you heard these ones before?

Teach them to your children, they may need them.

I've got to hand it to 'em......Republicans are just plain better at Marketing than Democrats.

THis boy has a lot of "Trouble" recalling ethics problems.

"In 2009, the House Ethics Committee began inquiring whether or not Graves used his position on the Small Business Committee to invite Brooks Hurst, a longtime friend and a business partner of his wife, to testify at a committee hearing on the federal regulation of biodiesel and ethanol production. Graves had failed to mention the financial link between Hurst and Lesley Graves at the hearing, which dealt with federal subsidies for renewable fuels. A review by the independent Office of Congressional Ethics found "substantial reason to believe that an appearance of conflict of interest was created."

The Office of Congressional Ethics referred the case to the House Ethics committee, which ended its own investigation in October, and released a report finding no ethical violations, as it asserted there was no standard in place for appearances like Hurst's."

In other words, he found a New way to break Ethics Rules.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Graves

He didn't forget. He knows damn-well what he did.

He, like all the professional extreme right-wing radical Republican politicians, believes he can lie his way out of it. Until recently, he/they have been correct. But the dynamic is changing. Americans are finally remembering that actions speak louder than words. His actions show his true colors.

Either he had a vapor lock or he admitted that he failed to uphold his core values of the free market system. What he definitively did was fail his constituents by voting for more subsidies to bloated mega corporations.

do republicans know how to read. I guess not.

I'm beginning to suspect that the right-wingers close their eyes and mutter eeny-meeny-miny-mo to themselves while they vote.
Either that or they are Bald-Faced LIARS!
Lying would probably be easier for them since they obviously have no idea what they are doing or can't read at all.
"I do not recall if I was issued a brain"

does he just vote on stuff without knowing