Your Liberal Delusion Du Jour…
Written by Daisy // January 4, 2012 // The Makeover And/Or Miscellaneous // 20 Comments
This is what delusion looks like:
That’s Rep. John Dingell, and even though he resides in Michigan, it’s clear that he’s living in La-La Liberal land.
“Following Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney’s claim that the Chevrolet Volt is an “idea whose time has not come,” Dingell apparently issued a press release that said, in part:
Romney is the only fellow in the United States who appears to think that the Volt is an idea whose time has not come. Clearly it has not come to him. The Volt is selling like hotcakes.
He’s the “only fellow,” y’all. Yep. The only one. I mean, no one else has provided data – you know, those FACT things – that show precisely how much of an epic sales fail the Volt has been.
Nah – it’s just Romney. What a MEEEEANIE to poo-poo on the La La Liberal Land parade.
Never mind the embarrassing sales figures for the Volt as evidenced in approximately a GAZILLION FREAKIN PLACES (again, let me Google that for you!), but this complete waste of 40 grand also has the added benefit of catching on fire.
Hotcakes. Yeeeeeaaaah. There there, Mr. Politician Man. Time to put back on the jacket that ties in the back now.
Ah yes. Reality and the liberal. Like oil and water, only exponentially more annoying.
20 Comments on "Your Liberal Delusion Du Jour…"
I’m not particularly fond of hotcakes. I’m even less fond of lying, liberal jack-wagons.
He needs to be “Perry-ied”.
Selling like hotcakes Dingle (side-bar for gratuitous shot at his name…OK, I’ll take the high road, but KNOW y’all are thinking exactly the same as me)? REALLY? Show me the data?
Seriously Republican candidates. Get your heads out from being firmly implanted in your a$$ular area and…can you just say…SHOW ME THE DATA??????? Think Jerry McGuire…you can do it…I know you can.
QUIT FRIGGIN’ LETTING DEMOCRATS CONTROL THE NARRATIVE WITHOUT CHALLENGE!!!!
What Carolyn said, although I would add the (so-called) media.
We can all pretend Dingleberry is being honest ’cause he is probably referring to dealer inventory – which would be dishonest. But that’s really close for a liberal on the truth meter.
I graduated General Motor Institute (now Kettering) in 1983. Several of my contemporaries are associated with this vehicle. Koolaid drinkers all.
The Volt, as implemented, is a stupid idea. There are no unique ideas, no intellectual property and no quantum improvements. It’s a hybrid knock off, licensing technologies from others who know what they are doing. If that is not bad enough, it has been manufactured using batteries that were selected by politicians rather than engineers (so now the Volt catches fire, because of the batteries).
If GM had gone through a real bankruptcy, this project would have been flushed, like the turd in a punch bowl that it is, on the first day of bankruptcy proceedings.
GM is going to go bankrupt again as soon as it loses its poltical “most favored company” status. The Volt proves my point.
The Volt should be the new symbol of democrats: Stupid, Incompetent, and likely to harm anyone near them.
Call him on it!
https://dingell.house.gov/contact/email-me.shtml
It isn’t just the Volt that has fire problems. It appears electric cars in general are having problems with fires. Also lawsuits abound against hybrids since they lose mpg with use. You might start out getting 50mpg but with a little use you won’t. Like all batteries full power is not given with usage. Basic physics class in High School tells that is a “DUH!” Hell my toothbrush doesn’t have full power with usage either. That is how batteries work. they store energy, they don’t create energy. Big difference.
It appears that Dems got together in their smoke filled rooms and decided to pull a Goebbels. Deny what is right in front of your face repeatedly and hope people buy the lie. Rinse. Repeat. DWS put out her marching orders.
Who’d want to buy a car that explodes? You don’t see lots of pintos out there for a reason too. Dingle-berry is just that…
All sorts of green projects have their own carbon footprint issue…
I’m actually genuinely curious as to whether any Democrat politicians, including Dingell, drive Volts. I wonder how many of them have purchased a Volt for their spouses/children/parents, and then proudly proclaim that what they’re pitching is good enough for them.
Not many (if any), I bet.
For every Chevy Volt to drive off a car lot (and believe me, this is GM’s BIGGEST failure yet–as I’m sure there are more coming), taxpayers are on the hook for $250,000, as the government pissed away more taxpayer dollars by funding the whole GM bailout. You know, picking winners and losers and where taxpayers never see any returns on their “investment?” Sheesh.
http://thenewamerican.com/economy/sectors-mainmenu-46/10295-each-chevy-volt-costs-taxpayers-250000
Another thing I find simply fascinating is that libtards believe these cars are better for the environment than a vehicle that runs on good ol’ petrol products. Not once do they stop to wonder where the power to create the electricity for these silly little cars come from. Hey idiots: IT COMES FROM POWER PLANTS! You know, the coal-fired plants, natural gas plants, and nuclear plants that you are so concerned are ruining our planet? So suck on that next time you’re driving around so smugly in your “green” Prius at 45 mph down the interstate.
…and as the first law of thermodynamic states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed (it merely changes forms) it really doesn’t matter a whole hill of beans how the energy is harvested–it all has the SAME impact on our closed environment, affectionately known as, Earth.
I don’t see how the Volt is selling like hotcakes when it failed the abysmal sale goal of 10,000 for 2011. The insanely high cost is, IMO, what keeps it from going mainstream. I actually like the look compared to all the other hybrid/electric cars out there but still, when you look at the world as it really is, you know, logically… you’d see that electric cars will not save us.
I look at what happened during the two in a row power outages these past few months in New England and other areas. What did everyone do? They fired up their GAS powered generators and could still use their vehicles because they could keep filling it with GAS. Both tasks would be impossible if it weren’t for gas. Solar would never have provided the necessary power and capability.
Gas will simply never be replaced because it can’t. From a power stand point of view, we have to use every possible power source to keep up with demand. The idea of “alternative” fuels will forever remain impossible unless more than half the population dies.
Folks, don’t forget something VERY important here. There’s every chance that this guy knows the reality and is just happily ignoring it. You see, creating perception carries a great deal of weight in today’s society. For all the bad press the Volt has continuted to get, and it has, liberals really believe that they can change public opinion with words alone. And sadly, they can.
This fits neatly into the “Atlas Shrugged” or “1984″ category of government-speak. Reality just plainly doesn’t matter. They create the emotional appeal with words and then use words to create a perception that directly opposes the facts. They follow that up with an emotional appeal that suggests the facts aren’t valid because they disagree with the original emotional appeal.
Reality just doesn’t matter because reality isn’t what they want and what they want is clearly right, because they want it.
Dingell is living in a reality of his own making! Majordawg’s comment is very much on target.
As to the Chevy Volt, a few observations.
1. It couldn’t and won’t work in my neck of the woods (especially with the CO winters). And it really wouldn’t work in places like Wyoming (my home state) or Montana where the commute to anywhere is a minimum of 25 miles one way – ranch to town- or 70 miles from one town to another. Unless you want to tote a recharging station with you? And hope that the cold temps don’t cause the car to come to a dead stop?
2. Was talking with a couple of tow truck drivers (one of whom owns his company) about the Volt. They’ve researched it and if they have a call to jump start one they are inclined to call the fire department for assistance. Why? Because if they run the connections wrong they could blow the car and themselves up! Makes me want to run right out and buy one don’tcha know??
3. This guy has done some serious research on the Volt. His articles are pretty comprehensive and could really put a dent in Dingell’s reality:
https://statelymcdanielmanor.wordpress.com/category/electric-vehicles/
I’m all for alternative fuels and hybrids, I think the idea of them is wonderful. But the technology just isn’t at the point yet where it pays off. Calling them a green technology is a bold faced lie. Maintenance on them is too high, the batteries are too environmentally destructive, and they still burn fossil fuels. Only the Fisker used recycled materials in it’s construction, and although that is a pretty car, it just isn’t affordable or even that good a car.
We’re seeing some great innovations and discoveries with solar power, but those technologies won’t be too useful until the panels can be made thinner without losing efficiency. Until then, we should continue as we are with the combustion engine, but at the same time develop new technology and create a new engine type. If you look at our modern automobile engines…they really have not changed that much in over a hundred years. The combustion engine is an old energy wasteful technology, it’s about time we discovered something better.
Yeah, the technology is not there, it is unlikely to be there for these greenie anti-technologies ever.
There are answers that don’t include the coal fired car solution of plugging in and waiting for the recharge forever to get to the store but they don’t include the wind or the sun and it does not fit the political point.
The point is control of the people, telling you what you will buy and where you will go, as you might notice what you can eat too. It has nothing whatsoever to do with saving the planet, as if we could actually do that. It’s all about the thumb of government holding you squirming to the mat and controlling absolutely everything.
MD and Thor nailed that.
GM to call back 8,000 electric Chevy Volts … General Motors plans to ask Volt owners to bring their electric cars into dealers to strengthen the structure around the batteries. …and involves the 8,000 Volts sold in the U.S. in the past two years
http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/05/9976867-gm-to-call-back-8000-electric-chevy-volts
Yep, selling like hotcakes. NOT!
Call back = recall in liberalspeak I guess. How kind of them to ask owners to bring in their cars BEFORE they explode into a ball of fire. Sheesh
Well, to be fair, it is the start of a new year and tons of people choose weight loss as their resolution. So maybe hotcakes are selling very well right now…
Er I meant hotcakes are NOT selling very well right now… need…. edit….button!