Say Anything Blog

This is cross posted at TakingBackND.com, headquartered on the right side of the state.

As promised I'm going to cover the second half of Byron Dorgan's interview in the Fargo Forum that ran Sunday and Monday. I posted on the first part Monday evening here.

This half of the interview covered different material than the first half. Still the more he talks the sillier he looks.

[Forum]Who do you see in the next race for president?

[Dorganoff] Well, if I were betting, I’d say (Sen.) John McCain likely could be the Republican nominee. And John probably wouldn’t like me to say that.

John’s a good friend, and I like him a lot. I’ve worked with him a lot over a few years, and I think he’s likely to be the Republican.

They will try to stop him as they did in South Carolina. There’s a faction of the Republican Party that just does not like him. But I think that he’s likely to get the nomination.

Sounds like Byron Dorgan's working another conspiricy theory here. "They" will try to stop him. I suppose he's referring to the urban legend that the South Carolina primary was a dirty one. I've looked for evidence of that and I've challenged people to find it. It didn't happen but for conspiricy freaks a lack of evidence is enough evidence all by itself. Do you suppose Senator Dorgan's still spreading his Bin Laden Conspricy theory to those that still listen?

While we're talking about Senator Dorgan's friend John McCain I have two questions the forum should have asked. "Is the reason John McCain exempted indian tribes from his campaign finance law because Senator McCain receives as much or more indian-casino money than anybody else." "Is the reason why you, Senator Dorgan supported this law because you receive almost as much indian-casino money as McCain?"

[Forum]What’s going on with your oil company windfall profits tax?

[Dorganoff]I lost it. We had a vote, and the oil companies have a lot of friends. And you see the price of oil going up again, gas going up again now, and the oil companies are reporting record profits...

Sounds like more conspiricies. My mama had a saying that fits Senator Dorgan's "Windfall Profits Tax": "Socialism is as Socialism does." If you want to know more about his tax scheme read here.

[Forum]What is the biggest issue facing the nation right now?

[Dorganoff] Probably the international issues. But it’s linked with Iraq, with what’s going on with Pakistan at the moment, with Sharon lying deathly ill in Israel....

...There are issues I’m working on that I care a lot about – international trade. We’re importing every day of the year $2 billion more than we export, which means we’re selling part of our country every day. When we import $2 billion more than we export every day, we put American dollars in the hands of foreigners who then can use it to buy stocks and property in our country. It’s a dangerous thing. We’re importing both energy and food, and exporting jobs. Boy, that’s a recipe for disaster. I spend a lot of time on the floor of the Senate talking about that and what we should do about it.

I see that Senator Dorgan spends a lot of time on the floor of the Senate talking about what we should do about this. You know I watch C-Span2 on occasion. Usually someone's talking but nobody's there to listen.

Senator Dorgan's ready to talk to an empty room, but he's not willing to tell us what his secret plans are. Maybe he doesn't think his scheme to fix the problem will pass muster with people with common sense.

Senator Dorgan apparently doesn't want foreigners to own stock in American Corporations. However he doesn't seem to want Americans owning that stock either. I've got an idea Senator. Why don't you propose allowing individuals to take some of our money we're paying into Social Security and invest that money into the stock market. There'd be so much US money going into the stock market we wouldn't have to worry about a thing.

The solution to the balance of trade as I see is to quit punishing the productive people in this country. If we get the government out of the way nobody can compete with the American Economy.