China has to get that oil -- and if there is nowhere else to go it will go to Sudan, Zimbabwe, Angola where the Western powers are not engaged.

That's when the dream is so far off it seems like it will never happen. It can be most anything you want it to be.

Our mentality on offense is we want to impose our will whoever we're facing. We were able to do that.

We will fight this nomination tooth and nail. We have taken the position of: By all means necessary.

This will never happen again.

The fact that oil is remaining above $40 leaves me all the more convinced that core CPI will continue to climb higher, that we're on the verge of having the annual rate break above 2 percent.