There are no shortages of politicians making fools of themselves over the issue of “big oil” and gas prices. None more so than the California queens of counterproductivity, Barbara Boxer and Nancy Pelosi.
Going a Short Way to Make a Point
By Dana Milbank
Gas prices have gone above $3 a gallon again, and that means it’s time for another round of congressional finger-pointing.
“Since George Bush and Dick Cheney took over as president and vice president, gas prices have doubled!” charged Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), standing at an Exxon station on Capitol Hill where regular unleaded hit $3.10. “They are too cozy with the oil industry.”
She then hopped in a waiting Chrysler LHS (18 mpg) — even though her Senate office was only a block away.
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Nancy Pelosi’s deep thoughts on oil prices,
We have two oilmen in the White House…. The logical … follow-up from that is $3-a-gallon gasoline. There is no accident. It is a cause and effect…. a cause and effect.
Where have you been, Mr. President? The … middle class squeeze is on, competition in our country is effected by the price of … energy and of oil … and all of a sudden you take a trip outside of Washington, see that the fact that the public is … outraged about this, come home and make a speech. Let’s see that matched in your budget, let’s see that matched in your policy, let’s see that matched in your separating yourself from your … patron, Big Oil. Cut yourself off from that anvil that is holding … your party down and this country down. Instead of coming to Washington and throwing your Republican colleagues under the wheels of the train, which they mightily deserve for being a rubber stamp for your obscene, corrupt policy of ripping off the American people.
Thank you all very much.
HT: The New Editor