George Will continues to pummel the GOP Congress, and who can blame him?
Many Strange ‘Emergencies’
A poll shows that approval of the job Congress is doing has plunged to just 22 percent. One wonders: who are those 22 percent?
Even without the debacle of the Senate’s “emergency” legislation, April was the cruelest month for conservatives, disgusted as they were by Republicans’ floundering, pandering responses to the public’s infantile tantrums about gasoline prices. Republican responses included threats of windfall-profits taxes and other measures to punish “price gouging.” Conservatives, who are supposed to understand the power of markets and the limited power of government, should be saying
About those polls critical of the president’s “handling” of gas prices, who over the age of 7 really thinks presidents can “handle” world petroleum prices? And: A major reason for high oil prices is the rapid modernization of India and Chinaâ??which is desirable and promoted by U.S. policy. And: For some reason, it pleased the Intelligent Designer of the universe to put much of the Earth’s oil in turbulent placesâ??the Middle East, Venezuela, Nigeria, Russia. And: The Congress that is in histrionic anguish over high gas prices has mandated adding ethanol to gasolineâ??ethanol which is in short supply, partly because Congress has legislated a tariff of 54 cents per gallon on imported ethanol.
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Anyone checking the mail for that $100 rebate check from “Big Oil”proposed by…no, not the socialist leaning liberal Democrats, but THE GOP LEADERSHIP!! Have you ever heard of anything so sophomoric, so plainly grandstanding, so against core principles of not just the party but basic economics?
And now, for the cherry on top of the hypocrisy pie, YOU MUST CHECK OUT THIS PICTURE AND CAPTION. (HT: Andrew Sullivan)