Posted by
JayPeriod on Friday, May 02, 2008 2:16:24 PM
I have been so glad this week to hear the President come out so strongly criticizing the Democratic leadership for their policies on energy. He has twice reminded Americans that were it not for the likes of Pelosi and Reid, and their love affair with eco-terrorist groups like Sierra Club and PETA, we could be drilling on American soil and building more refineries. He is just now placing the blame squarely where it belongs and reminding Americans just who is to blame.
Despite promises during the 2006 election that the Left had the answers for high oil prices, prices have continued to rise. Maybe that was their answer; higher prices! They continue to show that they have no idea how to lead this country and how to get lower prices at the pump.
Of course, we have Hillary and Obama out there telling us the answer is to tax the profits of the big oil companies. In this they show their stupidity and lack of knowledge of how a market economy works. Sure, they can tax the oil companies $10-15 Billion. Sure, the companies will send it to the government. Who do you think will pay it, though? We will. The Left has never figured out that every tax they put on business gets shuffled down to us, the consumer. Stupid.
I hope the President continues to apply pressure on Congress, reminding the people of ANWR and the old refineries. If he can keep that out there, reminding the Democratic leadership that their inaction in proof that they don't care, maybe we can derail the Left once and for all and rid our country of these socialists. Let's send them to Cuba where they long to be.