This guy is serious
In the spirit of Nathan Moore’s assertion that “42% of the American population have completely divested their stake in reality,” Tom Bohs over at The Jackson Sun warns us “Don’t be fooled by low gas prices.”
The editorial begins “I’ve done it. I’ve figured out how to bring gas prices down: Hold a national election where the political party in control might get its butt kicked.”
I honestly thought the man was laying the groundwork for a satirical piece until I read further. He is absolutely serious.
The Arab countries are pumping the same amount of oil. The U.S. doesn’t have any new refineries and the old ones are running at the same levels of production. Winter is still coming with its heating needs. The lid is still fixing to blow off the Middle East at any moment. Major U.S. oil supplier, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, still dislikes America, and especially President George Bush, and even more than he did before. We, and everyone else around the world, are using as much oil as ever. There was a huge oil discovery in the Gulf of Mexico, but that black gold won’t come online for at least a decade.
So, why are gas prices here at home dropping faster than the sales of Ford SUVs?
I’ll tell you why. Dick “Halliburton” Cheney.
Remember him? He’s our vice president who mostly can be found at undisclosed locations. Remember his secret meetings with oil company brass to set national energy policy for the future? That was when gas was $1.25 a gallon. Some energy policy, unless, of course, you happen to be a petroleum industry bigwig.
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This is a crooked administration the likes of which we haven’t seen since Richard Nixon was president. It is predatory in its abuse of the American public’s freedom. It is vicious in its treatment of its opponents and enemies. And it is disingenuous in its war efforts in Iraq. It’s moral standing, and America’s, is in the toilet. The American people, our freedom and our way of life are suffering under this tainted and corrupt regime.
We are closer to tyranny than we can imagine. We are blinded and misled by fear-mongering. The political process has devolved into abuse, cheating, pettiness and lying to achieve ill-conceived, misdirected and selfish ends.
But there is hope. There are the likes of Sen. John McCain and former Secretary of State Colin Powell who are not afraid of the truth. There are a few members of Congress and a few candidates in the coming national elections who can make a difference, if they can get elected.
That brings me back to gas prices. I hope the American voter will not be bought off by a few gallons of cheap gas.
Folks, it is amazing that people actually believe this stuff. What an oxymoron the left has concocted. (And don’t believe Bohs’ claim that “I am neither Republican nor Democrat.” This guy is as liberal as they come.)
Indeed, when gas prices were rising, Democrats were all over the Bush administration, blaming the President and Richard Cheney for colluding with Big Oil. Now that gas prices are coming down, there is outrage once again on the left, with the Bush-haters blaming the President and Richard Cheney for colluding with Big Oil!
These people simply cannot allow themselves to be happy about anything as long as George W. Bush is in office.
