Yet Another....Idiotic Liberal Proposal

With Obama spewing so much moronic rhetoric lately, I had forgotten there are other liberals in the legislature, too. All the attention is on gas prices these days, and you've got Nancy Pelosi out there claiming that President Bush's "failed energy policy" is the reason for high gas prices, and that conservatives' call for more drilling out in the ocean and in Alaska is a "hoax, hoax, hoax!" She claims that drilling where we believe there are millions of barrels of oil (increasing the global supply) would do nothing to lower gas prices. Her alternative? Pull some barrels out of our strategic reserve (increasing supply). Wait, I thought increasing supply wouldn't solve the problem, Nancy? What's wrong with this picture? How does a woman this stupid actually get to be Speaker of the House, third in line for the Presidency of the U.S.?

Now I see we have this one state legislator in Michigan, an old guy named Aldo Vagnozzi (a D, of course), saying, "hey, let's lower the speed limit back down to 55 again. That'll save gas and lower prices." The scarier thing is he's actually got John Warner, conservative Repub in the Senate, listening. We want to bring back the 70's? Really? Well I guess we're already contemplating doing that by electing Empty Suit president, right?

Look, if you want to save some gas and $ by driving 55, Be My Guest. Have a nice day. But imposing a law so that everyone has to do this? You've got to be kidding me. There's about 20 other things you could do that would be less invasive and more effective.

Back to Rep Vagnozzi: "These are the same people who say 'Government should do something about gas prices.' Uh, you either want them to help, or you don't." News flash: No one needs the government to make them drive 55, they can do that whenever they want to. What kind of stupid "solution" is that? He actually gets paid to come up with this stuff.

When people say government should do something about the price of gas, they mean it should do big things like ending the moratorium on offshore oil drilling; allowing drilling in ANWR; encouraging development of clean coal, nuclear energy, and oil shale extraction. In other words, get government out of the way! Reagan said it best: "Government is not the solution; government is the problem." It's as true today as it was 25 years ago.