Hey George: How's That Plan to Lower Gas Prices by Sucking Up to Oil Producers Working?

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/waroniraq/82690/

Hey, remember 2000? We had an election that year!

Let's recall then-candidate George W. Bush's pitch about how he'd lower gas prices, which at the time were averaging $1.66 per gallon:


Gov. George W. Bush of Texas said today that if he was president, he would bring down gasoline prices through sheer force of personality, by creating enough political good will with oil-producing nations that they would increase their supply of crude.


"I would work with our friends in OPEC to convince them to open up the spigot, to increase the supply," Mr. Bush, the presumptive Republican candidate for president, told reporters here today. "Use the capital that my administration will earn, with the Kuwaitis or the Saudis, and convince them to open up the spigot.''

He'd just build up a boatload of goodwill within the Arab world and then tell those rag-heads to open up the spigot! Unlike that loser Clinton ...


Implicit in his comments was a criticism of the Clinton administration as failing to take advantage of the good will that the United States built with Kuwait and Saudi Arabia during the Persian Gulf war in 1991. Also implicit was that as the son of the president who built the coalition that drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait, Mr. Bush would be able to establish ties on a personal level that would persuade oil-producing nations that they owed the United States something in return.


''Ours is a nation that helped Kuwait and the Saudis, and you'd think we'd have the capital necessary to convince them to increase the crude supplies,'' he said.


Asked why the Clinton administration had not been able to use the power of personal persuasion, Mr. Bush said: ''The fundamental question is, 'Will I be a successful president when it comes to foreign policy?'''

[elizfeelinggreat]

1. how well I remember that

all too well. I also know that when you bring it up now people give you a blank look.

History disappears with this administration, doesn't it?

[NNN0LHI]

2. And if you try and bring up forgotten stuff here people will yell at you for doing so too

Like this is LBN or something.

Really weird.

Don

[spanone]

3. w o r s e f u c k i n g p r e s i d e n t e v e r

i remember watching this asshole giving clinton shit about the rising oil prices, saying he would tell them to open the spigots.....yea, junior, you opened the money spigots

[But....]

5. Hear hear...

:applause:

[madokie]

4. beings as how in bushworld up is really down

I see this as exactly what he was alluding to then. A failure of bush to us is a win to him

[Fovea]

6. Are you kidding?

Jabba the Exxon CEO has grown an additional chin every year.

If you are a merc or an oil exec, you are in fat city, literally.

[izquierdista]

7. Print this out

Roll it up.

Use it to beat some Republican who keeps pissing on about liberals.

Oh, I forgot, beating a dog with a rolled up newspaper doesn't solve the behavioral problem; why would it work for a less intelligent animal?