Bush Claims High Gas Prices Demcratic Congress To Blame

[Joanne98]

The Bush presidency has been responsible for literally countless eye-rolling episodes on my part not to mention moments of disbelief, frustration and outright laughter. I’d like to report that the topic of today’s post is likely the final raison d’être to my ongoing incredulity of the inanity of our fearful leader. If I have learned one thing over the last seven years, however, it is that I only need wait until tomorrow’s headlines for the next gaffe or impropriety by the king who wears no clothes. AP News has reported that GW is blaming Democrats for the high gas prices and the overall dour condition of the economy. “This is a difficult time for many American families,” Bush said. “Rising gasoline prices and economic uncertainty can affect everything from what food parents put on the table to where they can go on vacation.”

Really? Bush is going to suggest that it is the Democrats fault American kids are going hungry and won’t be able to go to Disneyland this year after all? WOW! This Democratically controlled Congress must be the singular most powerful Congress to have ever been seated. As my friend Bob would like to point out, if current conditions exist as the result of our current elected officials why didn’t the previous officeholders put safeguards in place to avoid this situation. In only 16 months Democrats have completely diverted the course of this nation in direct contradiction to reason they were elected in the first place. Everybody saw where this country was headed under the control of Bush and a Republican Congress and that is why the American electorate voted for change in 06. And now after only months in office under the constant threat and imposition of vetoes and an obstructionist Republican minority everything is the fault of Democrats. Unbelievable.

Bush is adamant to squeeze in a final oil industry favor by opening federal lands to exploration for his oil company buddies. What Bush won’t tell you is that oil companies already have leases for 68 million acres of federal lands and waters that are not being developed. So for Republican alarmists to claim that the supply crisis of oil is blood on the hands of the “tree huggers” is a flat out ugly lie. Energy experts and economists agree that Bush proposals to allow drilling in environmentally sensitive areas will not bring immediate or meaningful relief at the pump; now or is there any guarantee that it will in the future. Bush says he wants to ease the regulatory process to expand oil refining capacity and lift restrictions on oil shale leasing in the Green River Basin of Colorado, Utah and Wyoming on federal lands. There seems to be no end to Bush indebtedness to the oil industry that is responsible for the Bush family fortune.

Perhaps the single quote most responsible for today’s little rant comes again from the C student from Yale, “If congressional leaders leave for the Fourth of July recess without taking action, they will need to explain why $4-a-gallon gasoline is not enough incentive for them to act.” I know how Democrats should make that explanation. They should hold a huge national press conference and say “We have a shitty president who used a Republican majority congress in his first six years of office to deregulate the oil industry to the point it is now in the mess that you see. And now he wants to deregulate environmental controls to the point where oil companies will have license rape our environment resulting in the devastation of our shorelines and National Parks.”

And then when the next Republican gets voted into the oval office he too can blame the Democrats for all the ills of our country.
http://redhogdiary.wordpress.com/2008/06/21/bush-claims-high-gas-prices-demcratic-congress-to-blame/

[freesqueeze]

1. So...did anyone expect

Bush to take responsibility?

[malaise]

2. No one believes him anymore

Let him bray...damn jackass.

[MasonJar]

9. I ditto that response!

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. Screw him. I am sick and tired of his refusal to accept responsibility for anything

Dear God, will this demented misfit ever go away?

[formercia]

4. Teapot Dome II

Junior is often referred to as another Warren Harding. I think he intends to be remembered by his oil patch buddies as the Pretzeldent that outdid Harding in giving away federal lands to Big Oil.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teapot_Dome_Scandal

Teapot Dome scandal
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Teapot Dome is a reference to an oil field on public land in the U.S. state of Wyoming, so named because of a massive boulder that looks like a teapot overlooking the field. It is also a phrase commonly applied to the scandal that troubled the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding.

The Teapot Dome oil reserve scandal took place during the administration of President Harding. In 1921, by executive order of the President, control of naval oil reserves at Teapot Dome, Wyo., and at Elk Hills, Calif., was transferred from the Navy Dept. to the Dept. of the Interior. The oil reserves had been set aside for the navy by President Taft. In 1922, Albert B. Fall, U.S. Secretary of the Interior, leased, without competitive bidding, the Teapot Dome fields to Harry F. Sinclair, an oil operator, and the field at Elk Hills, Calif., to Edward L. Doheny. These transactions became (1922–23) the subject of a Senate investigation conducted by Sen. Thomas J. Walsh.

It was found that in 1921, Doheny had lent Fall $100,000, interest-free, and that upon Fall's retirement as Secretary of the Interior (Mar., 1923) Sinclair also “loaned” him a large amount of money. The investigation led to criminal prosecutions.<1> Fall was indicted for conspiracy and for accepting bribes. Convicted of the latter charge, he was sentenced to a year in prison and fined $100,000. In another trial for bribery Doheny and Sinclair were acquitted, although Sinclair was subsequently sentenced to prison for contempt of the Senate and for employing detectives to shadow members of the jury in his case. The oil fields were restored to the U.S. government through a Supreme Court decision in 1927.

[no_hypocrisy]

5. Just like Katrina.

Bush and his federal agencies gave assurances to the governor of Louisiana, did nothing, and then blamed the fiasco on the democratic governor and the democratic mayor of New Orleans. Bush had enough balls to invite the governor of Louisiana onto Air Force One on Day Five of the disaster, and instead of asking what he could do to help, he only demanded that she sign a waiver, federalizing the LA National Guard and relinquishing the state's sovereignty to the federal government. In other words, to defer to Bush and admit that the disaster was beyond the means of Louisiana, and that THEY were the miserable failures in this matter, not Bush.

The governor refused. The damage was done anyway.

[sarcasmo]

6. It's the Democratic fault will be taking place of it's Clinton's fault.

The ultimate, pass the buck.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

7. He'll never hold a press conference to announce he's a worthless piece of shit

So his choices are silence or over-the-top flinging of feces.

[KharmaTrain]

8. More Bait & Switch...The Corporate Media Buys It Every Time

I recently saw a poll that showed that a majority favor more drilling for oil...a knee-jerk reaction to the over-simplification and poor reporting done by corporate media. People think the problem is just getting more oil and the prices will go down...or that alternatives are either too expensive or will take too long (in spite of all the excess costs and time it would take to get new oil sources on line).

The corporate media also buys and sells the major oil companies line. Lately I've noticed a lot of API...American Petroleum Institute spots on both Chicken Noodle News and M$NBC. Ya don't think those bucks don't affect what's covered and how it's presented? It's why you rarely hear about the Enron loophole or how speculation continues to drive this game...just like it did with the dot com boom and the housing boom. The corporate media profits from it, thus looks the other way.

The repugnicans live in a parellel universe where they're either the victims or misunderstood. They never do anything wrong, thus no need to be held accountable or responsible. When the facts look bad, you revise history or distort facts to bend to the red meat the coven thrives on. The corporate media is more than happy to pass along the distortions and lies...then cash more API money.

[Merlot]

10. I do think that higher gas prices are because dems are in control

The repubs wanted to make dems look bad and also make a busload of money. How better to do it than pull strings to make gas prices go up.

It's another repub strategy to hold office. Costliest election campaign in history, and we're paying for it throught he pump.