Remember bush bashing the Clenis for not "jawboning opec" at 1.64 a gallon

yet almost $4.00 is okay by him???


http://www.pensitoreview.com/2008/03/08/in-2000-gop-trashed-dems-over-gas-prices/

Gas prices have soared this week to a national average of $1.64 a gallon, and to well over $2 a gallon in the Chicago and Milwaukee area, setting off a frenzy of finger-pointing involving the Clinton administration, Congress, oil companies and refineries, and the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.

In 2000, the Republicans used the spike to $1.64 as a campaign issue to bash the Clinton administration and Democratic candidates in the election that year, especially Al Gore:

In June 2000, Republican politicians urged President Bill Clinton to fire his energy secretary, Bill Richardson. Richardson, Michigan Sen. Rod Grams explained, was presiding over an “energy disgrace.” Clinton, many conservative commentators urged, should be raked over hot coals for vetoing congressional measures that would have opened up much of the Alaskan wilderness to oil drilling.

Meanwhile anti-tax think tanks such as the rightwing Heritage Foundation, rushed into print with reports advocating massive rollbacks of federal and state gasoline taxes and clean air standards for gasoline. Finally, anti-environmentalists jumped into the fray, lambasting Vice President Al Gore for implicitly condoning an OPEC supply squeeze that would drive up oil prices and thus, the conspiracy theory went, force Americans to drive less — which Gore, with his wacky ideas about global warming, was apparently salivating at the mouth about.

And:

saying President Gore might raise gas prices by a whopping quarter!

Great minds and all that :-)
You beat me to it!

He jawbones them real nice too! :smoke:

I've often wondered why that isn't brought up more often, and then I remember that we suffer with the M$M Corporate Whores on the teevee.

then the rest will pick it up because they want his ratings!!!

touch, or at least, not until he opens up the can of worms. Abrams is pretty good about touching on the tougher issues once in a while, and the morning show, what is it, "The View" or something?? If taboo issues are being brought up THERE, that's a great thing!

Love your sig line *lol*

Ask the execs with the multi-million dollar compensations. Their response today at the hearings would have been laughable if so many weren't crying.