More Proof that All Politicians Suck
August 8, 2005
Remember that George Bush said this when you read that crude oil hit $63 a barrel today:
Bush said today that he would bring down gasoline prices 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. Use the capital that my administration will earn, with the Kuwaitis or the Saudis, and convince them to open up the spigot.” Implicit in his comments was a criticism of the Clinton administration as failing to take advantage of the good will that the US 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 US something in return.
Source: Katherine Q. Seelye, NY Times Jun 28, 2000
You know, one of the reasons that the wingnut blogs like Instapundit are so completely useless is they seem to think Bush is an action hero, infallible in the face of everything. By checking their critical thinking at the side of the keyboard, they fail to recognize that Bush is, at the end of the day, just another hack, looking out only for himself and the interests of a few friends. A political blog with that complete lack of critical thinking is useless, no matter which party it is shilling for.
Posted by Bill Trippe at August 8, 2005 12:16 PM
