From gop.gov: Clinton Administration 'Napping' allowing high gas prices

[Seeker30]

This was the GOP's response when gas prices were around $1.65 a gallon.
Why are these assclowns so quiet now???

http://www.gop.gov/item-news.asp?docId=36898

The Clinton Administration has failed in its duty to develop a policy to deal with our national energy supply and is therefore directly accountable for the higher prices Americans are now paying at the gas pumps," Congressman Terry Everett, R-Enterprise, said Friday.

"In response, I have cosponsored legislation in the House calling for the termination of all American aid and assistance to those oil producing nations involved in oil price fixing," Everett said. "Furthermore, I have also cosponsored House legislation calling upon the President to file a formal complaint at the World Trade Organization against those oil-producing nations for violating international trade agreements.

[Cleita]

1. These are the things you write your Republican reps about.

Thanks for the info. because I will be writing mine and rubbing it in.

[LincolnMcGrath]

2. nominated

[EstimatedProphet]

3. Remember too, Clinton released gas from the strategic reserves

and he took a lot of heat for it. Now the same people that bitched about Clinton doing that are applauding Bush doing the same thing.
The Republican motto: Rules are for the little people.

[Seeker30]

4. Yes, and I also remember

less than a year ago the repukes were totally against it.

[linazelle]

5. Yes, gas prices have increased more than 100% in 5 years

Not only is nobody mentioning the devastating impact, they are glossing over all inflationary costs.

[Usrename]

6. Wasn't * going to ask his Arab friends to "open the spigot"? n/t

[DiverDave]

7. More examples of doublespeak

Rep. Terry Everett (R AL): "The Clinton Administration has failed in its duty to develop a policy to deal with our national energy supply and is therefore directly accountable for the higher prices Americans
are now paying at the gas pumps."

Dennis Hastert (R IL): "House Speaker Dennis Hastert accused the Clinton administration Friday of misleading members of Congress about the causes of skyrocketing gas prices in the Midwest."

Rep. Wally Herger (R CA): "Congressman Wally Herger recently denounced the Clinton-Gore Administration's complacency during the current gas price crisis.
'Northern Californians are being held hostage at the gas pump,' Herger said. 'The Clinton-Gore Administration has demonstrated a complete and total lack of leadership in preventing this problem. It is a clear failure of domestic and foreign policy.'"

Larry Kudlow (former Reagan economic advisor & syndicated columnist): "The Clinton-Gore administration’s hapless and incoherent management of foreign policy is nowhere as evident as in their bungling on OPEC’s oil-price hike. ... While crude oil prices could drop to $25 per barrel, they will stay well above the average $20 real price of oil registered over the past ten years. And way above the $10 worldwide average marginal cost of producing new oil. Meanwhile gas prices at the pump are likely to be upwards of $2 per gallon well into the summer."

Glenn Spencer (president of Voice of Citizens Together, a conservative anti Hispanic organization): "In recent weeks, gas prices have surged to their highest level in a decade. Prices for home heating oil and natural gas are expected to rise by about 30 percent this winter. ... With the Clinton-Gore administration's policies largely to blame for the pain being felt by consumers, Vice President Gore's camp has pulled out all the stops to shift blame away
from his own administration."

Various other Republicans: "Representatives Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Menomonee Falls), Tom Petri (R-Fond du Lac), Paul Ryan (R-Janesville), and Mark Green (R-Green Bay) today blasted Energy Secretary Bill Richardson and the Clinton-Gore Administration for their failure to implement a comprehensive energy policy to deal with staggering gas prices Wisconsin consumers continue to face at the pumps."

[Seeker30]

13. And this

In 2000, President Bill Clinton found himself on the defensive when midsummer oil prices jumped up to about $1.68 per gallon. At the time, as candidate George W. Bush campaigned for the White House, he said his predecessor should simply put more pressure on the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to release more oil.

[coda]

8. June 2000, Bush plan for reducing gas prices from the $1.65 Nat avg

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.

-- Texas Governor George W Bush, June, 2000


Implicit in his comments 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.

-- NY Times Jun 28, 2000

[Mairead]

9. Why do you get so exercised about this crap?

It's all a game to them. OF COURSE they're going to say the Dems were incompetent, just as the Dems say it when the GOP are in the barrel. But it's all empty words and finger-pointing. We're not going to get anywhere at all til we stop snapping at that bait.

Until we ignore party affiliation and start demanding that they quit posturing and create real solutions, we're going to remain over-taxed and under-served. How stupid is that, anyway?

[Perky]

11. Its because...

Many DUers would rather start a protest rally about * then lead.

I can't begin to think of the number of times, I and others have posted constructive ways to take back the House and where the post never even gets a single response.

I think at times some of my liberal friends revel in being perecuted and playing the role of the underdog rather than actually contolling the levers of power.


Perhaps that is the difference between Liberals and Democrats.

Yeah this is flame bait...but I am feeling feisty,

[mom cat]

10. So let's declare war on OPEC...That way we don't have to look at the price

gouging of his big supporters.
And how well have we obeyed our trade agreements? Ask Canada for starters.
When in doubt: blame Clinton!

[phylny]

12. Oh, THANK YOU!

I was hoping to find this to send to a few, um, friends ;)

[Cocoa]

14. 9/11 changed everything

that's their all-purpose answer to this kind of reminder you've just posted.

[MADem]

15. If Clinton was "napping" then these fuckers are comatose!!!

It's a long haul from a buck sixty five to three bucks a gallon!

[no_hypocrisy]

16. I was paying $1.08 for super while Clinton was "napping".

What a fallacious proposition. If true, why didn't * try to tinker with and "improve" the situation as soon as he forced himself into the White House. I mean, he certainly didn't waste any time about Iraq from Day One. How did this gem fly under the radar?