Bush Seemingly Resigned to High Gas Prices

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

SAN JOSE, Calif. - As oil prices hit a record, drivers worried about $3-a-gallon gas and politicians feared the impact on elections, President Bush on Friday acknowledged the pain but seemed resigned to being able to do little about it.

"I know the folks here are suffering at the gas pump," the president said while promoting his competitiveness initiative at the Silicon Valley headquarters of Internet networking company Cisco Systems Inc. "Rising gasoline prices is like taking a — is like a tax, particularly on the working people and the small-business people."

But to address the immediate problem, Bush offered only a pledge that "if we find any price gouging it will be dealt with firmly."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060422/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush


WPE

[marmar]

1. He's not about to stop his oil buddies from looting America...

:grr:

[AuntiBush]

4. You'd Think

They'd have enough by now! :grr: They must want every last drop.

[AuntiBush]

2. East Coast is Getting Banged, too

Ba#tards! Paid almost $17 bucks for 5.75 gallons today. Feel bad for everyone w/big SUVs and trucks. Small business types are POed!

[sutz12]

3. You have to WANT to do something before you can. nt

[AuntiBush]

6. I'm heading for NY Next Weekend to March

Had enough. Even elderly relative is going if we both have to crawl!

http://www.april29.org/article.php?id=3211

[Ecumenist]

5. RESIGNED???

Tickled... he's making money hand over fist. He's about as worried about the gouging of the American people as the Klan is aboutthe poverty of poor inner city blacks

[AuntiBush]

10. Really. Just like Katrina.

Swear I recall hearing a clip months back he and/or poppa invested heavily last year in ethanol/corn.

CNN tonight mentioned the reason one of their economic reporters found closed gas stations out-of-gas from NJ, thru PA, MD to DC was because Bush announced the oil is being refined in a new way, using what else, but ethanol which was promoted by Carter eons ago, heavily. Big Oil and Poppa Bush ignored it then. Oil-mongrels. War-Oil. And he says we're addicted. A ton of nerve!

[Ecumenist]

15. He's a cheeky bastard, I'll give him that... eom

[Ecumenist]

7. This is going to back fire so hard against this

group, there'll be skid marks...


But they're greedy and stupid to see it coming.

[AuntiBush]

12. Can't see their Evil Forests for their Greedy Trees!

[Ecumenist]

17. That's right Auntibush

It's going to be a funny thing to behold when so many vote against them, they'll be totally unable to steal the votes. Watch the numbers of them stand around drooling and scratching their rear ends.

[SammyWinstonJack]

8. Bush is all for taxes on the working people and the small business

people. It's the richy rich like him that hate increased taxes. Why doesn't he just STFU! We all know he doesn't give a rat's ass about us. He can't even pretend that he does, with any sincerity. Oh and BTW, he is admitting that gas prices are a tax on working people and small business? He and his slimy party are sooo screwed! :rofl: It's not that he isn't able to do anything about it, it's that he won't do anything about it! He is the Oil pResident.

[riderinthestorm]

9. He'll just "jawbone" those Saudis to reduce their prices

That'll fix 'em!

In 2000, With gasoline prices hitting the stratosphere, GW Bush, the presidential candidate, chastised Bill Clinton for not being tough enough on the oil producers.

"I think the President ought to get on the phone with the OPEC cartel and say: 'We expect you to open your spigots.' The President of the United States must jawbone OPEC members to lower the price," declared Gov. George W. Bush. He vowed to do just that with the "Saudis" and others....

Oil prices were at $28/barrel when he made that statement.

Today oil prices topped $75/barrel.

[SammyWinstonJack]

13. He'll "jawbone" them, right after his kisses them on the lips.

Hey FReeps, had enough yet?

[bluethruandthru]

11. I heard Ed Schultz today talking about how

the repukes were calling for Clinton's head when gas prices spiked during his term. Trent Lott was saying the federal gas tax needed to be temporarily cut and why wasn't Clinton doing something? etc., etc., ..

[AuntiBush]

14. That's All They Ever Have to Base All Issues on - Blame it on

Clinton or any "liberal" Democrat.

They're Regressive, not Progressive. Repeat that to all. Might as well add Depressive, while you're at it as they sure are.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

16. Ooooh! A buck sixty!

:scared:

[bluethruandthru]

18. Yep, and those compasionate conservatives

were all worried about how that must be hurting Joe Average Citizen. How sweet of them!

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

Twice as nice at double the price!

"Everything's great!"

[SammyWinstonJack]

19. They also called for Clinton to release oil from the SPR, which I think he

did.

[bluethruandthru]

20. Oh for the good ole days!

Gas here today was $3.21 for regular unleaded!

[SammyWinstonJack]

21. $2.71 here last I checked which was yesterday morning.

[bluethruandthru]

24. I'm jealous! n/t

[SammyWinstonJack]

26. I am sure we will catch up, not to worry.

:-(

[bluethruandthru]

27. Ain't that the truth!

The gas station actually ran out of the little plastic "3's". Prices were $3.21, $3.31, and $3.41. They had to make little paper "3's".

[SammyWinstonJack]

28. Hey, a new job ** has created, changing the gas prices hourly!

:rofl:

[bluethruandthru]

29. Wow...he finally "created" a job! n/t

[SammyWinstonJack]

31. LOL! Gas prices changers, jobs that 'Mericans

WILL DO :rofl:

[greenbriar]

22. bbbuutt in 2000 he said this:

As a presidential candidate in 2000, then-Gov. George W. Bush promised that, if elected, he would use the full weight of the White House to pressure oil-producing countries to increase production if there was a gas-price crisis. He charged, "The president of the United States must jawbone OPEC members to lower the price" and promised that as president he would "convince them to open up the spigot to increase the supply." Yet, when Saudi Arabia led the fight within OPEC last month to cut production and raise prices, the president "refused to lean on the oil cartel" and refused to even "personally lobby OPEC leaders to change their minds." Now, with esteemed journalist Bob Woodward reporting that the Bush administration and top Saudi officials agreed to manipulate oil prices in conjunction with the 2004 election, President Bush's passivity towards Saudi Arabia is raising disturbing questions. Why won't the administration exert serious pressure on the regime both on oil and terrorism policy? Why does the president continue to refer to Saudi Arabia as "our friend" when the country has potential ties to the 9/11 terrorists? Why, as author Daniel Benjamin reported, did the administration weaken efforts to scrutinize potential Saudi money-laundering schemes before 9/11? A look at the president's "deep personal ties with Saudi officials" – and his financial connections to the Saudi royal family and powerful Saudi businessmen – may provide clues.

BUSH'S PERSONAL FINANCIAL TIES TO SAUDIS RUN DEEP: According to various sources, Bush has been awash in Saudi money for years. Journalist/author Craig Unger in his new book "House of Bush, House of Saud" traced millions "in investments and contracts that went from the Saudis over the past 20 years to companies in which the Bushes and their allies have had prominent positions - Harken Energy, Halliburton, and the Carlyle Group among them." According to the Boston Herald, that includes a $1 million gift from Prince Bandar to the Bush Presidential Library in Tex

[Gabi Hayes]

23. can you edit out everything but the first and third words of the header?

thank you

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

25. I was thinking 2,3,4,5 and 7.

But yours works.

[Gabi Hayes]

30. damn...wish I could get a bigger copy of your eyepic

you told me about it before, and the only pix I could find were tiny, and won't enlarge decently

[Virginian]

32. Passive "will deal with price gouging."

Bush offered only a pledge that "if we find any price gouging it will be dealt with firmly."

Why does this remind me of the empty promise he made to fire anyone leaking the name of CIA operatives? Why does he make so many passive statements? Is HE not going to do any of the action on anything?

[kestrel91316]

33. And I betcha he said this part with that goddamned smirk on his face:

"Rising gasoline prices is like taking a — is like a tax, particularly on the working people and the small-business people."

[teryang]

34. The fruits of the secret Bush Cheney energy policy

Remember the one they wouldn't disclose to Congress.

[Imagevision]

35. Bush & Cheney, first & foremost are oilmen, what do you expect??!!

As president his response is "I know the folks here are suffering at the gas pump," -- "if we find any price gouging it will be dealt with firmly." - does this sound like a presidential reply/response?
this asshole thinks this isn't hurting the GOP?!! EXCELLANT!

He could have two Roves in play to save the GOP's ass come November, it won't matter!

[TexasLawyer]

36. Yes-- Just like a tax...

Except instead of flowing to the government to fund public services and undo our massive budget deficit, the added price increment flows to Exxon and this dude...

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2006/04/14/leeraymond_narrowweb__300x336,0.jpg

Fill 'er up!

[Leopolds Ghost]

37. You left out the word "due" in the subject line ;-)

Bush Seemingly Resigned DUE to High Gas Prices,

Historians say

Hey, they got Al Capone for tax evasion!