John Stewart, the smarmy host of Comedy Cenrtral's Daily Show, last
night pontificated on oil (as most of us do when it get's
scarce/expensive). At nearly the same time, Ann Coulter, whom
Liberals hate just slightly less than President Bush, was doing the
same thing a bit differently. I offer both views side by
side. Make up your own mind.
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John Stewart - Why Bush Makes Me Mad
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Ann Coulter - Why John is a nincompoop
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“I’m mad at an administration
that feels they have the vision to spread democracy, I will invade a
country and it will flower like the Genesis Machine, and yet when it
comes to oil, their most innovative scheme is ‘uh, what if we look in
Alaska?’ It lacks imagination to some extent.” - "I'm Mad At Team Bush For Its Stupid Energy Policy"
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I would be more interested in
what the Democrats had to say about high gas prices if these were not
the same people who refused to let us drill for oil in Alaska, imposed
massive restrictions on building new refineries, and who shut down the
development of nuclear power in this country decades ago.
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The last time the Democrats controlled the House, the Senate and the
presidency was in 1993. Immediately after trying to put gays in the
military and socialize all health care, Clinton's next order of
business was to propose an energy tax on all fuels, including a 26-cent
tax on gas. I think the bill was called "putting people first in line
at the bus station."
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Democrats in Congress promptly introduced an "energy bill" that would
put an additional 25-cent-a-gallon tax on gasoline to stop "global
warming," an atmospheric phenomenon supposedly aggravated by frivolous
human activities such as commerce, travel and food production. This is
the Democratic Party. That's their program.
Gary Hart, another whimsical demonstration of what Democrats think a
president should be like, said at the time, "I certainly favor
consumption taxes, particularly on energy." Then there's John Kerry,
who favored a 50-cent increase in the gas tax in 1994. If he were a rap
artist, Kerry's stage name would be "Fifty Cent a Gallon."
Last year, a couple of green "climatologists" at the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign were back at it in the journal Science,
wheeling out their proposal for a 25-cent-a-gallon tax on gasoline as
an "insurance policy" against global warming.
Just two months ago, we were being confidently told — on the basis of a
New York Times/CBS News poll, so it must be true — that "Americans
might OK a gasoline tax hike if it reduced global warming or lessened
U.S. dependence on foreign oil."
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The Democrats' only objection to current gas prices is that the federal
government's cut is a mere 18.4 cents a gallon. States like New York
get another 44 cents per gallon in taxes. The Democratic brain
processes the fact that "big oil companies" get nearly 9 cents a gallon
and thinks: WE SHOULD HAVE ALL THAT MONEY!
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"It's Hard Out Here for a Pump" |
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