The Hill Street Blahg

According to Dictionary dot com, a Demagogue is a political leader who gains power and popularity by arousing the emotions, passions, and prejudices of the people.

Yesterday, our Democrats friends in Congress; in a desperate attempt to distract public attention away from the fact that they have no energy policy whatsoever, dug deep into their bag of diversion tricks to dredge up an old favorite attention getter - Price Gouging.  The Democrats, in their failed attempt to resurrect the meaningless and unenforceable mothballed “Federal Price Gouging Prevention Act,” did however, provide themselves an opportunity to vote against something that sounds horribly evil, without actually accomplishing anything at all.  Except that is, for wasting valuable time on the taxpayer’s dime and giving themselves a imaginary aura of courage in their fairy tale war on the evil “Big Oil” barons. Here’s a thought. Just who are these imaginary oil barons anyway? Has anyone actually ever seen one of these so-called barons? Do they hang out with the evil and conveniently invented “futures traders” we hear so much about…I wonder?

Never mind what our friends the Democrats crowed about when they took control of Congress two years ago. They had no energy policy then and they most assuredly have no energy policy now. The only similitude of policy they seemingly have is pointing the finger of blame towards a fictitious “enemy of the state” for their own never ending energy policy failures.  In the absence of a coherent energy policy, they can come up with nothing better than to come out ineffectively against an “evil’ the just doesn’t exist.

I’m also hearing more and more about the resurrection of another lefty antidote to high gas prices. That being Jimmy Carter’s old 55 MPH national speed limits sham. It was nothing more than a typical Carteresque political diversion which did nothing at all and will do more of the same should it be brought back to life a quarter of a century later. The only thing the ridiculous law generated was additional revenue for the states due to above normal speeding violations and it made Jimmy Carter and his fellow travelers feel good about themselves. Einstein once said, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”. Think about those words of wisdom for a moment… does this quote apply to what we’re now seeing and hearing from our Democrat friends in Congress?

Why can’t these anit-oil, anti-capitalism Democrats just step up to the plate and display some leadership qualities for once in their self-serving lives?  America needs to drill and refine oil within our own geographical boundaries and we desperately need to build more Nuke Plants and Oil Refineries. We are the only country in the world who doesn’t harvest our own natural resources to the fullest extent and we have the wacko environmentalist and their Democrats pals in Congress to thank for it. Really dumb, don’t you think?