Thursday, April 27, 2006
It's Hard Out Here for a Pump.
Another winning and topical article by Ann Coulter that I will excerpt shortly. First I need to explore this unfolding synergy between Ann and Academy award winners Three 6 Mafia. Their song that won the Oscar was most certainly the inspiration for the title of this column, but it goes deeper than that. Three 6 Mafia is an obvious reference to the numerical sequence 6-6-6 and Ann's new book, Godless will be released on June 6th or 6-6-6. And now...
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.
But it's too much having to watch Democrats wail about the awful calamity to poor working families of having to pay high gas prices.
Imposing punitive taxation on gasoline to force people to ride bicycles has been one of the left's main policy goals for years.
For decades Democrats have been trying to raise the price of gasoline so that the working class will stop their infernal car-driving and start riding on buses where they belong, while liberals ride in Gulfstream jets.
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." This is the Democratic Party. That's their program
