[Doc91678]

Tell me the logic in having the Democrat tree huggers stop the oil companies from drilling just in ANWAR. Which could have relieved the high prices of oil today.
And now propose increasing taxes on the oil companies who will simply pass the taxes on to the consumer.
Just explain that tax side economics to me. I’d like to know.
Thank God I can heat my house with wood.

[Kenny Bunk]

Do not seek logic in this situation.

When W had the numbers, the problem was back-burnered... better yet, ignored. Now it's still back there, but it's the Democrats (and me) who are turning up the heat on Pore ole George.

Tell ya sumpin' else ... the oilcos are doing OK on the set of rules they are given to play by. So they are big fat juicy targets. Zo sorry Doc, Georgie screwed the pooch on this big-time.

Of course the Democrats will make the "tax the oil companies" gesture. But that's going nowhere. It's just a little Georgie roast to get them safely through the election ... and then it's business as usual.

[JasonC]

It is simple really. They can sound stridently populist to their green and class warfare base, and raise lots and lots to taxes to spend themselves anyway they please. What do they care who pays? The answer to every "who pays" question in the world is "productive working Americans". Battening on to that class of saps to live high without working, is a liberal's entire existence.