FROM WSJ
We can't help but give more attention to a recent press release from some
of
the Senate's leading liberals. Charles Schumer, Byron Dorgan, Bernie
Sanders, Bob Casey and Mary Landrieu are demanding that President Bush
tell
OPEC nations to increase their oil supplies or risk losing arms deals with
the United States. The Senators say U.S. consumers need the price relief
that only increased oil production can bring.
Yes, that Senator Schumer and that Senator Dorgan, both of whom voted
against increasing U.S. oil production because they couldn't abide
drilling
across 1% of Alaska's wilderness. Yes, that Senator Casey, who has called
for mandatory reductions in emissions of carbon dioxide. At least Senator
Landrieu of Louisiana has fought to allow more offshore drilling in the
Gulf
of Mexico.
All of these Senate Democrats are willing to accept greater carbon
emissions, as long as we can also outsource jobs in the petroleum industry
to Middle Eastern dictator****ps. The Senators do aver that "some of us
have
concerns in general about arming this region to the teeth," but apparently
cheap fossil fuel buys a lot of peace of mind.
A special word of concern about Mr. Sanders: He is the only avowed
socialist
in Congress, but the Vermonter appears to be losing his religion over
$122-a-barrel oil. By signing this letter, not only is he officially
recognizing the law of supply and demand; he's also proposing a more
crassly
commercial trade of guns for oil than anything we've ever heard from the
most candid realpolitician.
To top it off, the Senator whose Web site proudly proclaims that the first
bill he introduced was to combat global warming now wants more fossil
fuels
ready for burning. We hope his friends are closely watching Mr. Sanders,
in
case he blows a gasket over all of this cognitive ideological dissonance.
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"Cognitive ideological dissonance." That's polysyllabic verbiage for "Libs
got no ethics."
Dionysus
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