Friday, February 16, 2007
Taking leftist fools to school (for the umpteenth time)
I remember it as if it were happening just, er, five months ago ...
During the two months leading up to the 2006 congressional elections, left-wingers everywhere availed themselves of each and every opportunity to tell us that President Bush and his cronies in the oil industry were lowering gasoline prices in order to influence the outcome of the elections. Leftists were also quite convinced, and were ever eager to opine, that gas prices would start to rise as soon as the elections were over.
As anyone who's visited a filling station in recent weeks can attest, the price of gasoline is now cheaper than it was on Election Day 2006. In fact, until the recent cold snap caused a slight spike in the price of oil, sub-$2-a-gallon gas was a regular feature in many locales. Because gasoline inventories have continued to climb in spite of the cold weather, we can expect the price of gas to continue to fall when warm weather returns this spring.
Now that the Bush-controls-gas-prices conspiracy theory has been thoroughly discredited, you'd think leftists would be crawling all over themselves to issue mea culpas. If you're waiting for such to happen, however, you're going to be waiting for a long, long time. You see, waiting for a leftist to say "I was wrong" is a bit like waiting to win the lottery: You know it might happen, but the odds of it actually happening are like a million-to-one.
During the two months leading up to the 2006 congressional elections, left-wingers everywhere availed themselves of each and every opportunity to tell us that President Bush and his cronies in the oil industry were lowering gasoline prices in order to influence the outcome of the elections. Leftists were also quite convinced, and were ever eager to opine, that gas prices would start to rise as soon as the elections were over.
As anyone who's visited a filling station in recent weeks can attest, the price of gasoline is now cheaper than it was on Election Day 2006. In fact, until the recent cold snap caused a slight spike in the price of oil, sub-$2-a-gallon gas was a regular feature in many locales. Because gasoline inventories have continued to climb in spite of the cold weather, we can expect the price of gas to continue to fall when warm weather returns this spring.
Now that the Bush-controls-gas-prices conspiracy theory has been thoroughly discredited, you'd think leftists would be crawling all over themselves to issue mea culpas. If you're waiting for such to happen, however, you're going to be waiting for a long, long time. You see, waiting for a leftist to say "I was wrong" is a bit like waiting to win the lottery: You know it might happen, but the odds of it actually happening are like a million-to-one.
# posted by Joltin' Django @ Friday, February 16, 2007 
