How is it that as prices at the pump are tumbling like few times in the history of the world, we spend our time wringing our hands about this election poll and that? We need to be tolling the bell in the public square to announce our rejection of the Brokeback cuddling between the vice-president and his energy industry boyfriends.
These guys are like the nation's scout masters, they line us up at the pump and we all get drilled as they syphon our pockets for their profits. Now we are supposed to accept this election-season-reach-around and grant these buckaroo-pirates more time in the seats of power so that they can send more American children off to die in a foreign desert in their monkey-cluster of a war that guarantees higher oil prices and gilded retirements for the execs.
The Repubs. sold the church-folk on a supposed shared messianic outlook and the polls got submarined last time out. It is even possible that the voting machine manufacturer/supplier is either a Repub. zealot or a religious extremist (or both) and that the machines were tampered with in order to guarantee the Republican victory (after all, if Jesus wants the Repubs to win, then cheating in order to make Jesus happy must be the right thing to do). Now as we head into the mid-term election season with the congressional outcome in question, the vice-president's co-conspirators in the manipulation of national/world energy markets are seeing to the reduction of consumer fuel prices to bolster that odds of incumbent victories.
Someone, some cog in the Repub. gearbox, is sure to have a graph that shows the correlation between gas prices and the probabilities of incumbent re-election. Can there be any mystery as to why we are hearing projections of $2 per gallon at the pump?
Wherever that chart is, it is a sure bet that we are prevented from knowing about it because of "national security" concerns. It is probably safely tucked away in the same place as those votes that were counted in Ohio last time around.
The energy companies authored the energy policy adopted by the Bush Administration. The energy companies have reported serial record profits since the administration's adoption of that policy. The energy companies would be well served by a continuation of the current energy policy. The investment required to lower prices during the campaign/election season is minimal in respect to the gargantuan profits already reaped and those that are sure to come starting shortly after Diebold is finished juggling our votes to give them the result they want.
Call me cynical, call me crazy, but these are the times we live in and these are the men that are paving paradise and putting up a toxic dump. The Repubs. will pull out all stops in hopes to win enough congressional seats to keep the administration insulated from accountability. Gas prices will then resume the march back toward $100 per barrel shortly after November 7. Middle East instability will remain the chief justification.
Do the rest of us have the guts to stop them?