Posted by
Bob Siegel on Thursday, May 22, 2008 7:31:19 PM
Don’t you just love how our brave and gallant Senators seek
to solve our oil price hike crisis? They
drag in the heads of oil companies and ask them how much money they make. Hey, Senator, how much money do YOU make,
being that campaign finance reform has fixed things so that no one can run for
office without being wealthy? I just
love how you Democrats demonize the rich. Do you think the country is so stupid
we haven’t noticed your mansions and private jets? Do you think it’s a secret that your kids go
to private schools while you speak against vouchers?
Oh, and Senator? If
you are really looking to honestly solve this problem, rather than just
grandstanding and making it look like you are trying the solve the
problem, why won’t you let our American oil companies drill for oil in
America? You love to talk about how over
dependent we are on the Saudis. I agree.
So what are you going to allow us to actually do about it? If somebody dares to suggest that we drill in
Alaska or some other local
wilderness, we get a lecture on how that will endanger the life of Perry the
Polar Bear or Carrie the Caribou.
Or maybe you would allow us to take oil from Iraq
as a bill for liberating them from a sadistic dictator. Never mind. Forget it. Not a chance. France
would have a field day with that one. Russia
too. They may have made under the table
“oil for food” deals with Hussein in private while they sanctioned him in
public, but hey, why be personally penitent when you can blame all the problems
of the world on America?
OK. It won’t work in Iraq.
Maybe, instead, we should sit the Saudis down and try a strategy different from
begging. We remind them that we saved their necks during Desert Storm. We
offer them a choice: “Lower your
prices or we simply bill you for the fact that your nation is still alive.”
Sound good? I guess not. What would the
ethical UN say about us? That would
damage our global reputation for sure and interfere with all the change Obama
plans to bring about. Besides,
Ahamadinnejad and Hugo Chavez might give speeches on how evil we are. So will
their buddy, Jimmy Carter. We would also get lectures from The New York Times
and being in good standing with those honest journalists is far more important
than solving a problem.
Any more ideas, Senator?
Alternative energy, you say?
OK. How about building another
nuclear reactor? I didn’t think so. As
for this other alternative energy you keep talking about, I think we all know
it will be years before something like that is developed so it doesn’t really
help us much now, does it? If we someday
figure out how to run a car on Coca Cola or Jiffy Pop, fine. Until then, we
need to live in the present.
Well, you just keep hollering at the oil companies. It makes
you look good and after all, isn’t that what it’s really about? Senators don’t need to be good. They
just need to look good.
This is Bob Siegel, making the obvious, obvious.
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