WingRight

Excellent opinion piece in Investors Business Daily this morning:

Watching Democrat leaders in Washington respond to skyrocketing gas prices has been nothing short of a tutorial on the five stages of grief.

Weeks of conspicuous silence (denial). Lashing out at the oil companies, the White House, the markets, the oil companies again (anger). Repeated pronouncements that prices would stabilize at one point or another in the not-too-distant future (bargaining). The long faces trying to explain away their failure to pass a single energy bill that creates energy (depression).

Sen. Barack Obama topped it all off by saying he had hoped the rise in gas prices would have been a “gradual adjustment” so American families could adapt to the reality of four-buck gasoline. Acceptance.

For Obama, there is some cathartic value in paying four bucks for a gallon of gasoline. Tell that to the independent trucker paying $1,500 to fill up, or the school districts eliminating bus stops — or entire routes, for that matter. Tell that to the family that didn’t have the resources to carry out its travel plans over July Fourth.

On this issue, Washington isn’t just broken — it’s AWOL. Roadblocks to reform efforts have been reinforced by shopworn rhetoric and retread initiatives. Real initiatives have been supplanted by a mealy-mouth hodgepodge of supposed cure-alls, one more ineffectual than the next

The Dems were supposed to have such a good year then this nasty oil price thing comes rolling in. The party is in thrall to the eco-left and can’t win without them, but all these pesky voters aren’t willing to sit still and pay $4.00 for a gallon of gas.

Harry Reid is just sick about oil, coal, the whole thing.

Tags: Environment, Liberal Hysteria, Oil //