Listening to President Bush is painful on so many levels. I just finished wincing through his news conference with the White House press corps. When asked about high gas prices, he claimed that the problem resides with Congress, stating that an expansion of domestic oil production is the answer, and that they’re holding it up. Allowing new refineries on US soil came up. He’s presumably also talking about drilling (i.e., “destroying Alaska for 10 barrels of oil” all over again?). You’ll be happy to know however that the problem is not related to oil companies and their record profits. Boy, I’m glad he cleared that up. For a moment, I had let my common sense overrule the trust I should have had all along in President Bush and vice Cheney, stupidly assuming that record profits in a time of economic crisis was criminal. Dumb me!

Similar to Bush’s answer to the same issue in the past, he again excused big oil. Remember when Bush stated not so long ago that these record profits were “perfectly normal in this economic environment”?

What I really don’t understand is why the Democratically controlled Congress doesn’t rain hell down on these oil companies? Can’t they schedule hearings from morning to night? Don’t they control the floor? Dumb me again, athletes on steroids trump. No wonder their approval ratings are lower than the President’s.

Do you ever have the feeling that the American people have been sold out from top to bottom? This is why I support Obama. Even if what they say about his inexperience is true (I don’t believe it, but ‘even if’…), you really have to ask if that isn’t a *good* thing. Look at all these *experienced* schmucks currently in office. Too experienced if you ask me. Every time I see Levin presiding over a hearing in Congress, it’s deja vu. Wasn’t he the guy that we threw out of the majority so many years ago? Why are we even having to see his do nothing face again? I’m an equal opportunity ‘throw the bums out’ advocate. I would rather see people in elected office that aren’t *experienced* in selling out.