[flowerplough]

As recently as seven years ago, in the wake of 9/11, President Bush could have used our renewed sense of duty and patriotism to hike the gasoline tax and push through higher CAFE standards...

If Bush had pushed the price to $2.50,... he would have been impeached, lynched, and buried in an unmarked grave.

Jimmy Carter, Cynthia Tucker, and all the other weathervane Democrats would have screamed about the how hard the Man's taxes came down on the urban poor, and the 2006 Dem Congress would have been elected in 2002.

[cake_crumb]

If Bush had hiked the gas tax that high in 2001 the brain dead public would have nodded sagely to one another as they blamed the Vast Bush/Cheney/Halliburton Conspiracy. THEN he would have been impeached, lynched, and buried in an unmarked grave.