>This time it REALLY is Bush's Fault.<
Ok, how is it Bush's fault the 84 year old Saudi King died, leaving the stage set for massive instability in the kingdom?
Faud's been disabled with a stroke for 10 years and his 82 yr. old half-brother, Abdullah, has been running Saudi all this time. There is NO change in leadership. What we do have is a bunch of greedy speculators in the commodity markets who are bidding up the price and a do-nothing administration in bed with the oil companies. If W doesn't bring this to a halt by releasing oil from the Strategic Oil Reserve, which is bulging at the seams, he can kiss the Republican majority in the House goodbye next year. Voters will get even at the polls for having to put $60 in the pickup truck so they can drive to work to pay more taxes. When the big truckers start to jack up their prices to pay for $3 diesel, inflation will show up in everything we buy very shortly now. That's when the excrement will hit the fan for the Republicans.