It's Hard Out Here for a Pump [Ann Coulter]

HumanEventsOnline.com ^ | Apr 26, 2006 | Ann Coulter

[boryeulb]

I would be more interested in what the Democrats had to say about high gas prices if these were not the same people who refused to let us drill for oil in Alaska, imposed massive restrictions on building new refineries, and who shut down the development of nuclear power in this country decades ago.

Get Yours FREE!

But it's too much having to watch Democrats wail about the awful calamity to poor working families of having to pay high gas prices.

Imposing punitive taxation on gasoline to force people to ride bicycles has been one of the left's main policy goals for years.

For decades Democrats have been trying to raise the price of gasoline so that the working class will stop their infernal car-driving and start riding on buses where they belong, while liberals ride in Gulfstream jets.

The last time the Democrats controlled the House, the Senate and the presidency was in 1993. Immediately after trying to put gays in the military and socialize all health care, Clinton's next order of business was to propose an energy tax on all fuels, including a 26-cent tax on gas. I think the bill was called "putting people first in line at the bus station." This is the Democratic Party. That's their program.

Al Gore defended the gas tax, vowing that it was "absolutely not coming out" of the energy bill regardless of "how much trouble it causes the entire package."

And mind you, this was before we knew Gore was clinically insane. Back then we thought he was just a double-talking stuffed shirt who seemed kind of gay. The important thing was to force Americans to stop their infernal car-driving, no matter how much it cost.

Democrats in Congress promptly introduced an "energy bill" that would put an additional 25-cent-a-gallon tax on gasoline to stop "global warming," an atmospheric phenomenon supposedly aggravated by frivolous human activities such as commerce, travel and food production.

Democratic House Speaker Tom Foley endorsed the proposal on "Charlie Rose," saying: "I'd have a five-cent increase every year for five years. ... But that's not going to happen ... because we've got people who fret and worry that one- or two-tenths of a cent of a gasoline tax is going to cause some revolution at home." So in Tom Foley's universe, two-tenths of a cent is the same as a quarter -- another testimonial to the American public educational system.

The Democrats' proposed gas tax did cause a revolution at home, and consequently the Democrats were able to sneak through only an additional 4.3-cent federal tax on gasoline. After tut-tutting the idea that voters would object if the Democrats attempted a huge gas tax increase, Speaker Tom Foley soon became former speaker, and indeed former Congressman Tom Foley.

Gary Hart, another whimsical demonstration of what Democrats think a president should be like, said at the time, "I certainly favor consumption taxes, particularly on energy." Then there's John Kerry, who favored a 50-cent increase in the gas tax in 1994. If he were a rap artist, Kerry's stage name would be "Fifty Cent a Gallon."

Last year, a couple of green "climatologists" at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign were back at it in the journal Science, wheeling out their proposal for a 25-cent-a-gallon tax on gasoline as an "insurance policy" against global warming.

Just two months ago, we were being confidently told -- on the basis of a New York Times/CBS News poll, so it must be true -- that "Americans might OK a gasoline tax hike if it reduced global warming or lessened U.S. dependence on foreign oil." (This poll was wedged in among the 29 polls claiming Americans think we're losing the war in Iraq.) Other results from the Times' "meaningless polls" section: Americans might "OK" a Dennis Kucinich presidency if it meant free ice cream every Tuesday.

How many times do Democrats have to tell us they want to raise the price of gas for the average American before the average American believes them? Is it more or less than the number of times Democrats tell us they want to surrender in the war on terrorism?

It's as if a switch goes off in people's brains telling them: The Democrats can't be saying they want to destroy the lives of people who drive cars because my father was a Democrat, and the Democrats can't be this stupid!

The Democrats' only objection to current gas prices is that the federal government's cut is a mere 18.4 cents a gallon. States like New York get another 44 cents per gallon in taxes. The Democratic brain processes the fact that "big oil companies" get nearly 9 cents a gallon and thinks: WE SHOULD HAVE ALL THAT MONEY!

When the free market does the exact thing liberals have been itching to do through taxation, they pretend to be appalled by high gas prices, hoping the public will forget that high gas prices are part of their agenda.

[Michael.SF.]

When the free market does the exact thing liberals have been itching to do through taxation, they pretend to be appalled by high gas prices, hoping the public will forget that high gas prices are part of their agenda.

There goes Ann again, talking logic to liberals. She may as well be pounding her head against the frozen tundra hoping to strike oil.

[xcamel]

The price would drop by $2 a gallon with a single announcement....

"Bush announces open oil exploration and drilling on all US domestic and controlled foreign lands...."

[ClaireSolt]

this is top form for Ann.

[sarasmom]

BTTT

[proudmilitarymrs]

Oh Ann!!! You are so right!!!!


Thanks for posting it boryeulb!

[Responsibility2nd]

I wonder if House Democrats knew this was coming from Ann, as today they proposed rolling back federal gas taxes for 60 days?

[uncitizen]

Someone with a creative mind (unlike me) should come up with a version of Johnny Cash's "Man in Black" called "Woman in Black" for Ann.

I notice she wears black a lot. Maybe she's wearing the black until things get better.

[perfect stranger]

[Normal4me]

They aren't rolling back taxes, they are going to send the bill to the oil companies who in turn will have to raise the prices to offset it. The price stays the same and the gubmint gets the same revenue.

[quantim]

The last time the Democrats controlled the House, the Senate and the presidency was in 1993.

Just when Newt was licking his chops for the house cleanup in '94.  It's time for a new contract for '06.

Let's see:

1) Close the borders.

[Michael Barnes]

2) Do what xcamel said in post #3

[Admin Moderator]

This is not a border thread. Do not attempt to make it one.

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

She knocks it out of the park on this one.

[USS Alaska]

If demonRATs have their way.

[stockstrader]

This is one of Ann's best!!!

To borrow someone else's line here, "If it wasn't for double standards, democrats would have NONE"!

[marron]

This issue is being lobbed over the plate to us, all we have to do is wind up and knock it out of the park.

Even our dimmer neighbors can understand high gas prices, even Oprah watchers, even people whose lips move when they read, can understand high gasoline prices.

We should be roaring into battle over this; the prices we are paying are directly, directly caused by Democrats and Democrat policies and Democrat pressure groups and Democrat politicians pandering to Democrat pressure groups.

We haven't built refineries since our parents were good looking, the nuclear industry has been destroyed, we can't build pipelines, we have billions, billions, of barrels of oil offshore we can't drill, we have whole gas fields off limits, we can't build power plants, and we have radical nutballs, which is to say Democrat radical nutballs, organizing to shut down power plants we do have.

This is our issue, we own this issue. The politician who takes this and runs with it will be our next president.

[RonDog]

"...Al Gore defended the gas tax, vowing that it was "absolutely not coming out" of the energy bill regardless of "how much trouble it causes the entire package."

And mind you, this was before we knew Gore was clinically insane.

Back then we thought he was just a double-talking stuffed shirt who seemed kind of gay." - Ann Coulter

See also, from:

LIVE THREAD: GORE TV
( speech on live - C-span 1; noon)
be prepared to be afraid, very afraid.....):

AlGore, dressed as "UnderDog" (left)

[Rummyfan]

For decades Democrats have been trying to raise the price of gasoline so that the working class will stop their infernal car-driving and start riding on buses where they belong, while liberals ride in Gulfstream jets.

The last time the Democrats controlled the House, the Senate and the presidency was in 1993. Immediately after trying to put gays in the military and socialize all health care, Clinton's next order of business was to propose an energy tax on all fuels, including a 26-cent tax on gas. I think the bill was called "putting people first in line at the bus station." This is the Democratic Party. That's their program.

How did we ever survive eight years of these idiots? OTOH, it reassures me of the strength of our system and our nation.

Al Gore defended the gas tax, vowing that it was "absolutely not coming out" of the energy bill regardless of "how much trouble it causes the entire package."

And mind you, this was before we knew Gore was clinically insane. Back then we thought he was just a double-talking stuffed shirt who seemed kind of gay.

I don't care who you are, that's funny!

Thanks for the ping!

[Rummyfan]

I would be more interested in what the Democrats had to say about high gas prices if these were not the same people who refused to let us drill for oil in Alaska, imposed massive restrictions on building new refineries, and who shut down the development of nuclear power in this country decades ago.

And having created this situation, they hope to use it to return to power in the midterms. Gutless b*st*rds!