Yes, of course, the Democrats have blocked any sensible energy plan for six years. It's not that President Bush didn't try to pass legislation, it's just that he is just too NICE and POLITE.
It's all very well to be nice and polite when you're a private citizen, but part of his job as president was to move the US toward energy independence. He never really spoke out on this issue or attacked the Democrats the way Harry Reid is now attacking him.
It's hard to do when the Democrats control the media, but if you never really bring these issues out in the open, then it's not surprising that the voters are confused and bamboozled.
exactly right.
if you don't go negative, people can't differentiate why your positions are right, and the opposition is wrong.
The Congress actually did pass an energy bill after Bush prodded them for years. The bill unfortunately contained almost none of the energy policy that our national security desperately needs, but it did recycle tired canards, offer vague platitudes, and distribute train loads of corrupt political pork. Even under nominal Republican control, the Congress utterly failed to confront the daunting problems of our generation and our posterity, failed to make any difficult choices that might generate political animosity, and acted only ambivalent about the seminal issue of our time, Islamofascist terrorism.