Lenin invented this classic move: blaming the Tsars for jailing and torturing hundreds of Russian political prisoners at the same time the Cheka was rounding up and torturing tens of thousands.
The Soviets continued that until the very end. I was in college at the end of Carter and beginning of Reagan, and I studied international affairs quite a bit. Every single week Pravda or Tass would accuse the US of building something not permitted by treaty, fomenting violence and terrorism, hiding weapons, planning invasions, etc., etc. It didn't take very long for me to realize that the clearest clue to what the Soviets were doing was to ready their papers and switch the names. We could've saved a fortune on the intelligence budget just by doing that.
As for Pelosi, Reid and their fellow travelers: what absolute scumbags! We're all suffering with high fuel prices, which affects EVERY sector of the economy, and those power-hungry idiots won't allow more drilling, won't allow more refineries to be built, won't allow more coal production, won't allow nukes and won't allow full-scale development of our HUGE shale oil reserves (estimated at 9, count'em 9 times the size of Saudi Arabia's oil reserves). Nope, nothing practical from these enemies of the American people...we're just supposed to hop onto bicycles to get to work, and power our homes with windmills.
And probably be taxed to do it, no doubt. Carbon footprints, you know!