I watched Hillary Clinton on Bill O’Reilley. I was impressed with her more than I have been in the past. However, she convinced me that Democrats are offically losers. When asked about energy prices, especially oil, Hillary’s response was: I’ll sue ‘em.
Is this the mantra of the democrats?
When things don’t go our way we sue?
I hate to tell Hillary, but this works where people have to follow a rule of law, and the people involved in the decision will follow the rule of law. Hillary said she’d take our case to the WTO and sue them. Gee, Hill, who do you think other members of the WTO are going to side with? Do you think they’ll say go USA, or do you think they’ll say, sorry USA, but you don’t really have a case. I believe the latter, because when you get down to it, they are going to protect their country’s interests first, and that means doing nothing to upset the flow of oil to them. Even if the case is valid, it will be rejected, or delayed or some other tactic will be used to prevent a decision that could put other members at risk for “oil wrath.” In the short run, energy prices will continue to increase…in the long run “we are all dead.”
Who is Hillary afraid of? Environmentalists. She would rather see the people in the country suffer under crushing energy prices than upset a few (and I mean a few) environmentalists. This is a prime example of the “pandering” the Republicans are constantly charging us with (and here they are right on the money). Rather than stand-up and say: Hey, we’re going to take a short-run hit on some overly restrictive enviromental policies, but we’re going to beef up domestic production. We are going exploit what’s under North Dakota. We are going to begin limited access to ANWR. And we’re going to open drilling in the Gulf (by the way, China is contracting with Cuba to do this).
What effect would this have?
1) It would scare OPEC more than any lawsuit.
2) It would send a message that Hillary is willing to put the country’s needs ahead of the special interests.
3) It would create jobs! Good/high paying jobs.
The funny thing is – We may not even have to tap a single well – just the threat would be enough to worry OPEC. But then again, what do I know. I’m just another meaningless blogger
