In 1992, B.J. Clinton campaigned on a “Middle Class Tax Cut.”
In 2000, John Edwards promised to make Christopher Reeves walk again.
Now Michael McAuliff, Daily News(NY), reports Mrs. William Clinton is promising “Elect me and oil prices instantly drop:” Sure Honey, I’ll still respect you in the morning.
Mrs. Clinton seems to know almost as much about economics this year as she did about health-care in 1994. She can not get past seeing the world in terms of evil villains, which sees every where.
First, Mrs. Clinton blames oil prices on the oil producing countries:
When the world hears her commitment at her inauguration about ending American dependence on foreign fuel, Clinton says, oil-pumping countries will lower prices to stifle America’s incentive to develop alternative energy
“I predict to you, the oil-producing countries will drop the price
If Mrs. Clinton’s plan is so good, and evidently does not require action by Congress, why wait the ten weeks from Election Day to Inauguration to announce it? Why not just announce her magic plan the day after her election, and give her voters ten extra weeks of cheaper oil?
Second, Mrs. Clinton forgetting that she had already blamed the price of oil on oil producing countries, then proceeded to blame the price on oil companies:
She warned that folks shouldn’t be grateful now if oil countries cut prices from near $100 a barrel to $60 or $70, and compared it to trying to boil a frog.
“You put him in hot water, it jumps right out, you put him in cold water and turn up the heat – he’s a goner,” she said. “We’ve got to figure out how were going to not be the frog in the cold water anymore
Oh course, Mrs. Clinton already has her eight million dollars. Why should she care what you pay for oil. She likes Jimmy Carter’s energy plan, but dislikes Ron Reagan’s, because the Gipper’s made the price of gasoline less expensive.
Clinton argued that former President Jimmy Carter in the late 1970s actually started moving in the right direction toward energy independence, but his successor, Ronald Reagan, “dismantled” that work.
“Because costs were low, people didn’t care, didn’t complain,”
As Mrs. Clinton sees it, the more energy costs the better it is for her. Sure Mrs. Clinton can afford her energy plan, but can you?
More, Blackhedd. Red State, adds, “What Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Know About the Price of Oil.”
Hat Tip photo: HillaryNation.
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