Posted by
Rick on Friday, June 08, 2007 10:00:18 AM
Libs of all stripes like to reflect on the '90s as a wonderful time when gas prices were low, and no one was bothering us. Foreign affairs were an afterthought, and only the bubble-headed goons in Washington, D.C. needed to concern themselves with any of those global issues.
The Soviet Union was gone. It evaporated early in the '90s thanks to the efforts of Reagan/Bush, and we turned missle silos into high-end housing. It took a LOT of cash to transform an usable but newly-obsolete silo into living space. Nonetheless, such tasks appealed to some people, and such things happened - back in the '90s.
The new millenium dawned in 2001. We Americans decided we'd had enough of democratic politics of the '90s at the helm and elected GWB to the office at the end of the year prior. No problem. The Dims went screaming and crying because of dimpled chads and a failed election system of which they approved until this particular election. It was the Dims who gave us the voting system that we had here in PBC until the election in '00.
We elected GWB, and gas prices started to move. Can anyone tell me WHY prices started shooting through the roof upon GWB's election? Well, the reason is simple. The election of GWB meant that we, as a country, were more likely to respond militarily to events such as the bombing of the U.S. embassiess in Africa. The people who buy and sell gas futures knew that a dimocratic administration would not respond militarily to minor attacks that are far away. So fuel prices didn't move much during this time.
Well, we got the sucker punch on the morning of 9/11/01. The attack surpassed all attacks suffered during the 90s and the Clinton administration: the U.S. embassies in Africa and the Cole to which Clinton asked the military just to shrug it off.
So, for those of you who are kicking and screaming about the gas prices, you need to vote for one of those "troops-supporting" dimocrats. Be warned, however, in that doing so is likely to get us attacked again in a manner that will make the attacks on 9/11 look like minor events. So it's a gamble you have to consider during the next elections.
To vote for a dim is to ask the terrorists to attack us again because we will refuse to take the fight to them.