More democratic pipe dreams: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/06/...ess/index.html

Bush wants to increase drilling, now to increase production...Dems...want money spent on reducing demand and oppose new drilling.....GO STUPIDS.

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An unwavering defender of those I see worth protecting.

"promote the general welfare, not provide the general welfare"

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

It doesn't It only raises revenues for local and state law enforcement, and make the prius driving eco-terrorists happy.

Wagner has a really good point. If our economy falls, so does everybody elses. I don't care how righteous or euro-centric or pro-asia you are, its completely true. I think that the other thread about SA questioning this is a sign that the global market realizes that we're on a slippery road to becoming the planet Exxon rather than Earth.
THAT would be communism for ya.