The only thing worse than someone saying this with a straight face is . . .

The rest of us allowing it to be said without the criticism and ridicule it always deserved.

Bush warns of 'tough summer' with higher petrol prices(April 22, 2006) from www.breitbart.com/news

AUS President George W. Bush has warned rising oil prices will mean a "tough summer" for US consumers as the high cost of gasoline (petrol) showed signs of becoming a big political issue.

But even as more Americans expressed discontent over the price of filling up their gas tanks, Bush suggested there was little his government could do in the short term about the problem.

"We're going to have a tough summer because people are beginning to drive now during tight supply," Bush said as he toured a California facility developing hydrogen-powered vehicles.
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Again, at the risk of being accused of being an anti-American, commie-pinko, knee-jerk liberal, whining, naysaying nattering nabob of negativism . . . . isn't our fearless leader using the same arguments arrayed against him in late 2002/early 2003 to get the American public not to lynch him over the crunch of being in a petroleum-based economy?