The Democrat Plan For Losing

by Charles Krauthammer - August 8th, 2008 - Townhall.com

The green fuels the Democrats insist we should be investing in are as yet uneconomical, speculative technologies, still far more expensive than extracted oil and natural gas. We could be decades away. And our economy is teetering. Why would you not drill to provide a steady supply of proven fuels for the next few decades as we make the huge technological and economic transition to renewable energy?

Congressional Democrats demand instead a clampdown on "speculators." The Democrats proposed this a month ago. In the meantime, "speculators" have driven the price down by $25 a barrel. Still want to stop them? In what universe do traders only bet on the price going up?

The article talks about the Democrat plan to "invest" in "green" sources of energy. Let's just remember how rarely government has successfully invested in anything. Picking winners has never been government's forte. Tyranny has always been the one thing government is good at.

I keep trying to remind people the primary goal of liberals is to implement socialist domination of our people. They are wrong when they say man is causing global warming. They are wrong when they say we are running out of oil. They are wrong when they oppose nuclear. They are wrong when they oppose drilling.

However I need to remind everyone that polls claim the American people trust Democrats far more than they trust Republicans. Democrats are proud of that support and are far more concerned with people who support socialist redistribution of wealth than with anyone who works hard for a living.