Russ Williams

Hermitage

As I put gasoline in my car I am so thankful we have a Democratic-controlled Congress. Before the 2006 election, they said they had an energy plan that should help control the price of gas.

That was then, gas at about $2.20 a gallon, and this is now, about $3.60 a gallon. Where is their plan and the oversight of this do-nothing Congress? They keep looking for something to blame Bush for.

Maybe their plan was to level off at $4 a gallon; we are almost there. They say no drilling in Alaska, no, just leave the oil there until it becomes worthless. No drilling offshore. It’s OK for the Russians and Cubans to drill there, but the U.S. should not compete against them.

The Democratic Congress pushes for more ethanol — great — now we cannot afford eggs, milk and bread and the gasoline price still goes up. Also they agree with the EPA that new refineries are bad.

This Democratic Congress also had a solution for the problems in Iraq. As a football analogy — you have a Bush quarterback who fights the way to the one yard line with lots of human sacrifice and pain. Then they want to change quarterbacks — Clinton or Obama. They throw an interception, the enemy runs it all the way back for a touchdown — the enemy wins and we lose everything.

Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi already said we have lost or cannot win — that is confidence.

Forget about the congressional oversight on the housing crisis. Buy everything you cannot afford, go in debt — the government will bail you out.

Fortunately Bush’s foreign policy has started to come around. France, Germany, and Canada are friends again. But Pelosi hasn’t given up — she is delaying the vote on the Colombia Free Trade Agreement — apparently trying to drive what is now an ally into the hands of Hugo Chavez of Venezuela.