When Bush was harping on Bill Clinton's inability to use his 'capital' with OPEC, oil was $28 a barrel. Yesterday it closed at over $127 after the Saudis told Bush where he could take that 'capital'."Bush continued to criticize the Clinton administration saying it has virtually no fuel policy. He said that in dealing with the current oil problem, he first would have used his `capital' with some of the OPEC nations, such as Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, and asked them to `open the spigot.'"- (Washington Post, "Gas Prices, Surplus Fuel a Gore Proposal," June 28, 2000-source)
We shouldn't be asking the Saudis anything. We should be telling them sons-of-bitches what's going to happen.
But instead we get George W. Bush.
Another fine example of conservative Republican leadership.
