Gang of Gangs
By Rense Johnson, Chairman, Citizens for Term Limits
September 12, 2008
The Republican Gang of Five has morphed into a Gang of eight.
They call themselves the Gang of Sixteen, but it’s only a camouflage, a feint. The Republican Eight are still a Gang of Turncoats. Only the numbers have changed.
The Wall Street Journal’s Kimberly Strassel calls the plan a Democratic giveaway. She says what they did was throw every vulnerable Democrat, and Mr. Obama, a life preserver.
At first it was only five Republican deserters who tried to snatch GOP defeat from the jaws of victory, just when Republicans had a sure winning issue. To the original list of five treacherous RINO (Republican In Name Only Senators—Graham, Thune, Chambliss, Corker, and Isakson—have been added three additional recruits: Minnesota’s Coleman, New Hampshire’s Sununu and Virginia’s Warner.
Ms. Strassel has written, “New production on offshore federal lands is left to state legislatures, and then in only four coastal states. The regulatory hurdles are huge. And the bill bars drilling within 50 miles of the coast—putting off limits some of the most productive areas. Alaska’s oil-rich Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is still a no-go.
“The highlight is instead $84 billion in tax credits, subsidies and federal handouts for alternative fuels and renewables. The Gang of 10 (now 16) intends to pay for all this in part by raising taxes on…oil companies! The Sierra Club couldn’t have penned it better. And so the Republican Five has potentially given antidrilling Democrats the political cover they need to neutralize energy through November.”
The RINO Gang of Eight are falling all over themselves to release the Democrats from their self-made trap which had resulted in four-dollar gasoline and all the pain, disruption and economic hardship it has inflicted upon the American people, either directly in the pocketbook, or indirectly through air fares, shipping costs and general inflation. Don’t they ever think?
Whom do they listen to? How can nearly one-sixth of the Republican Senate be so stupid—and rolled so easily?
These RINO purveyors of perfidy have disgraced their party and themselves.
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