Delusions of Adequacy

The U.S. House of Representatives reached rock bottom on February 27, 2008 and started to dig. They voted to raise the price of gasoline at the pump. That’s right, they voted to raise the price of gasoline. Our “elected representatives,” led by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, passed H.R. 5351 (House Roll Call No. 84, 110th Congress, 2nd Session). This is a Bill that will jack UP the price of gasoline because Congress has foolishly decided in a socialist pique of retaliation to impose an $18 BILLION punitive tax – a tax INCREASE on oil companies - a tax that will simply be passed on to the American consumer at the pumps. That tax increase has nine zeros after the number 18.

While the tax would be levied against the oil companies, the tax will be levied by the oil companies against us at the pumps. We, citizens and aliens alike, are going to have to pay for every dime of the tax increase, 18 billion dollars.

For what possible reason would Democrats do this? Spite? To destroy the United States economy? Or was it a page out of Hugo Chavez’s play book, i.e., the first steps to nationalize what remains of the energy industry that hasn’t already fled to foreign shores?

If taxing Americans more for their energy consumption was not bad enough, energy they need to get to jobs, education, grocery supplies, to heat their homes, and to produce goods and services (the foundation of what remains of our economy), these anti-American treasonous malcontents, including Representative Harry Mitchell, voted to exempt Hugo Chavez’s oil company, CITGO, from the tax increase in the same bill.

You read that correctly.

At the same time, in the same Bill, in H.R. 5351, the House of Representatives saw fit to give a HUGE tax break to Hugo Chavez, Venezuela’s dictator. I suppose I could say, “Please excuse Harry. It was his father’s fault.” But that’s no excuse. Maybe the explanation is that he played with glue too much as a child. Suffice it to say, while the tax increases on oil companies at this moment in our fragile economy was a vicious personal assault on every American, the tax break for Hugo Chavez was clinically insane.

Investor's Business Daily (IBD) put it this way in an editorial titled, "Tax Cut for Hugo:"

"It goes to show that Congress is more willing to empower dictators than to get serious about America's energy supply."

Regardless of what you think of President George W. Bush, or any individual member of Congress, that’s not relevant in this discussion. H.R. 5351 was crafted to gift to Hugo Chavez an incredible amount of United States taxpayer money – your money – money that could otherwise have fed your family, paid your mortgage, and clothed your children.

Why did Speaker Pelosi and Representative Harry Mitchell (AZ-D5) recklessly and knowingly reward an anti-American dictator, a partner of Iran and Russia, by raising taxes on American citizens? How could tax increases be in our nation’s national interest? Have we learned no lessons? What could possibly be in Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s self-interest to pass such a bill. Is her issue a pathological gut-wrenching hate of the United States of America?

Why does Rep. Harry Mitchell repudiate his fellow citizens, many of whom struggle to survive from payday to payday, some of whom are losing their homes to foreclosure? Of all the things Harry Mitchell has lost in his life, I’m sure he would tell you he regrets most losing his mind.

There is not one person in the United States, citizen, alien or illegal alien that will not be seriously financially harmed by this potential legislation. The increased cost of petroleum, and all related products derived from petroleum, will not only cost every American more, the increase will cost every level of government more, and those increases will also be passed on to American consumers in the form of state, county and municipal tax increases.

First Congress attempted to destroy the world’s food supply with corn-based ethanol; next they engineered the declining value of the U.S. Dollar attempting to hide their profligate spending, and in the process destroyed the American middle class; then they refused to close the nation’s borders which resulted in the loss of millions of jobs and the deaths of more than 70,000 United States citizens at the hands of an illegal alien in the last two decades – a carnage that continues to this day; and now they seek to push the United States into an economic depression raising the price of energy by adding multiple layers of additional taxation. Meanwhile, Hugo Chavez prances around the globe demonstrating conclusively that the inmates really are running the asylum – in many countries, some very close to home.

When Venezuela’s newspapers, radio, and TV began to criticize Hugo Chavez several years ago, he simply 'nationalized' the media – seized it, just as he did the petroleum industry. Now the Venezuelan media prints only his propaganda. If that were not enough, Chavez has repeatedly demonstrated intense anti-Semitic behavior. His history of hysterical diatribes against Israel and the Jewish people is uncontested.

If France, Germany, Korea, Russia and Pakistan openly (or secretly) assist Iran in the development of nuclear weapons, and Venezuela is their mutual ally, how long will it be before the United States faces the specter of a nuclear Venezuela? Well, somebody better start thinking about it! Venezuela already manufactures and distributes Russian AK-47’s throughout Central and South America.

Monisha Bansal of CBS News said: "Senate Democratic leaders have indicated they would fast-track the bill to try to avoid a Republican filibuster." Fast-track the bill? Just as the Senate tried to do with “comprehensive immigration reform?”

Republican House Minority Leader John Boehner said:

"Middle-class families and small businesses are feeling the squeeze from rising costs for gasoline, food, and other costs of living..."

"I am disappointed that the Majority voted down a Republican proposal to eliminate the tax relief for Hugo Chavez and give it to those who need it most: middle-class American families."

Arizona’s Democratic Party delegation in the House of Representatives voted unanimously “Yea” to H.R. 5351. If the following group of ne’er-do-wells were any more stupid, they would have to be watered twice a week.

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-8) Yea
Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-7) Yea
Rep. Harry Mitchell (D-5) Yea
Rep. Ed Pastor (D-4) Yea

As you might expect, Arizona’s Republican delegation unanimously voted “Nay.”

You have to wonder. Does Representative Harry Mitchell, AZ-D (5) have delusions of adequacy? We should help him dispel those thoughts at every opportunity.

Red State Patriot

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Posted March 16, 2008 05:10 PM
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