Guest Posting By Kevin Martin, Washington, D.C.

Congressional Democrats To The American People: "Let Them Eat Cake..."


The phrase, “Let them eat cake,” is often attributed to Marie Antoinette, but some believe that Jean-Jacques Rousseau also used the phrase when writing about a French Aristocrat insensitive towards peasants who could not afford bread at the time.

Whoever quoted the line is for history to figure out, but it would seem that this is the same bit of advice that Americans are getting from Congressional Democrats daily.

While Americans struggle daily with the high price of gasoline and demand that Congressional Leaders and the President do something long lasting to address the problem in poll after poll. Congressional Democrats would rather lecture the public on conservation tactics and engage in purely political stunts, while tooling around town in taxpayer funded Lincoln Town Cars or SUV’s with the air conditioner on full blast, than do something that would endanger their chance to expand their slim majorities in Congress. Simply put, the American People must suffer, so Democrats can gain absolute power in 2008!

For the middle and poor classes, the New Direction Congress of 2006 has led them kicking and screaming down a bumpy and dusty dirty road towards the ditch of “personal economic ruin.” Some Americans are even turning to crime or pawning personal treasures to simply buy a tank of gas. When Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Democrats came to power in January 2007, gas prices stood at $2.20 per gallon in the 2 years since gas prices have nearly doubled to nearly $4.40 in some areas. Yet the most that this “Do Nothing Congress” could come up with politically are 50+ fruitless investigations, a windfall profit tax gimmick that oil companies would simply pass on to the customer and political smears.

Congressional Members lease luxury cars and SUV’s for thousand’s of dollars monthly on our dime and gassing up for free at the gas pump located at the Capitol Hill Power Plant. Remember that in 2007, newly crowded House Speaker Nancy Pelosi demanded the Air Force to provide her with a Boeing 757, so that she could fly non-stop cross country with her family, staff and supporters in pure luxury, yet we are lectured daily on how we need to deal with the high prices of oil and gas.

I never professed to be the smartest person in the world. However, I do know that “If you produce more of a product that the price of that product will drop to market value.

OPEC, the Iranians and Hugo Chavez currently have Americans over a barrel and love the fact that they can demand any price they want thru production cuts, speculation on demand and saber rattling, while receiving daily assurances that the current leadership in Congress are bought and paid for toadies of the Socialist Environmentalists who use disinformation and scare tactics(such as man-made global warming) in their madding quest to turn America in to a over-regulated government mandated Socialist Utopia.

Despite the nightly disinformation campaign by Environmentalists and their puppets, Americans know that we have enough oil reserves to make us truly energy independent, while funding alternate energy technologies for the next 200 years.

The fact of the matter is that Environmentalists and Liberal Politicians have tried for the last 20+ year to convince the American People that oil is the big enemy and that no technologies exist allow us to extract our own nature resources with little impact to the environment. Simply put, “American Scientists can send a probe millions of miles to Mars to dig for ice, but yet we are suppose to believe that no technology exist that would allow for the extraction of oil out of the ground without spilling it all over the place.”

If Americans believe that we are too stupid to use these technologies to extract oil safely, then we do deserve to eat cake and for those of you who don’t know the cake I speak of is not the sugary snack you might think of. Cake was the name of the burned dough that collected around the edges of cake pans as the yeast rose during baking in old France and bakers sold to peasants cheaply.

Americans should not have to settle for cake crumbs from a “Do Nothing Congress” that only serves Socialist Special Interests, Hollywood Elites and props up 3rd world tin pot dictators with oil reserve, who then take money and fund terrorism worldwide, the last part alone should give Congress reason enough to lift the ban and drill.