How high does gas need to go before Republicans "lynch" Bush?

[benburch]

How high? You know that the average Republican is "Only in it for the money", and most of them drive gas guzzlers.

And many, many of them are heavily armed. (I know of some down south who have (or had) antitank missiles, for example.)

Seems to me we won't have to do a damned thing to take Bush out of office if it goes much higher, because they will demand that he go, and being heavily armed, they will get him to resign or be impeached out of fear of the consequences.

[Trajan]

1. Same script used in the past ....

Keep SHOVING the price upwards, raking in the huge 'windfall' profits as fast as possible, until republicans start to feel threatened, and then ease prices just prior to the election, and take credit for having an energy strategy ....

Gouge til it hurts, is the motto ....

Hey: It is Texan Multibillionaires who put the GOP in office, so it's only RIGHT that they have a chance to rape american families, who now have $300 extra dollars per year to siphon off .... right ?

It is their GOD GIVEN RIGHT to shove their profit motive up our collective asses .....

:sarcasm:

Same old GOP .... different century .....

[Maestro]

2. I voted never.

Really, the bushbots just can't admit they were wrong. I spoke to really nice one yesterday. He's been a long-time friend of the family. He is even critical of the repukes, but he will never vote Democrat or even admit that Democrats have been better for the economy in year's past. It's pathetic.

[tom_paine]

3. Never. Your core Busheviks have the mindset of Nazis

They would sooner liquidate 6,000,000 "Liberals" in Halliburton Homeland Detenetion Camp for Der Bushler than go against their programming.

[Syncronaut Seven]

4. What was the price of gas when * and co. siezed power?

That would have been a good time.

[Lost4words]

5. I posted a thread in GD re pawn shops seeing more biz due to gas$s

Granted New Mexico is a poor state by comparison to many, but for some reason our gas prices are the 7th highest in the country.

[benburch]

6. I see that here too.

There is a pawn shop here next to the supermarket. Used to have a sales floor that was fairly open. Lately it looks like my garage; packed to the rafters with stuff.

[Lost4words]

7. Wow! sooner or later this could blow up, people are pissed!

[benburch]

16. I think we need to campaign AT THE PUMPS.

Seriously. We could get permission of Democratic gas station owners, and hand out handbills for Dem candidates at the gas pumps.

[newswolf56]

8. Other: skyrocketing fuel prices are part of the long-range plan for...

maximum concentration of wealth; hence the prices will continue to rise indefinitely. (These runaway prices are also an expression of post-Peak Oil conditions, though that is far less relevant than the wealth-concentration that is suddenly driving the prices far beyond any projections for this point in the post-Peak Oil curve.) The ruling class -- that is, the Republican/theocrats and their corporate masters -- won't be hurt by gas prices no matter how high the prices go. The ruling class is hogging an ever larger portion of the money supply: precisely their purpose.

The concentration of wealth -- whether by skyrocketing prices, downsizing, outsourcing, pension-looting, forcible wage-reduction, destruction of the socioeconomic safety net, refusal to provide adequate healthcare, refusal to build adequate public transport, unfunding of public education -- all this is how the ruling class is preparing to weather the twin storms of global warming and the exhaustion of natural resources. The runaway concentration of government power -- the subversion of the Constitution, the imposition of theocracy, the creation of a police state -- all this is the political equivalent of the concentration of wealth: building the mechanism to subjugate the U.S. working class (that is, every one of us who is not independently wealthy) to levels of powerlessness and degradation unknown since the days of slavery. Yes the rising prices and the related collapse of the economy will eventually trigger widespread social disorder, but that will merely provide the ruling class with the excuse they need to formally end the American Experiment and replace it with unabashed tyranny. Capitalism is, after all, nothing more than infinite greed elevated to ultimate virtue -- and now in this time of crisis it is showing its true evil, both in purely economic terms and in how, specifically for the self-protection of the rich, capitalism is forcing both fascism and theocracy on the United States.

All this is obvious once one acknowledges the historical truth of class-struggle. But that awareness -- the key to understanding our plight and what to do about it -- is utterly tabooed. Thus because the McCarthy purges, corporate media and our dumbed-down public schools have stolen from us this all-important tool of analysis, we are denied the ability to recognize that a new, unprecedented and probably everlasting Dark Age is being forced on us, and all we do is dither, foolishly reassuring ourselves that "things will get better" when in fact the candle of liberty is flickering to eternal extinction.

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[misternormal]

9. Oil Co Spokesman on MSM...

"We don't set the prices for oil, the market does."

That just smells doesn't it?

When the quarterly profit statements are released by the oil companies, is congress going to call the CEOs to Washington again, to let them lie again?? (Not under oath of course.)

[Imagevision]

10. Bush loses house and/or senate, he's done, Rove won't even matter at all!

lame-duck-boy starts spending more time clearing brush at Crawford.

[lectrobyte]

11. Never. They (insert suitable value of 'they') will blame it on

environmentalists and Clinton for not drilling ANWR etc. etc.

[MiniMe]

12. Never, they all have gas company stocks n/t

[disidoro]

13. Poor Repugs?

Just an aside to this thread, some republicans could quite possibly be poor and not heavily armed. This issue could galvanize the nation and bring about some necessary changes. It would be a shame to waste an issue that can bring enough people of both parties together and foster that change.

Dan

[newyawker99]

20. Hi disidoro!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[sheelz]

14. Other

I think they would be more apt to send their sons and daughters off to war with any country that could getem some oil. That's frightening! :scared:

[951-Riverside]

15. It won't be the gas prices it will be the huge lost in '06

[Initech]

17. They would sooner let gas get to $20 / gal before anything happens

People could hypothetically burn the Exxon / Mobil headquarters down to the ground and the assholes in Congress wouldnt say anything.

[benburch]

18. I hope you are wrong. nt

[Initech]

19. I hope I'm wrong too

But it's damn proof that the energy industry has such a stranglehold on Congress that they wont care to do anything about rising gas prices.