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Charles Schumer, surely one of the sleaziest senators ever to slither from the primordial smegma, decides to take the DNC and CNN's hyped cues and focus on rising prices at the pump as a Bush attack angle. Watch Chuck engage a chicken little issue with an ineffectual, irresponsible, chicken-shit solution:

Hey, let's use our finite strategic oil reserves to bring gas prices down slightly, even though much larger long-term trends point to sustained price inflation based on rising world demand for fuel due to extremely hot economic growth and the emergence of new economies in the far East. I mean, this is an emergency, right? Americans paying $2 a gallon is surely something as dire as, say, a catastrophic terrorist attack that disrupts the world's oil supply, right? Right?

You can always count on Schumer to focus his beady, reptilian stare on the most politically expedient problems and solutions on the planet. The very existence of Charles Schumer makes the Baby Jesus cry. Charles Schumer is the "uber-Copperhead Fedayeen."

Jeff G wraps this sentiment in more highly disturbing, yet accurate terms with his unfortunate list of "9 things that are not Chuck Schumer but very well could be," which includes:

4. The videotaped taunting of a developmentally disabled child

3. Any Ratt CD not named Out of the Cellar

UPDATE: Looking back at Protein Wisdom's complete list, I'm not sure who I despise more; Schumer or ... Jeff G, for casually stringing the words "Cynthia McKinney," "dirty' and "thong" into a sentence.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Some European perspective:

Gas prices are pumped up in Europe
Cost ranges from $4.78 to $5.69; high taxes make public transit attractive

Unless you happen to make your living driving hundreds or thousands of miles a week, petulant complaints about the rise in gas prices are a bit silly, no?

Posted by Bill at May 19, 2004 05:06 AM | TrackBack (0)