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By Josh Painter Posted in Democrats — Comments (2) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »

Democrats are nothing if not ironic. Their presumptive predidential nominee has made "Yes, we can" the buzzwords of his campaign, but the message his party sends to Americans is, "No, you can't."

Recent polls from Gallup, Opinion Dynamics, Rasmussen and Zogby are clear evidence that a majority of Americans support increased domestic oil drilling and refining, yet the Democrats in Congress continue to block every proposed bill which would allow it. Democrat "leaders" from from Nancy Pelosi to Harry Reid to Barack Obama and their supporters put their hands over their ears at the mere suggestion and repeat Talking Point #1: "We can't drill our way out of this." According to the Rasmussen survey referenced above, most Americans do not share this assessment.

Why, some may ask, would the Democrats continue to oppose domestic drilling when the majority of Americans are for it? That's an easy one. The Dems don't give a rat's rear end what the people want. What do the great unwashed, clinging to their guns and bibles as they do, know about energy and petroleum? No, those NASCAR-watching rednecks and rural rubes and their opinions, formed as they are without the benefit of higher education, don't matter to the Jackass Party. No, the only opinions on energy that matter to Democrats are those of the very special interests they are beholden to. It's the environmental lobby, stupid.

And it's not just on energy that the Dems refuse to consider what the people want. A new Gallup Poll finds that an overwhelming majority of Americans are opposed to the notion of income distribution as a tactic to improve the economy. Do you think the Democrats care?

No, the're too busy raising your taxes to notice. One of the first things Senate Democrats did after taking control of that body in 2006 was to pass the stiffest tax increase in American history. The take for big government? $700 billion of your very own dollars. And Congressional Dems are far from being done. You name it; they want to raise the tax on it - capital gains, income, dividends, estates and more. They even want to dust off one of the most colossal tax failures in recent history - the "windfall" profits tax on the oil companies which was tried in the 1980s and resulted in lower than expected revenues and even greater American dependence on foreign sources of oil.

You say that with gasoline at twice the price now than it was before the Dems took over Congress two short years ago, you need the money the Bush tax cuts saved you just to fill up the family sedan? You say that the family budget can hardly stretch far enough to buy the groceries? Suck it up. You just can't be trusted to manage your own money. I'll have you know that your betters in the liberal elite have plans for that dough. So much social engineering to do, so little time. There are simply too many leftist college professors who need your dollars for their "research" projects, not enough ethanol subsidies for Big Ag and too dang many folks being forced to have to work to earn a living.

One would think that going against the will of the people on bread and butter issues like gasoline prices and taxes would be suicidal for the Democrats. But they're not worried. They own the "mainstream" media and both houses of Congress, and they have a presidential candidate who rarely gets asked a hard question. When he does answer with some gaffe that's potentially harmful, it's just thrown under the bus with the rest of the trash. It will be dismissed with a wave of the hand and a statement to the effect of, "This isn't the garbage that I knew." Once they get said nominee into the White House, the Supreme Court is sure to become theirs, too. It's just a matter of time.

So whenever you get the silly notion that America has everything it takes to rekindle its once-upon-a-time world leading domestic energy industry, easing the pressure on the market price of oil and creating thousands of new jobs, hear the voice of the Democrat Party. Whenever you presume to think that you neeed more of your hard-earned money and that now isn't the time for the federal government to find new and ever so creative ways to spend it, remember what they are telling you: "No, you can't."

- JP