Salazar [clueless] and Limbaugh [hero] Face Off
July 26, 2008
From the Rush Limbaugh radio show on July 23, 2008:
Senator Ken Salazar Stands in the Way of Lower Gas Prices
Rush Limbaugh: I wanted to alert you to the latest blowup between myself and the esteemed Democrat senator from Colorado, one Ken Salazar. I have here in my formerly nicotine stained fingers, ladies and gentlemen, a copy of the story at the Denver Post by Anne C. Mulkern: “Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh attacked Sen. Ken Salazar of Colorado today on the oil shale issue, while Democrat Salazar said the debate is not about lowering gas prices but about helping oil companies.
The story continues:
“In the 2004 election cycle, Ken Salazar ran as a new kind of Democrat: a guy not beholden to liberal ideology, who would do what’s right for the country. That rhetoric proved effective in Colorado, and Salazar won his Senate seat. This week, the Interior Department will unveil new regulations to allow the sale of oil shale leases on federal land. In the Western states, those leases could eventually unlock up to 800 billion barrels of oil. Last month, President Bush spelled out what that would mean for America, saying that one major deposit in the Rocky Mountain West alone would equal current annual oil imports for more than one hundred years! But guess who’s blocking the way? Yep. Ken Salazar (Democrat-Colorado). Last year Senator Salazar slipped language into a bill to bar the federal government from issuing final regulations for commercial oil-shale development.
“Even with $4-a-gallon gasoline, Ken Salazar (Democrat-Colorado) and his fellow Democrats are still preventing America from using our own resources to lower gas prices and create new jobs. In fact, Democrats — having killed off any chance of a gas-tax holiday — reportedly now want to raise the federal tax that you pay on each gallon of gas by ten cents, up to 28-plus cents per gallon! The moral, ladies and gentlemen (in case you haven’t figured it out) is that ‘new’ Democrats don’t exist. Running on change, running as a ‘new’ Democrat, running on being a moderate, only happens while running for office. In office, Salazar and his ilk revert to the same old liberals that they have always been — which means they don’t give a rat’s rear end about you or your gasoline price. That comes second, third or fourth, their own, the election,” and, of course, party loyalty.
Read the rest of the transcript here.
Essentially, Mr. Salazar said in an interview in an effort to set the record straight, “‘[Limbaugh is] spreading falsehoods along with many of the people who want us to essentially give away the public lands of Colorado.’” He also said that this is a giant trick to enrich the oil companies. As Rush pointed out, who is at fault here? Speculators or the oil companies? And if the oil companies are not going to bring in the oil, then who is? McDonalds? Wal-Mart? Of course it will enrich oil companies, their investors and the rest of the country by lowering gasoline prices! So what? – Editor
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