Gingrich ‘Drill Here Drill Now’ Book Blames ‘Left-Leaning Politicians’ For Energy Crisis
Gingrich ‘Drill Here Drill Now’ Book Blames ‘Left-Leaning Politicians’ For Energy Crisis
As the Wonk Room reported yesterday, Newt Gingrich’s “Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less” campaign will soon include the launch of a book, inventively titled Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less: A Handbook for Slashing Gas Prices and Solving Our Energy Crisis. Drill Here, Drill Now was ghostwritten by American Solutions for Winning the Future (ASWF) official Vince Haley, formerly Newt’s research director at the American Enterprise Institute, the premier Exxon-Bush think tank. It’s being published by Regnery Publishing, the right-wing organ that distributed Jerome Corsi’s Unfit For Command.
Newt’s book oozes with false sympathy for working Americans:
The suffering of Americans due to high energy prices is bad enough. But there’s more: powerful people believe that Americans — everyday folks just trying to earn a living, feed their families, and help others — are actually the root cause of the energy crisis. These influential people — many of them the very same individuals who helped create the energy crisis in the first place — have little compassion for the suffering of their fellow countrymen.
Who are the “influential people” who “helped create the energy crisis in the first place” Gingrich and Haley blame? Is it Bush, Cheney, Halliburton, Enron, Exxon Mobil, Peabody Coal, Tom DeLay, John McCain, hedge-fund speculators, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich himself, or others in the conservative elite who have profited from skyrocketing energy prices and prevented change while American families suffered?
Nope! The villians in Newtland are “anti-energy, left-leaning politicians.”
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Republicans passed a comprehensive energy bill in 2005. Upon signing, President Bush said:
The Energy Policy Act of 2005 is going to help every American who drives to work, every family that pays a power bill, and every small business owner hoping to expand.
Instead it helped oil companies reach record profits, while using their ample cash flow to buy back stock and pay dividends. Newt’s a tool…
September 5th, 2008 at 9:42 amWhere is Newt’s supply solution on health care?
Build Now (hospital beds)
September 5th, 2008 at 1:48 pmTrain More (doctors)
Pay Less
I just finished reading an advance copy of the book sent to me by an easily-duped college chum who works for a conservative (religious) broadcaster. It’s a simplistic work that didn’t take long to read. As you might expect, it’s another disconnected, finger-pointing rant promoting the latest GOP slogan binge pinch-hitting in lieu of responsible energy policy. The text is basically a regurgitation of the same tired nonsense you can hear for free – repeated ad nauseam – from slippery, Oil-funded politicians and their propaganda lackeys in the media.
This book would be more appropriately titled Fork Over $14.95, You Dope! My advice is to save your money. You’ll need every penny before Big Oil lets you go!
Gingrich’s toxic rhetoric will leave the world-wise reader with a truly disturbing thought: will this short-sighted inanity actually become national policy? If, God forbid, that should come to pass, sadly, our children and grandchildren, and their children and grandchildren will be the ones getting drilled!
September 13th, 2008 at 11:29 pm