If I didn't know better ...

[welshTerrier2]

I just heard on the radio that gas prices at the pump have risen again for the seventh straight week ... doing a little "calendar math", that would put the beginning of all these price increases back to the week of the November, 2006 elections ... prior to that, we saw a voter-pleasing drop in prices ...

now, a less astute observer than I might presume that there was some hanky panky going on here ... of course, that sort of price-fixing would be illegal, you know ...

but I know better ... much better ... you see, the republicans are so deeply committed to a "free market" ideology that they would never, absolutely never, enlist the support of their corporate friends in the oil industry to manipulate prices to give them a political bump at the ballot box ...

some of you lefty cynics should have known that !!!!!