Media forgets Bush vowed to jawbone OPEC when oil was only $28/barrel.

[Karmadillo]

http://www.house.gov/schakowsky/article_4_27_04_Well_Oiled.html

(Apr. 24, 2004) With gasoline prices hitting the stratosphere, the presidential candidate chastised the incumbent for not being tough enough on the oil producers.

"I think the President ought to get on the phone with the OPEC cartel and say: 'We expect you to open your spigots.' The President of the United States must jawbone OPEC members to lower the price," declared Gov. George W. Bush four years ago. He vowed to do just that with the "Saudis" and others who cut oil production.

As Bush prepared to move into the Oval Office in early 2001, Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D IL) reminded him of that campaign promise and urged him to jawbone his friends in the energy industry to keep prices down. Instead, he hired them.

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At the time Bush made his jawboning vow, oil prices were nearly $28 a barrel; today they're about $10 higher. <and today, of course, they're $20 higher>

[Dimsdale]

1. Jawboning...

..yeah, right. The only boning going down is being done to all of us, taking it in the ass while Chimpy's oil buds rake it in. And WTF is jawboning? Is that what they say in Texas? In Pa., we say: Fuck you, George.

[Ironpost]

2. Here in Oklahoma we also say: Fuck you, george.

[Cronus Protagonist]

3. That was just campaign rhetoric

You can't expect him to deliver on anything he said during a campaign! That's when politicians lie the most!

SHOVE IT! - Drop Bush Not Bombs! - Hero Kerry AWOL Bush
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[realisticphish]

4. the only jawboning * has done with the oil companies

involves a body part other than the ear

:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat