Saturday, April 29, 2006
From the I-Can't-Believe-How-Dumb-They-Are section it was recently revealed that the state of Minnesota is forcing Midwest Oil Company to pay a $140, 000 fine for selling gas too cheap. That's right. Since 2001 Minnesota has been setting minimum gas prices to keep the little businesses going. Well, isn't that the problem of the little businesses? It's been shown in studies that when Wal-Mart, for example, comes into a community, the price of food at other stores in the area drops roughly 25%. If the little companies want to compete, they can lower their prices too and they can always depend on local clientele to keep them running. But when the prices are hiked up to the ears, the average Joe can't afford to have too many principles and would be driven to buy gas where he can get it the cheapest. This benefits the consumer, someone liberals claim to like while enacting policies that bleeds him white.
As one of the foremost critics of the Carter mal-administration, the Pendragon is furious that critics from every point are now comparing George W. Bush to the inept, incompetent preacher-boy who presided over both the failure of US domestic policy and the nadir of US foreign policy and then had the gall to accuse the American people of causing it. In a way I suppose they did--by electing "Malaise" Carter in the first place. Bush it was suggested would lash out and accuse the American people of causing the problems he has faced in his second term. N.B.: he has not. Bush is far smarter than Carter, indeed than most politicians of the last thirty years and has been for awhile. In running for President, Bush raised the ire of many on the Right by claiming that Republicans too often picture America "slouching towards Gomorrah." He was right: decrying the wrong with no clear plan for doing the right is no program and the American people know it. Now the Left are on tenterhooks, hoping that the man who did something Carter never did (i.e. earned a second term) will make the same mistake as their fallen hero and blame the workings of a fallen world on the people who put him in office. So far at least Bush has resisted the temptation. I can only hope he will continue to do so. Relief is coming.
As one of the foremost critics of the Carter mal-administration, the Pendragon is furious that critics from every point are now comparing George W. Bush to the inept, incompetent preacher-boy who presided over both the failure of US domestic policy and the nadir of US foreign policy and then had the gall to accuse the American people of causing it. In a way I suppose they did--by electing "Malaise" Carter in the first place. Bush it was suggested would lash out and accuse the American people of causing the problems he has faced in his second term. N.B.: he has not. Bush is far smarter than Carter, indeed than most politicians of the last thirty years and has been for awhile. In running for President, Bush raised the ire of many on the Right by claiming that Republicans too often picture America "slouching towards Gomorrah." He was right: decrying the wrong with no clear plan for doing the right is no program and the American people know it. Now the Left are on tenterhooks, hoping that the man who did something Carter never did (i.e. earned a second term) will make the same mistake as their fallen hero and blame the workings of a fallen world on the people who put him in office. So far at least Bush has resisted the temptation. I can only hope he will continue to do so. Relief is coming.
// posted by The Pendragon @ 2:26 PM 
