and he was banging the pots hard for a windfall profits tax on big oil.
In the past week everyone from Harry Reid to Arlen Specter has come out in favor of this particular option.
Given the way gas prices just keep goin' up look for High Pitched Rick Santorum to come out loud against the Petroleum Barony within another week or so.
Meanwhile this is an issue we own, one that covers a broad spectrum of support and everyone from Bob Casey to Bernie Sanders can get behind it.
Of course, the President will never sign such a measure, it would be treason against the oil companies that elected and sustain him. But as we segue into the fall it is a marvelous device to highlight strong populist differences between us and the GOP.
Since it is such a strong dose of medicine for the powerful and unaccountable, look for the Scot Lehighs and Joe Kleins within the punditariat to denounce the measure soonest.
Which is PROOF of the idea's excellence in my humble opinion.
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