Reply #10: our first job is to educate the American people [View All]

they need to understand just how corrupting Big Oil has become ... i doubt any of the Dems will have the courage to say that's why we went into Iraq but Dorgan's statement is a great start ...

the response from the right will be:
first, ignore it ... maybe it will just go away ...
if other Democrats get on board, all hell will break lose ...
they'll try to paint the Democrats as anti-business ...
they'll try to paint them as not understanding the fierce competition there is for new sources of oil with India and China
they'll paint them as interfering with Big Oil's reinvestment program for research on alternative energy sources

if the Democratic Party chooses to rise up together to fight this battle in a meaningful way, the counter-balance to all of the above SHOULD NOT be a "pocketbook" justification only ... it needs to go further than that ... we have to make the case NOT that BIG OIL should have to sacrifice for the country (e.g. to "help out" with high gas prices) but rather that the government has become totally corrupted by BIG OIL and has exploited the American military and the American people to feather their own greedy nests ...

you either engage this battle or you continue to cower ... there is no middle ground ... it is time to reclaim this country for the American people ... if the fight is only over "pump sticker shock", it's going to be a very short battle and ultimately nothing will change ...