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Yesterday, I spent a few hours watching the Senate try to deal with the high price of gas, and the Dems bringing up a bill to control the speculation. The Democratic Senators brought out all these charts and graphs showing how and why they plan to deal with this crisis. And the Repub senators responding by ignoring the purpose of the bill dealing with speculation, but using their time to plead their 'drill, drill, drill' case for the oil companies. If ever there was a time to see who owned the Republicans, this was it. All the logic was on the Democratic side, and the Repukes looked like a bunch of crooks trying for that last drop of blood to satisfy their masters. There was a few cracks where the Repub senators face stiff competition for re-election. Olympia Snowe from Maine almost sounded like a Democrat when her turn came, and will vote for any of their legislation at this point. Don't know if the votes will be there to get something done on this, but I wish it was more publicized. They used to put people up for the firing squad for protecting theft in time of war, but I guess we have no pride anymore.
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