Cheap Stunts

Republicans are trying to buy the support of the American people by giving everyone a $100 check this summer to help with high gasoline prices. I just love these stunts. Ultimately the money will come out of your refund check at the end of the year or create a larger deficit but, hey, the Republican congress thinks Americans are stupid so they'll push this through and probably get a few votes from it. Stunts always worked for Bush.

Five years into his term and we now see where the Republican energy policy written by the oil companies has led us. Surprised?

And then there's this political stunt...

House Speaker Dennis Hastert of Ill., center, gets out of a Hydrogen Alternative Fueled automobile, left, as he prepares to board his SUV, which uses gasoline, after holding a new conference at a local gas station in Washington, Thursday, April 27, 2006 to discuss the recent rise in gas prices. Hastert and other members of Congress drove off in the Hydrogen-Fueled cars only to switch to their official cars to drive back the few block back to the U.S. Capitol. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

These guys are so lame.