Defending The Sheiks

by digby

I know that Michael Steele made a big speech earlier, but I thought you all might be interested in what the real head of the Republican Party had to say today about the new mileage standards:

LIMBAUGH: Folks, this is the point. It is not that anybody at that press conference today, from Obama to Carol Browner and anybody else, they don’t care about being dependent on foreign oil. There are ways that are much more efficient and make much more sense than 35 or 39 miles to the gallon in a putt-putt to reduce our use of foreign oil.

They want the use of oil to continue. They just want the money for it. They don’t want the sheikhs getting the money, and they don’t want foreign oil companies getting the money. Obama wants it. Washington wants the money. And this is the first step: the universal or national fuel efficiency standard.

Do his dittoheads agree that the Shiekhs and the foreign oil companies should have the money rather than the United States government?

There was a time when such a thing might have been called treasonous. By Limbaugh. nowadays, bashing the US Government is considered patriotic. interesting how that works.

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