There's something in the air...(sniff)...oh, never mind, it's just the usual arrogance

An amazing irony- at the same time the GOP is planning, more or less, their love-in at the Xcel Energy Center in Minneapolis, Senate Republicans are monkey-wrenching renewal of key tax credits for investment in and production of alternative energy sources. At the same time, however, conservative Democrats in the House are in the midst of petulant hissy-fitting, vowing to block any extension that adds to the deficit.

Are you fucking kidding me? I haven't heard much in the way of protest over the tax credits being shoveled from the back of Capitol Hill's truck onto the lawns of the oil companies, nor have I heard much in the way of argument over House Democrats throwing the checkbook and a pen to President Bush every time the phrase "Iraq," or "terrorism" pops up, so the stance on the alternative energy tax credits smacks of the usual half-cocked arrogance we have come to expect from so-called politicians like Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who thinks nothing of investing in alternative energy plans, like those proposed by T. Boone Pickens, while not even understanding basic principles, such as natural gas being a fossil fuel (on Meet the Press last week, Pelosi referred to natural gas as an alternative to fossil fuel)

This arrogance is ill-afforded, with not only loss of jobs and commerce hanging in the balance, but definable, if not clear-cut solutions to our nation's dependence on over-priced oil.