I think the GOP is missing a huge opportunity when it comes to high oil prices. They should push through a "raise the domestic oil supply bill" that the Democrats will predictably vote down. Then paint the Democrats as the party that supports the money supply of "Death to America" Mullahs and Socialist Dictators. When Americans sees $4.20 gas they need to think it is the Democratic Congress' fault for propping up anti-American foreign powers.
The current narrative is Americans versus fat-cat Big Oil. It needs to be Americans versus Foreign Oil Sheiks, Iranian Mullahs, and Socialist Dictators. Play the nationalist card. The GOP needs to say that oil that we pump isn't the same oil that buys bomb belts, represses Venezuelans, or funds anti-American Madrasas. Make pumping domestic oil into a patriotic issue and not a economic one. Opening ANWAR and increasing offshore drilling would be the same as not using Mullah-oil or Chavez-oil.
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