Ok, I have friends and family. They are, for the most part, delusional. It's weird. They can go about their daily lives, driving cars and possibly engaging in productive work. However, they have a delusion about a certain part of American history known as the 90's.

Yes, apparently, Bill Clinton could and did no wrong. So, I hear delusions being voiced like, "we had peace and prosperity during Clinton," "at least when Clinton lied noone died," or "Clinton was a good president."

Look, as far as I can tell, Clinton was a pretty good republican style president at least with respect to NAFTA and Welfare Reform. Those two items, NAFTA and Welfare Reform are basically his two accomplishments.

Other than that, my liberal friends and family seem to think that Bill got stuff done and made things great through sheer force of personality. As in, ask them why they think we had peace and prosperity during Clinton. The answer will be something along the lines of "well he was smart and gave good speeches and fucked around on his wife." No actual policies, simply, "we liked him."

So, as we near the end of W's 2 terms, the time for navel gazing has begun. Being old enough, I remember when another 2 term president began leaving office, liberals were already writing him into the dustbin of history. Yup, Reagan didn't do too much to remember him by right? Liberal conventional wisdom of the late 80's - wrong.
Similarly, as history proves that liberals' conventional wisdom of the late 90's is also wrong, Uncle Bill is becoming more and more of a caricature of himself. Increasingly unloved by the minions whom he once fondled with impunity.

So, we can look back at Uncle Bill's actual policy choices, policy choices largely ignored by his sluts, er, I mean devoted groupies, who continue to flack for him (or rather, continued, at least until the choice between Obie and Hillary turned the libs away from Bill).

So, how about that price of gas, huh?

That is right, Leno busts on the the Democrat oil strategy. Let's not forget that about 10 years ago, Clinton vetoed drilling in Alaska. So, as the price of oil goes up and drives up the costs of doing business in America, and as the poor and the minorities get hit hardest, thank Uncle Bill, whose incoherent energy policies led to where we are now. No new refineries in 30 years, no new power plants, no new drilling in America. At least with W, you know, he is trying. He lost the Senate and the House because of high gas prices (and gay congressmen). But he would drill, if he could get the laws passed.

Remember, W has to deal with current smug assholes like Chuck Schumer who apparently believes that the oil from OPEC is somehow better than good old American crude. That is, he demands oil from OPEC to lower the cost of gas here, but dismisses the same amount of oil produced by ANWR as being miniscule and unable to affect the price of gas by more than a penny.

quote the ass from NY: "[that drilling in the Arctic Wildlife Refuge would] take ten years and reduce the price of oil by a penny.”
Yeah, if only someone, say the Republican controlled Congress in 1996 had taken a leadership role in getting ANWR online. Nope, Uncle Bill helped this current price spike.