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Old 08-28-2008
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Re: Democrats Adjourn Congress, Republicans Stay and Work

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Originally Posted by chrisl View Post
In a nutshell, the Republicans want high gas prices.

That is why they refused to do anything about it and spent the last 10 years pushing policies to make it happen.

In reality, they are saying "Let them eat cake!" The free market is alive and well, and giving our friendly oil company donors resounding profits.
So the republicans want high gas prices, they refused to do anything about high gas prices and spent the last 10 years pushing policies to make sure we get high gas prices.

BUT, in reality the free market is alive and giving oil companies resounding profits. So, which is it? You just said it was republicans restricting the market AND the free market causing high gas prices.
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