giving you the rope to hang yourselves with. $200 a barrel? That's Dick Cheney's wet dream, and America knows it. It knows that this particular gaggle of GOP reprobates are oil industry sock-puppets who are doing their damnedest to hold the nation's legs open with their oil industry sponsors have their way with her.

Trying to throw this on to the Democrats, while typical of accountability-shy Republicans, is a non-starter.

Son, that dog just won't hunt.