Five Quick Things: Quid Pro Joe Needs Impeaching
Plus: OPEC embarrassment, Fetterman’s fumbles, sticking it to the Yalies, and more.
by Scott McKay
October 13, 2022, 10:40 PM
We haven’t had a 5QT around here for a while, so let’s knock this out and get your weekend started.
1. Quid Pro Joe’s gotta goThere has been some debate back and forth about whether the Republican majority-to-be in the House of Representatives ought to move toward impeaching Joe Biden after Kevin McCarthy wrests the Speaker’s gavel out of Nancy Pelosi’s vodka-soaked fingers in the first week of January. This column has taken the position that while a Biden impeachment is a debatable thing, the bills on the Biden cabinet shouldn’t be up for debate; every one of them ought to be filed and acted upon no later than Jan. 10.
But with this almost-unfathomable business of Biden’s failing attempts to jawbone the Saudis and the rest of OPEC to boost, or at least maintain, oil production through the midterm elections, he’s got to get a healthy serving of Peach Mints, too.
Good God, this is amazing.
You already know Biden has done everything he could do to hamstring domestic energy production. You already know that by restricting domestic supply he’s had gas prices shoot skyward for most of his time in office. And you know that his efforts to combat that have included begging all of America’s enemies who have oil to make more of it and sell it to us rather than to restart our own production, not to mention draining out and selling off a giant quantity of our Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), which is in place to serve our military in the case of a war (like the one Team Biden is busily attempting to escalate in Ukraine).
But the OPEC cartel rebuffed Biden, embarrassingly, and said they’d cut production rather than raise it. Gas prices went further skyward, even with Biden dumping out more of the SPR.
Now you’re caught up to this week, when it comes out that Biden then went begging and cajoling to the Saudis, whom he’d called a pariah regime, that if they were going to cut production they at least shouldn’t do it until after the midterms.
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