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White House spokesman Tony Snow addressed the issue Monday, telling reporters that "the one thing I have been amused by is the attempt by some people to say that the president has been rigging gas prices, which would give him the kind of magisterial clout unknown to any other human being."
-- Brad Foss for The Associated Press
Gas prices had suddenly dropped a dollar, and the waggish media has been abuzz with delicious conspiracy stories. The intellectually and philosophically sophisticated among us generally like to eschew conspiracy theories, but I don't know. There are only so many hands on the oil tiller, and Republican fortunes had been looking dramatically downcast. I can see it. Cheney places the call, perhaps going through Halliburton and friends, "Do you really want to see Republicans lose the House, and possibly the Senate? Who loves ya, baby?"
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White House spokesman Tony Snow addressed the issue Monday, telling reporters that "the one thing I have been amused by is the attempt by some people to say that the president has been rigging gas prices, which would give him the kind of magisterial clout unknown to any other human being."
-- Brad Foss for The Associated Press
Gas prices had suddenly dropped a dollar, and the waggish media has been abuzz with delicious conspiracy stories. The intellectually and philosophically sophisticated among us generally like to eschew conspiracy theories, but I don't know. There are only so many hands on the oil tiller, and Republican fortunes had been looking dramatically downcast. I can see it. Cheney places the call, perhaps going through Halliburton and friends, "Do you really want to see Republicans lose the House, and possibly the Senate? Who loves ya, baby?"
