Hastert ditches fuel-efficient car for SUV after fuel speech

[BlueAwards]

Sorry if this has been posted before...

FROM DAILYKOS

by AnthonySF
Fri Apr 28, 2006 at 08:18:22 AM PDT
Set your hypocrisy meters to 10, possibly 11.

Just minutes after giving a speech yesterday about the horrendously high gas prices that "average" Americans have to pay -- you know, all that B.S. about bribing voters to go GOP with $100 rebates...with ANWR drilling tacked on, of course -- Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert drove off in an energy-efficient hydrogen car.

But once he was around the corner and, theoretically, out of the sight of photographers, he screeched to a halt, got out, and jumped in his gas-guzzling SUV to finish the trip to the Capitol.

This is not some anti-SUV rant or anything, but it's a perfect example of the "do as I say, not as I do" and "it's okay if you're a Republican" ethos of these crooks in Washington.

C'mon! This this picture should be plastered on every billboard in America as an example of the non-commitment Republicans are making to the energy crisis.

[babylonsister]

1. From Apr. 28th; happened awhile ago. nt

[Hardrada]

2. Temporal cop!!

[Javaman]

3. The look on his face is: "when is this going to stop!"

Big fat ass wind bag.

[Stinky The Clown]

4. In that second picture, he looks like an

aged, overwieght, frail zoo gorilla ...... all hunched over.

(by the way, this stunt of his was reported here the day it happened ... a week ago? Two weeks?)

[Freedom_Aflaim]

5. How far did he have to go to the capital?

My only pause is that if the trip is a long one, the Hydromobile may not be able to make it (lack of hydrogen stations etc)

Still doesnt excuse him from driving an suv though.

[jrw14125]

6. It bears repeating. You think the RW noise machine...

would EVER let something go? They're still talking Chappaquiddick 30 years later!

Still talking about Clinton.

And Carter.

And Howard Dean's "scream."

And, lest we never forget, "that dark day of september the 11th, 2000 and 1"...