Warner Can’t Leave Soon Enough
Written by Sam on July 6th, 2008I’ve been getting increasingly sick of John Warner. He really screwed the pooch when he co-wrote that abominable Lieberman-Warner Climate Change Act that would have bankrupted our economy and threw millions of Americans into the poor house within the next 20 years. Now he wants to bring back a national speed limit.
WASHINGTON — An influential Republican senator suggested Thursday that Congress might want to consider reimposing a national speed limit to save gasoline and possibly ease fuel prices.
Sen. John Warner, R-Va., asked Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman to look into what speed limit would provide optimum gasoline efficiency given current technology. He said he wants to know if the administration might support efforts in Congress to require a lower speed limit.
Congress in 1974 set a national 55 mph speed limit because of energy shortages caused by the Arab oil embargo. The speed limit was repealed in 1995 when crude oil dipped to $17 a barrel and gasoline cost $1.10 a gallon.
The 55MPH speed limit didn’t stop me from driving 80MPH then and it won’t stop me from doing it now if this tard would actually get it reinstated. His idea has already gone over like a ton of bricks with the American people. A 55MPH speed limit is not practical and just like before, everyone will ignore it anyway. All it will do is cost more time and money in enforcement and unnecessary fines.
John Warner has six months left in office. He needs to coast through them and just sit back, relax, and shut his mouth.
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I bet he’ll endorse the Democrat who’s running to replace him. One last middle finger to the right.
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John Warner is a hack. He really embodies what seems to happen to people who are in the Senate too long. I would also note that him and Dick Lugar were the two GOP Senators who broke ranks with the White House of June 2007 so as to support some sort of Democratic surrender plan in Iraq. At the time I believe it was Bill Kristol of the Weekly Standard who said something along the lines of “these are two old Senators, who have not contributed any sort of significant conservative legislation, ever, despite being in the Senate for a half century together”. (note: paraphrase)