Lynn A. Westmoreland: “I found two more quotes I found interesting: ``House Democrats have a plan to help curb rising gas prices.'' Now, this…”

“I found two more quotes I found interesting: ``House Democrats have a plan to help curb rising gas prices.'' Now, this is Mr. Jim Clyburn from South Carolina who said that on July 6 of 2006. Gas prices in South Carolina are now $2.81. There is another one that says: ``With gasoline and other prices rising, America's middle-class families deserve better . . . Nobody thinks $2.50 a gallon is cheap; it's still expensive.'' Now that came from the Democratic Caucus Chairman Rahm Emanuel on June 2 of 2006. So, evidently, gas prices were around $2.50 then. Now, in Illinois, they are $3.23. So, do you think, being the Truth Squad, that this could just be smoke and mirrors to get people to believe that they had some kind of answer to reduce these gas prices to make Americans make it easier for us to meet our energy needs here within this country, without going to foreign imports? So that seems to be the indication that this is just more smoke and mirrors that the 110th Congress, then the minority, was telling the American public to become the majority. It's kind of like a barking dog behind the fence. As long as that dog is behind the fence, he is going to bark and say and do things to make you think he is going to get out and get something done. But when you open that gate he becomes a little whimpering Chihuahua, does nothing. I think that's what we see in here, a bunch of little Chihuahuas whimpering around.”