Joe Cunningham: “higher fuel prices have some common denominators: diplomatic efforts, foreign policy, support of the military…”

“higher fuel prices have some common denominators: diplomatic efforts, foreign policy, support of the military, environmental extremists. First of all I would ask you to look at Ronald Reagan. Strong diplomacy, strong foreign policy, strong on the military, and a conservationist. Let us go to Jimmy Carter. Look at the long gas lines we had with a weak diplomatic effort, even weaker foreign policy. He destroyed the military, an extremist on the environmental scene. We had long gas lines. Let us look at George Bush, Sr. Remember Desert Storm where we supported OPEC, and what happened to the fuel crisis? Now let us go to the Clinton-Gore administration. Weak foreign policy in China, Kosovo, Sudan, Mexico, and the Spratleys. I take a look at the presidential candidates that we have coming up. Who is going to be strong on the military? Who is going to be strong on foreign policy? Who is going to be strong in a conservationist versus an environmentalist extremist? But the bottom line is, who is hurt from this? Our truckers are having to stall their trucks. People and goods are going up. The folks that you fight for for LIHEAP in the Northeast, the higher costs. But how dare Saudi Arabia, how dare Kuwait and Qatar, after we had men and women die for them. Yet the President has not had a foreign policy. That is what we are asking the President to do. We feel that there has been a weak foreign policy and even weaker support of the military. Our allies laugh at us.”