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To: bentway who wrote (168922)	8/13/2005 5:34:01 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Bush has no motive to lower the price of oil as long as it doesn't send the economy into recession ahead of the midterms. His handlers are looking at the price point at which it will do that and we haven't hit it yet. Perhaps the combination of the slowing housing market (houses spending more days on the market even in red hot San Diego) and rising oil prices will finally hit the economy. By that time Bush will have negotiated more production with the Saudis and fewer 'downtimes' with the oil companies...just in time for the midterms. It's a balancing act but the admin can ask favors of Greenspan, most of the corporate media and the Saudi oil tap. He can also start pulling troops out of the Iraq. The point is to leave the Dems with as few talkingpoints as possible by November 2006. The health of the American economy? The health of troops in Iraq? What are they in comparison to the health of the Republican majority in 2006.