if you can believe two different, contradictory things in the same month...

... it must be an election year. When did Bob Woodward's book come out? Just weeks ago, right? Bush got attacked at that time over one of the book's claims, where he supposedly made a pact with the Saudis to drive down oil prices for the 2004 election year. This was based solely on a claim from Prince Bandar, but it was repeated and reported nonetheless.

Well, I guess that's ancient history, because now Bush is being attacked for inaction on oil prices. According to one report now, the Democrats want him to draw from the strategic petroleum reserve.

Normally this would be an occasion to call for increasing domestic production or strengthening conservation efforts, but this being an election year we'll only get band-aids that neither request sacrifice nor solve underlying problems.