Phony conservatism...

From Reuters:

In the latest sign of Republican worry about high energy prices, the head of the Senate Finance Committee said on Tuesday he wants large oil companies to donate 10 percent of their record profits to help poor Americans pay winter heating bills.

Republicans are growing increasingly concerned about oil profits triggering a consumer backlash when winter heating bills start to arrive in the next few weeks. The government forecasts natural gas costs in the U.S. Midwest will soar by 61 percent while heating oil in the Northeast jumps nearly 30 percent this winter.

Charles Grassley, an Iowa Republican and chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said he sent a letter to oil companies to "embarrass" them into contributing to the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP).

Voting for people like Charles Grassley is supposed to be "the lesser of two evils"?? Who is he running against, Joseph Stalin?

Big government Republicans