This one comes straight from our politics-as-bullshit department:
Clinton’s attacks on oil prices as artificially inflated, Enron-style, keep escalating, and today she appeared to threaten to break up the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
“We’re going to go right at OPEC,” she said. “They can no longer be a cartel, a monopoly that get together once every couple of months” at a hotel in “some plush place in the world” to set prices, she told a crowd a volunteer fire house in Merillville.
Clinton has cast herself as a warrior for working people against the oil industry and malicious “speculators,” and made that — along with her push for a gas tax holiday — central to her closing message in Indiana. It’s a potent message, like the attack on “Wall Street money brokers,” with deep roots in American politics. It’ It’s also very hard to figure out what exactly she means by the threat to break OPEC.
What she means of course, is that she’ll tell voters whatever it takes to get votes. Because, there isn’t anything that she can do about OPEC short of declaring war on the entire Middle East.
