Pumps draw petroleum from oil wells before dawn as the cost of crude oil tops $104 per barrel in its surge to new record high prices March 6, 2008 in Signal Hill, California. (PHOTO CREDIT: GETTY IMAGES)  Click on the play button to see what Jack and our viewers had to say.

FROM CNN’s Jack Cafferty:

Vice President Dick Cheney is on his way to the Middle East to do something about skyrocketing oil prices. We’ll pause here to give you a chance to stop laughing. Cheney will meet with the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Oman and Turkey. The White House says it wants OPEC to increase production.

This is the same Dick Cheney who was chairman and CEO of Halliburton before becoming vice president. The same Dick Cheney who headed up the administration’s highly secretive energy task force. The administration’s energy policy, such as it is, was crafted with the help of oil industry executives and lobbyists including former Enron Chairman Ken Lay. These meetings were held behind closed doors and the records from them remain secret to this day.

Here is what has happened since Cheney’s secret energy meetings: When George Bush was sworn in as president in January, 2001, a gallon of gas cost $1.47 and a barrel of crude oil cost $30. Today gasoline costs an average of $3.22 and many experts are predicting it will hit $4 this spring. This morning, the price of a barrel of crude oil nearly hit $110.

And, while ordinary Americans suffer with increasingly crippling energy costs, the oil companies continue to rake in record profits. Exxon Mobil earned more than $40 billion last year. Oh, and they all get tax breaks, too, courtesy of your friends at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Here’s my question to you: Is Vice President Dick Cheney the right person to go to the Middle East to try to bring down skyrocketing oil prices?

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FROM CNN’s Jack Cafferty:

It’s time for Congress to impeach President Bush and Vice President Cheney.

So says George McGovern, the Democratic Party’s 1972 candidate for president.

In an editorial in yesterday’s Washington Post, McGovern writes that although the chances of impeachment are unlikely, the facts most definitely point in that direction: “Bush and Cheney are clearly guilty of numerous impeachable offenses. They have repeatedly violated the Constitution. They have transgressed national and international law. They have lied to the American people time after time. Their conduct and their barbaric policies have reduced our beloved country to a historic low in the eyes of people around the world. These are truly ‘high crimes and misdemeanors,’ to use the constitutional standard.”

McGovern points to specific instances, like Iraq, which he calls a “murderous, illegal, nonsensical war”; the administration’s strategy to encourage a climate of fear; denying prisoners of war habeas corpus and shipping them off to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and other countries; and the administration’s dismal response to Hurricane Katrina.

In fact, McGovern insists that the case against impeaching the current president and vice president is far stronger than was the case against President Nixon. He goes so far as to say the U.S. would be “much more secure and productive” under a Nixon presidency than what we have today.

But, as we all know, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi long ago took impeachment “off the table”. And, even though there are some in the House who are calling for an immediate start to hearings, don’t hold your breath.

Here’s my question to you: Why won’t Congress impeach President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney?

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