CA-04: McClintock - "China's Drinking Our Milkshake!"

Since he doesn't have any ideas of his own, and he can barely locate California's 4th District on a map, Tom McClintock has decided to pick up on the "Drill Now" movement coming from the deepest bastions of economic royalist and faux populist conservatism. His first ad of the 2008 election is a radio spot which shakes his finger at Congress for ignoring all that delicious oil under everyone's house that must be delivered immediately to Exxon.

"Liberals like Nancy Pelosi and Charlie Brown want to continue supporting federal laws that prevents us from tapping America's vast oil resources. That's how we got into this mess - and why gasoline prices are now breaking our family budgets," McClintock says at the beginning of the one-minute spot.

"America has nearly a trillion barrels of recoverable oil-more than three times that of Saudi Arabia-that Democrats like Nancy Pelosi and Charlie Brown won't even let us touch. In fact, more than 94 percent of our territory remains off-limits because of this foolish prohibition. If we want to change this policy, we've got to change this Congress," McClintock says.

94%! For instance, that park by your house doesn't have ONE oil derrick in it. And who knows what's under the floorboards in your den? 94%, sucka MC's!

Now, McClintock is buying in to the discredited notion that China is stealing all the oil off the Florida coast.

"Meanwhile, the vast oil fields off the coast of Florida that American law prevents Americans from developing are now being drained by the Chinese government drilling in Cuban waters," McClintock wrote in a column for the Auburn Journal, pointed out to us by the campaign of his Dem opponent Charlie Brown.

"And still Nancy Pelosi and her supporters in Congress continue to block the development of these vast American oil reserves."

Don't you idiots see it? The Chinese are stealing our purity of essence and draining our precious bodily fluids!

None of this is true, by the way. Even the Prince of Darkness Dick Cheney, who's in Southern California today in case you were wondering why you heard that death rattle this morning, had to acknowledge that the Cina-Cuba drilling myth was a lie.

But without lies, where would McClintock be? (um, running for the Board of Equalization?)