Hot Air
by Ed Morrissey

Only partly in jest, Jim Cramer has an entertaining meltdown when asked about windfall-profits taxes on energy producers on MS-NBC’s Morning Joe.

Cramer calls domestic production “our last hope” and exhibits his obvious frustration with politicians who demonize producers, specifically Hillary Clinton. The cast elaborately assists him from the set as they go to commercial break.

It’s funny, but it also crystallizes how Americans feel about this subject. They can’t understand why politicians keep attempting to throw even more roadblocks to domestic production at a time when prices have begun to spiral out of control. It shows how powerful a pro-production platform could be in this electoral cycle — and makes us wonder why neither party seems anxious to adopt it.

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