Baffles me, too

Thomas Friedman writes today: It baffles me that President Bush would rather go to Saudi Arabia twice in four months and beg the Saudi king for an oil price break than ask the American people to drive 55 miles an hour, buy more fuel-efficient cars or accept a carbon tax or gasoline tax that might actually help free us from what he called our “addiction to oil.”
Baffles me, too.

It's a bit like begging the dealer to give you a break on your heroin. And it makes eying the ANWR look a bit like selling the family silver to support your habit, and throwing our weight around in the Middle East like breaking into the neighborhood drugstore...