The Gadflyer: Fly Trap: How now GOP leaders that Bush is tapping the Strategic Petro Reserve? Thomas F. Schaller (1:52PM) link Hmmm….Failed oilman, supposed free-marketeer and national security-first President George W. Bush is going to start tapping into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Must be because of some national security threat to our pipelines, right? Wrong. Gas prices are high and already-nervous Republicans are getting more nervous that gas prices will.. Read More