House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D., Calif.) and Congressional Democrats rolled into office in 2006 in part because of their promised “common-sense plan” to reduce gasoline prices. The details of the famous plan were never revealed. Yet compared to two years ago, a barrel of crude oil has almost doubled, and gasoline sets a new record high seemingly every day. Nancy Pelosi's congress now has an approval rating of about 22%, or the approval of one out of five U.S. citizens. Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley rolled into office in large part because he promised to stop the BGE rate hike. O'Malley then appointed his own people to the PSC. O'Malley's cronies arrived just in time to pretty much tell the governor that he had it all wrong from the beginning, after which they approved a plan that gave taxpayers nothing. Martin O'Malley now has an approval rating in the 30's, lower than Bob Ehrlich ever achieved during his four year term. Clinton and Obama now too are promising "change". They both promise to fix gas prices, but won't reveal their famous plan for doing so. One could argue that outside of Obama's close ties with a core group of American-haters, and Clinton's seeming inability to tell the truth, there's not an ounce of difference between these two on policy. So the question remains, will Americans fall for the false hope of false promises yet a third time?