Conservatives and
conservative commentators seem to be focused on the hypocrisy of this Democratic administration, comparing the situation to Bush's attacking Iraq on moral grounds.
Not exact matches
But some
conservative commentators, after narrating all the outrageous anecdotes,
seem baffled for a positive program of cultural education, and others even
seem positively anticultural — as though willing to admit that the ideologies of the secularists are what constitute the humanities.
Given that
conservative commentators, notably Charles Krauthammer, have called for a gas tax (revenue neutral in his case), it would
seem this is feasible, given a scenario like the one you outline.