Bravo to the Senate Republicans for blocking the windfall profits tax on oil companies

I was working out at the gym and Fox News Channel was on one of the TVs and I saw that the Republicans in the Senate blocked the Democrat effort to get a windfall profits tax on oil companies levied (story here). Bravo to the Senate Republicans! Are the Democrats actually so oblivious that they don't realize that passing such a tax would only increase gasoline prices further? Can they really be that naive? On FNC, they were interviewing the corrupt Democrat senator from New Jersey (that really all goes without saying, ever since Bill Bradley, every Democrat senator from New Jersey has been corrupt) Robert Menendez. That guy actually had the gall to say "oh no! the oil companies wouldn't pass along the costs of a windfall profits to the consumer." The guy is either a moron or incredibly dishonest. My suspicion is that he is both.