Katrina is becoming the catch all excuse for Gas prices. Little is mentioned of the policy the White House allowed Big Oil to set. A policy that allowed the rape of our wallets.
“Representatives of Enron also had at least six meetings with Cheney and his staff as part of the VP’s secretive Energy Task Force., the last of which occurred just six days before the company revealed it had vastly overstated its earnings, signaling the beginning of the end for the energy giant. These meetings included at least one between Cheney and Lay.
It was at this meeting that Lay handed Cheney a memo that gave the administration its marching orders on how to handle the 2000-2001 California energy crisis — a crisis that we now know was largely rigged by Enron and other energy companies. The crisis cost the state an estimated $45 billion.
Lay’s memo called on the administration to “reject any attempt to re-regulate wholesale power markets by adopting price caps.” Just a few weeks after literally getting the memo from Lay, Cheney said of price caps: “We think that’s a mistake.” Bush followed suit, announcing: “I oppose price caps”. This cozy relationship allowed Enron traders to rip off the people of California with impunity.”
And speaking of ignoring connections, it was this Enron induced “crisis” in California that the public blamed Gray Davis for and thus paved in gold the path for Arnold’s rise.
…to lie his ass off with a smarmy smile for his new boss. Take a look at this list of things he’s said about Bush, pretty tough stuff. So what does it immediately say about his credibility when he will now put on a happy face and do a happy dance when beckoned?
I can see it now, “hey ‘Snowman’, get out there and do the bullshit shuffle”.
“”President Bush will order the Department of Energy to stop filling the Strategic Petroleum Oil Reserve “in order to get more fuel on the market and help reduce rising gasoline prices.”
In September 2000, then-Gov. George W. Bush criticized President Clinton for proposing to use the strategic oil reserve in response to high prices:
“The Strategic Reserve is an insurance policy meant for a sudden disruption of our energy supply or for war. Strategic Reserve should not be used as an attempt to drive down oil prices right before an election. It should not be used for short-term political gain at the cost of long-term national security.”
Today, Bush did precisely what he criticized President Clinton for five-and-a-half years ago.”"
“The Bush administration said explicitly last Friday that a CIA agent was fired for leaking classified information, assumed to be regarding the existence of secret CIA prisons in former Soviet gulags in Eastern Europe.
Today we find out they were just kidding…
…They fired this woman ten days before she was due to retire. Then they lied about why. Sounds to me like this was one more bit of retribution by George Bush against a woman whose expert analysis of the facts didn’t toe the Bush pro-war line…”
As part of his “Speech A Day” program to boost his sagging poll numbers, the President, stumbling and stammering, talked today about renewable energy policy, the thing he knows least of. Here’s a list of things he didn’t touch on:
Once again the blogosphere (in this case Glenn Greenwald) asks the obvious questions while the MSM laps up everything the administration pours as the gospel.
Proof!? We don’t need no stinking proof!
“Not only was Mary McCarthy branded a traitor all weekend — completey with angry protests that she was not yet imprisoned — but anyone associated with her was all but branded a traitor as well. They don’t need to wait for evidence or know any facts. The administration has branded her An Enemy, so now it’s time for the punishment. That is just a microcosm of the same distorted, indescribably undemocratic and plainly un-American dynamic that has guided most of the radical policies of this administration for the last five years.”
Joshua Micah Marshall and E.J. Dionne chime in on why the Republicans will pull out all the stops this coming election.
“As one outside adviser to the administration said, the danger of a Democratic takeover of at least one house of Congress looms large and would carry huge penalties for Bush. The administration fears “investigations of everything” by congressional committees, this adviser said, and the “possibility of a forced withdrawal from Iraq” through legislative action.”
From sabre rattling with Iran to take the attention off of the failures in Iraq, voter fraud, swift boating, and a steady dose of fear, fear, fear, expect it all this coming Fall. Will the press take the bait? I know, stupid question.
Even John Kerry can articulate the Bush team’s hypocritical double standard:
Then drawing a parallel to the Plame case, Kerry said that with McCarthy, “you have somebody being fired from the CIA for allegedly telling the truth, and you have no one fired from the White House for revealing a CIA agent in order to support a lie. That underscores what’s really wrong in Washington, D.C.”
“Tonight on 60 Minutes, Tyler Drumheller, the former chief of the CIA’s Europe division, revealed that in the fall of 2002, President Bush, Vice President Cheney, then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and others were told by CIA Director George Tenet that Iraq’s foreign minister — who agreed to act as a spy for the United States — had reported that Iraq had no active weapons of mass destruction program. Watch it:”
Lovin’ YouTube more and more every day. Did a search for Bunny Wailer, didn’t find any but found this. Sampling music is one thing, sampling music with the accompanying video is another.
Including Bugs Bunny, Devo, Elvis, Ice T, Moby, Tina Turner, The Wailers, Beverly Night, Les McCann, Marylin Monroe, Dennis Chamber.
