The Energy President

Seriously: The Energy President. That's how they billed his candidacy. The first Harvard MBA business executive, coming to execute some brass-tacks business and get this country moving again!

But the price of everything is about double what it was under Clinton. The Obscene Surplus under Clinton's fiscal authority has become nearly $8,000,000,000,000 in Obscene Deficit. The military hawk has failed for almost an entire term to complete a mission in Iraq, and persists in failing to capture or kill Osama bin Laden. And oil now trades at $70 a barrel- it was around $20 for most of my life. An Enronergy Bill got passed: overspent Bush's goal, failed to change anything but the rules for building a nuclear reactor (=stationary BOMB), rewarded the oil industry with an extra $1,000,000,000 in gifts to help them find oil so they can continue to rake in record margins. And I bet that since no one at Enron went to jail, they're right now trading petroleum futures. After they and Anderson bankrolled Bush's 2000 campaign.

And he's a war hawk. Real Defense type. Except his typical failure in the national security arena has spread to our energy security by doing nothing to protect the ports or pipelines.

And now that the hurricane has landed, and the president has no one to blame for it, expect the GOP appointees at the turnstiles to start spending money to make the problem prettier. Lipstick on a Pig.

So when will Cheney have the Obscene Hubris to sell us out again to Halliburton with a no-bid rebuilding contract?