Goodness I take a mini blog vacation and what do I miss. Bill O’Reilly
actively supporting future terrorist attacks on a major American city. Supreme Court nominee Alito
caught in a bold faced lie about his abortion views. Bob Woodward
destroys any shred of credibility he has ever had.
Then there was the pathetic display of Senator Ted Stevens from Alaska. The man who is proudly one of Big Oil’s bitches, and most recently made famous for the Bridge to Nowhere, the half a billion dollar Alaskan bridge that connects to a island with a population of 50. He snuck it into a transportation bill at the last minute as an example of pure pork. When some Democrats wanted to cancel that useless piece of legislation and instead use the money to rebuild New Orleans, with a much higher population than 50, it was voted down. After all, it’s the poor blacks in new Orleans own fault
the oil companies puppet chimed in.
When Energy Committee Chairman Ted Stevens announced that he would not require the executives to give their testimony under oath, Senator Maria Cantwell asked for a vote on the issue. Stevens shot back: “There will be no vote . . . It’s the decision of the chairman, and I have made that decision.” “I move that we swear in witnesses,” Cantwell persisted. “I second the motion,” said Senator Barbara Boxer.“That’s the last we’re going to hear about that, because it’s out of order,” a piqued Stevens replied. When the two women continued their protest, the chairman informed them that “I intend to be respectful of the position that these gentlemen hold.” Stevens did not fail in this goal. When Boxer later displayed a large chart showing the executives’ pay, Stevens cut her off. “We’ll stop the clock right here for you, Senator,” Stevens said, ordering the chart taken down because it was not “information that pertains to our issue.” From the audience, a woman called out: “How about the consumers?” When the same woman later let out a cheer, Stevens threatened to “clear the room.”Our government at work. Nice isn’t it? It’s too bad too because during the hearings the Oil executives
lied through their teeth.
A White House document shows that executives from big oil companies met with Vice President Cheney's energy task force in 2001 -- something long suspected by environmentalists but denied as recently as last week by industry officials testifying before Congress.
The document, obtained this week by The Washington Post, shows that officials from Exxon Mobil Corp., Conoco (before its merger with Phillips), Shell Oil Co. and BP America Inc. met in the White House complex with the Cheney aides who were developing a national energy policy, parts of which became law and parts of which are still being debated.
In a joint hearing last week of the Senate Energy and Commerce committees, the chief executives of Exxon Mobil Corp., Chevron Corp. and ConocoPhillips said their firms did not participate in the 2001 task force. The president of Shell Oil said his company did not participate "to my knowledge," and the chief of BP America Inc. said he did not know.
Eh, who cares, perjury commited by conservatives
isn't a big deal anyway.