Bush will get Energy bill pass now

[spanone]

George & Dick have really been pressing congress to pass their energy bill. Wanna bet that the wimps will pass this one now? Not being a conspiracy theorist, sometimes you just can't help wonder. They bought chimpys WMD/iminent danger/reconstituted uranium/yellow cake lies, they'll buy anything. I can't wait till we privatize energy so Dick can buy it all. Do I sound cynical?

[zekeson]

1. Yes, a tad on the cynical

but can't imagine how you got that way. Previous experience with their rat-bastard (mal)administration?

I see the whole fallout a little differently, as posted (alert -shameless self promotional whoring of a dying and neard dead thread - alert)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=178349
This wouldn't have happened in a responsible administration. The problems with the grid have been known about for some time and events such as an energy task force should have dealth with this very issue.

Clearly, the task force had other things on their collective pea brain, but, of course, as no papers of substance have been released, we can only assume those maps of Iraq wreen't there to fix the grid.

* needs to be hit long and hard on this one. Of course he also needs to be dogged about his performance today (this is a domestic problem..). Hitting * leads to Cheney and when he refuses this time to release his papers he should be removed from office. THIS is the end result of his collusion with folks who do not have the best interest of democracy and the United States in mind.

[RummyTheDummy]

2. Im just curious how long it will take the Repuke scumbags....

To blame the blackout on Clinton. I know it's coming.

[pansypoo53219]

3. i didn't know

that you can get electricity from oil.

what is the universal symbol for sarcasm?

[camero]

4. You need oil

for the turbines. It runs the motors inside.

[VOX]

5. Watch them re-frame their pitch for the bill to exploit this event...

Along the lines of "If we'd had these measures in place, this sorry blackout wouldn't have happened."

More $$$ to corporate Amerika.

[gulliver]

6. This never happened under Clinton.

Case closed. Bush has been in office 2.5 years and Cheney was supposed to be some sort of energy genius. So they didn't see this coming? When does the payoff from Bush/Cheney arrive. So far it's all been loss as far as I can tell.

[leftofthedial]

7. sad, but probably true

they could rape a busload of nuns on prime-time TV and use it to get media censorship laws passed.