Whee – Me!

So now Bushie Boy and his new clone, John McCain, are renewing calls for oil drilling along our nation’s outer continental shelf. The Lamest Duck in recent memory long ago urged that oil companies be allowed to drill in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Reserve, which for the moment at least, is banned by Congress.

Oiled Up And Ready To Go!

It’s a cinch the President couldn’t wait for Americans to get panicky over the price of a gallon of gas so he could re-foist these proposals on us.

How bizarre is it that the Reagan-Bush reich and its cheerleaders, the gang that sprouted boners over war in Iraq and became the dashboard Jesuses of the Hummer set, found it so easy to portray harmless Al Gore as a madman for, among other things, his environmental concerns?

Our obsession with gargantuan phallic vehicles has pretty much throat-slashed the domestic auto industry and turned shady, tyrannical oil sheiks into billionaires. The refusal of Republican lawmakers (and not a few Democrats) to prioritize and adequately fund research into hybrid engines and other alternative fuel concepts has helped keep the petroleum needle in our arms. But, y’know, Al Gore is nuts.