WTF Is It Now?!?

"Hmmmm...the Bahamas have got to be around here somewhere..."



YEAH, AND YOU CAN CELEBRATE WITH A NICE JUICY STEAK
Yesterday the Yellow Puddle of Texas "expressed confidence" that Dick 'dick' Cheney would be exonerated by the SEC investigation into the shifty accounting practices at Big-time's Halliburton.

Others are also confident that the VP will be exonerated, but that is largely because it is run by a Bush appointee, Harvey Pitt, who has already been criticised for his lax approach towards corporate fraud and his allegedly improper contacts with investigative targets. "The president caused a problem today by wading into the case," said a Democratic party spokeswoman, Jennifer Palmieri. "Before his comments, the notion that Harvey Pitt was going to conduct an impartial investigation was thin, and I think that the president's comments raise more concerns about the SEC's ability to be objective."

There is a sense in Washington that though there may well have been improprieties in Mr Bush's dealings, these could be very small beer compared with the goings-on at Halliburton. - From The Guardian.


WHY DO THEY HATE AMERICA?
Americans think that Napoleon Bonehead and his administration are too heavily influenced by big business, the New York Times reported today. The 1,000 respondents also judge the economy to be in its worst shape since 1994, according to the Times/CBS News Poll.

By a two to one margin, poll respondents said the administration was more interested in protecting the interests of large companies than those of ordinary Americans, the paper said. That concern was expressed by more than a third of Republicans and an overwhelming majority of Democrats.

Asked whether Bunnypants was telling the truth about his dealings at Harken Energy, an oil company where he was a director and consultant from 1986 to 1993, 48 percent of those surveyed said that they believed he was hiding something, the paper reported. Only seventeen percent said they believed that the Crook of Crawford was telling the entire truth. - From Yahoo News.


OOOOH, SHINY....
"We were buying political influence. That was it. He was not much of a businessman." - Harken owner George Soros, on hiring Bush as a director even though his previous oil bidnizzes had collapsed.

"It's awfully tough to be Mr. Corporate Responsibility after you have profited from the actions of an irresponsible corporation that engaged in a shady deal. George W. Bush is finding that out, for as he tries desperately to stay ahead of the assorted corporate scandals, his own past as a failed oil man has emerged as an issue for reporters, columnists, and the cable-news crowd." - Read more of David Corn here.