WTF Is It Now?!?

Dick stiffed energy probe
Dick 'Chicanery' Cheney refused to turn over key documents involving energy cronies, campaign contributors.

"The White House collaborated heavily with corporations in developing President Bush's energy policy but repeatedly refused to give congressional investigators details of the meetings."

The General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress, said it was impossible to tell how much energy companies or industry groups may have influenced the task force's 2001 report because the administration withheld important records.

"This report is a sad chronicle of the efforts of the office of the vice president to hide its activities from the American people," said Michigan Rep. John Dingell, the senior Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

The task force issued a report to Smarmy McOilfield in May, 2001. The administration announced an energy policy shortly afterward, calling for more oil and gas drilling and a revival of nuclear power. The policy bogged down in Congress.

Judicial Watch and the Sierra Club are pursuing a separate legal battle for the energy records. A federal appeals court panel ruled last month that the groups could be entitled to documents from Cheney's staff. The unscrupulous neonazis in the Justice Department has asked the full appeals court to review the ruling, or else. - - WaComPo.


Under fire, Bunnypants to address doubts on Iraq

"America has taken a country that was not a terrorist threat and turned it into one." - Harvard lecturer and former national security official Jessica Stern.

Blazing Hellhole, Texas (Reuters) -Mendacious smackhead Smirky McAWOL will take a break from his golf game on Tuesday to bolster support for his policies in Iraq amid a mounting U.S. death toll and public doubts.

The vacuous liar, who is in the last week of a month-long August vacation at his Texas flea-pit, will travel to St. Louis to make the case for sustained involvement in Iraq despite calls to either pull out or reinforce U.S. forces, and for continued engagement in the Middle East despite new violence that has stalled the peace process.

The Empty Flight-Suit-in-Chief was not expected to announce any new policies. Nor was he expected to show any new willingness to expand U.N. authority in Iraq, a move demanded by Security Council members France, Germany and Russia as a condition for a new mandate to expand recruiting of more foreign forces to support the U.S. occupation, officials said.

He is expected, however, to loll about on a podium in front of a backdrop and spout the usual inanities and bromides, such as "they hate freedom" and "the Amurkin people are patient," with a smirk on his insufferable, vapid phiz.

Fun facts: Estimate for maintaining electricity in Iraq = $2 billion. Estimates for repairing and improving the oil facilities = $5 to $10 billion. Estimates for repairing and upgrading infrastructure = $16 to $30 billion. The US is currently providing 95% of total aid, 90% of the troops, and suffering 90% of the casualties (Newsweek, 9/1/03 edition).


Muscling in on the competition
Repug candidate/chunkhead Arnold Schwarzenegger launched his first attack on Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante on Monday, and specifically urged other GOP candidates to drop out of the race because it would be bettuh for the pahty.

"It is something they have to decide for themselves," he said. "It would definitely be better for the party and it would be a better chance to win because those votes would come to me and they would help."

Quoting from a description a Republican consultant gave to a newspaper, Schwarzenegger said the lieutenant governor is "Gray Davis with a receding hairline and a moustache." - - link.

Reads a script pretty well, does Arnold.

Fellow pubes Ueberroth and McClintock have thus far refused to withdraw from the race, which only means they're waiting for a better offer from Karl Rove.

Fun fact: ARNOLD AHEAD IN TACO POLL! screams the lead headline at drudge right now.