Cheney speaks - again and again and again...

How odd that someone who has such obvious contempt for American citizens and who has spent a career working under the "I know more than you do so trust me" mantra - expects anyone to either care what he thinks now or, to listen to his commentary.

He's still a bully and still trying to run the show - or at least make sure controversy around those NOW running the show will distract people from finding answers about the covert administration he basically ran.

It's too late Dick - your slip is already showing...Hussein was to be taken down because he embarrassed "Daddy" Bush...

This is the unfortunate way of government - like tying the ability to carry loaded weapons in national forests to a credit reform bill....the more confused things are, the better politicians like it and the more "reasons" they can front for what they are going to do anyway...

Pitiful....

Leap in U.S. debt hits taxpayers with 12% more red ink

Wake up people...those who voted TWICE for Bush in particular. What a joke that you are NOW making yourselves heard after being asleep for 8+ years.....

It is purposely obtuse to act as if the new president has created all these obligations since January. Even an idiot should know that can not be the case.

But, people who sit by and allow the Patriot Act will no doubt drink the Kool-Aid for a lot of other political shenanigans as well....

No wonder this country is in the shit....and George is back home in Texas trying to figure out what comic books to add to his presidential library...

Oil sharks and paybacks...

Oil company cutbacks may raise gas prices down the road

Very funny..."down the road"

Actually, none of this is funny. The following sentence reveals a lot about the thinking in the oil industry:

"But the oil industry is quietly sowing the seeds for a sharp run-up in gas prices once demand recovers. "

I hope all the uninformed who were chanting, "Drill baby, drill" take note.

What to do now is to make sure there is no recovery in demand. This is the control American consumers rarely take advantage of in time to prevent what we lived through last year. Do it now - exert some control over this out-of-control market.

"We just don't see any reason to accelerate production in a very low-price environment," says Vince White, Devon's senior vice president of investor relations."

They are cutting back exploration and development because they don't think they will make enough money!

These are the same companies who spent millions of dollars lobbying Bush & Co to get them NEW oil leases...now they are doing less with what they already had?

I'm not sure how anyone can not see the blatant greed in this industry.

Permanently destroying our coastlines to benefit companies with this ideology makes no sense to anyone who has any. The self-interest of the industry is clear.

Sweeping Bush under the rug....

Will Obama back 'truth commission' to probe Bush practices?

Bush & Company will never be fully investigated or exposed for their criminal and fraudulent activity. The reason given will be that the nation has too many other problems to solve.

Duh! Bush caused those too didn't he? If you leave a big enough mess behind you, you can be sure those left batting clean-up will have far too much to do to catch all your blunders.

His entire reign of stupidity was planned to work this way - right to the end...

Oil drilling not popular with the "public"...

Once again I read about drilling for oil along the US coastline.

Although there is at least a mention that the new Interior Secretary, Salazar, and the new administration MAY acknowledge it as a "short-sighted move", there is still cause for concern.

In the next paragraph of the article, they discourage me by mentioning that drilling is "popular with the public." Oh really? What public?

Would that be the public that was seen - thanks to the media - singing their Palin "Drill baby, drill", mantra? I hope not. That was apparently the only three-word phase Palin could say and not create some new faux pas. She had nothing else TO say.

I might also remind those currently contemplating this drilling issue that those people mentioned above, LOST THE CAMPAIGN - big time! This is not a sign to ME that the public was enthralled with this message - outside the pretend aura of media coverage.

There are so many reasons why drilling our coasts is an ignorant idea. But one thing easiest to understand is that oil and gas companies already have thousands of acres under "lease" on which they are doing nothing for this country. This is lease and hold and "mine, mine, mine", and now they want more.

They talk about the expense of drilling. I can tell Exxon is not hurting for exploration funds - we filled those coffers last year.

It would be ten years or more before the "public" MAY see oil from leases granted. Ten years. Do you think OPEC and others will not be doing any further price fixing during those ten years? Think again. Exxon and the Bush family will always make their money. This has nothing to do with the price we paid for a gallon of gas last year. Lifting the drill ban had nothing to do with the prices dropping. The ban lift was another Bush ploy - like sending out dollars he didn't have last year to everyone - as if he had the money, and that it did anything to help the economy.

Bush is gone thank God. He's done incredible damage to this country - based on a lot of smoke and mirrors and flat out lies to the American people. I hope the new administration is a little more focused on new solutions to an oil dependency that had me standing in line for gasoline 30 years ago.

Marvin Gaye said, "War is not the answer....."

Neither is oil....