More Bushit from the Master

Last night, to thunderous applause of those we elect to represent us, the Obfuscator in Chief made an announcement that sounded like he was going to repent his oily past and do something good for the U. S. With great aplomb, he announced he was going to cut imports of middle eastern oil by 75%!!!!!! If our elected representatives are so easily fooled, I think we need to start getting them from a different source.

Republican Washington is great with numbers. They can make an 80-20 split in the distribution of bribes to congressmen into a bipartisan problem, they can make twenty percent of Iraqis who favor our continued occupation of their country into millions. Bush did the same with energy policy last night by proposing, in actuality, nothing. Here's the math.

We get about half of our oil from abroad. Of that half, five percent comes from the Middle East. Yes, five percent. We get the majority of our imported oil from Mexico, Venezuela and Canada. Five percent of fifty percent is two and a half percent. Now take seventy-five percent of that, the amount of our imports from troubled areas of the globe we import and you get a net reduction of our oil consumption under the President's Bombastic New Plan!!!! of less than two percent. The Shrub has proposed an ambitious goal!!!! that we can reach by replacing incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescents. Or by drilling in ANWAR which, strangely enough, should provide about two percent of our energy needs at the same time the President proposes to reach his lofty goal!!!!.

This is the pattern of Republican Washington. The best lies are very nearly true and the Republican lies as epitomized by the Shrub are very nearly perfect. The only thing left out of the bombastic announcement last night was the fact that we get a very small portion of our oil from the Middle East, a majority of that from Saudi Arabia, at least nominally our ally. So, again, Bush continues his policy of misleading and misdirecting, his oil buddies don't suffer at all under such nonsense as carbon emission reduction or conservation and the reason-to-believers have another thing to point to their president and say, look what he's doing.

Nixon had a twenty-five percent approval rating when he left office. The Shrub is only fifteen points higher. Could it be that more of us are starting to see through the bushit?