Anybody see a trend here?

by Duckman GR

Bush might have the Axis of Evil to campaign against, we’ve got the Nexus of Corruption. It’s called the GOP.

You start with the public airwaves being abused by a publicly held, albeit closely held, company with a massive campaign contribution to a political candidate, i.e. Sinclair airing Kerry Bashing Movie a week before the election. Of course Sinclair has a vested interest in bush winning, since a bush win keeps michael powell running the FCC, keeps media consolidation viable, which keeps Sinclair viable.

Sinclair also jointly owns a company that just earned a government contract for military applications of fuel cells, (fuel cells bush’s one and only contribution to energy self sufficiency, minimal at best anyway). And of course, Sinclair and cohorts like Contango are gop donors. And the managing partner of Contango is a former Manager of Trader Desks at Enron, and then worked for, yep, the FERC.

Voter fraud? We got that too! Here’s a diary on Dkos that has all kinds of links and commentary on this crap.

State officials in Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada, Ohio, not to mention Florida, purging voter rolls, the RNC funding, to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars, deceiving voters, trashing Democrat registrations, lies, fraud, MyDD has a list here too.

This is too widespread and well funded to be an accident, the workings of seven rogue sold, oh, my bad, a stray gop operative here and there. In the words of someone Rum Drunk with Power, “Democracy can be a little untidy.” They’re just trying to clean it up a little, right?

Lest you think that this is just electioneering whining and dining, no, there’s real money involved. As I filled up my gas tank the last couple of times, I counted. One for me, two for Big Oil. Soaring prices and profits, however, didn't translate to increased investment spending. Exxon said capital expenditures fell by 5.6% to $3.62 billion during the quarter.

What was that bush has been telling us about the tax cuts? They spur what? Reinvestment?

One for me, three more for Oil. ChevronTexaco's downstream income more than doubled to $1.04 billion amid wider refining profit margins, especially in the U.S. West Coast where the company dominates.

Always passing the benefits to the consumer, right?

One for me, three more for Oil. Baxter said oil companies need to make profits while the getting is good to carry them through times of low prices — oil was $10 a barrel a few years ago — and to take energy-exploration risks around the world.

Analysts said oil companies aren't charities, but some faulted the industry for not spending more on finding new sources of oil to meet rising demand.

They really care, don't they?

And the piece de resistance: Halliburton and Dick.

[ed-my bolds throughout]

"EPA produced a final report … that I believe is scientifically unsound and contrary to the purposes of the law," Weston Wilson wrote to lawmakers.

EPA spokeswoman Cynthia Bergman said Wednesday that the agency was reviewing Wilson's statement but did not "believe that any of the concerns raised by his analysis would lead us to a different conclusion."

Cheney declined to be interviewed or to answer specific questions for this story. His spokesman, Kevin Kellems, cited the vice president's commitment to keeping the 2001 energy policy deliberations confidential, a principle Cheney is defending in federal court.

"There is an important principle at stake in protecting the ability of the office of the president and vice president to receive the most candid and direct advice and counsel during the policymaking process," Kellems said.

I think it's called a coverup.

Cheney, who left Halliburton in August 2000 to run for vice president, has said he has severed all ties to the company.
Since he took office in January 2001, Cheney has received $398,548 in deferred compensation, and he will continue to receive annual payments through 2005. He also has 433,333 options to purchase Halliburton stock, according to financial disclosure records filed in May 2004.

But his staff has pointed to an insurance policy that guarantees that the vice president will receive the deferred compensation no matter how Halliburton does — and to his commitment to donate any profits from the stock options to charity.

But which charities? His favorite ones, perhaps, ones that might stipend him after we retire his lyin behind Nov 2?

And they really reviewed the scientific studies with an eye to fairness and objectivity.

The EPA report was reviewed by a seven-person panel: a senior technical advisor at Halliburton, a manager from an industry-funded research institute who previously worked for Halliburton, a senior engineer with BP Amoco and two academics who had worked for the energy industry. A sixth member, a state regulator with an engineering background, also had worked for Amoco. The final member was an expert on hydraulic fracturing from Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico.

"EPA selected panel members who we believed would be unbiased and fair in reviewing this study, and selected a representative group," the EPA's Bergman said.

Halliburton, Halliburton, BP Amoco, Energy Industry, Energy Industry, Amoco, Gov't Funded Scientist. Real unbiased.

They are a regretable bunch of greedy, undemocratic, lying, unprincipled, amoral, unconscionable bastards incapable of shame. Hypocrits who claim Christian values, yet who seem fixated only on the bad parts of the good book. Like O'Lielly, like Bennett, like bush saying he never said what he said then accusing Senator Kerry of exaggerating, like cheney saying he never met Senator Edwards, they are so corrupted by their own lies and greed and projections that they truly defy our human ability to recognize the depth of their wretchedness.

When limbaugh's addictions were first revealed, many lefties expressed hope for his recovery, spoke of positive thoughts for him. Because lefties tend to be more compassionate, however, I was not among them, sorry to say, "fool me once, and The Who" and all. I guess I'm just too cynical, too disgusted by their behaviors, to think that he or any other similarly felled neo-con bushite, would change or become a better person. David Brocks' only come along once in a while.

I'm more in the pitchforks and torches camp.

You don't coddle a cancer, you cut it out, dose it with poisons, kill it, before it kills you. This election is making it abundantly clear to me, that they are a cancer, and they need excising. Having seen Dr. Kerry slice and dice bush, I think he's the Doc for the job.