Wednesday, April 19, 2006
My representative in the United States Senate, Charles Schumer, is a dirty asshole
Great! Awesome! New York Senator Charles Schumer is showing imagination and initiative:
Senator calls for gasoline price fix probe as prices soar.
New York Senator Charles Schumer, speaking in front of a Hess station in Manhattan, called Tuesday for a federal investigation to see if oil companies and refiners are deliberately withholding gasoline production, taking advantage of the normal switch from winter gas to summer gas in an attempt to bid up prices.
"The bottom line is they are producing at 85 percent capacity when they should be producing over 90 percent," said Schumer. "Are they scaling back production? Only by subpoenaing the companies and looking in their books will we get that answer."
I'm sure the aide who put him in front of the Hess station will be promoted.
As each passing day reveals a new level of personal involvement on the part of Bush and Cheney in the effort to destroy Valerie Plame's counter-proliferation work at the CIA, and exposes still more of their pre-war statements as criminally prosecutable lies, I begin to wonder whether it's really a "canny political strategy" to keep on trying to "seize the economic high ground" by attempting to change the "subject" and to remind "Americans" that Bush-Cheney policies are "hitting" them where it "hurts"--their proverbial pocketbooks. Hey, "it's the economy, stupid!" Right? Brilliant.
Given that it would be "politically unfeasible" to protest the preparations for the upcoming national suicide-bombing of Iran, couldn't Charles Schumer at least make some hay out of the daily revelations of Bush and Cheney's spectacular mendacity and incompetence?
Charles Schumer is trying to shit after the toilet draining our "national discourse" has already flushed.
posted by speakingcorpse : 4/19/2006 07:53:00 AM
Senator calls for gasoline price fix probe as prices soar.
New York Senator Charles Schumer, speaking in front of a Hess station in Manhattan, called Tuesday for a federal investigation to see if oil companies and refiners are deliberately withholding gasoline production, taking advantage of the normal switch from winter gas to summer gas in an attempt to bid up prices.
"The bottom line is they are producing at 85 percent capacity when they should be producing over 90 percent," said Schumer. "Are they scaling back production? Only by subpoenaing the companies and looking in their books will we get that answer."
I'm sure the aide who put him in front of the Hess station will be promoted.
As each passing day reveals a new level of personal involvement on the part of Bush and Cheney in the effort to destroy Valerie Plame's counter-proliferation work at the CIA, and exposes still more of their pre-war statements as criminally prosecutable lies, I begin to wonder whether it's really a "canny political strategy" to keep on trying to "seize the economic high ground" by attempting to change the "subject" and to remind "Americans" that Bush-Cheney policies are "hitting" them where it "hurts"--their proverbial pocketbooks. Hey, "it's the economy, stupid!" Right? Brilliant.
Given that it would be "politically unfeasible" to protest the preparations for the upcoming national suicide-bombing of Iran, couldn't Charles Schumer at least make some hay out of the daily revelations of Bush and Cheney's spectacular mendacity and incompetence?
Charles Schumer is trying to shit after the toilet draining our "national discourse" has already flushed.
posted by speakingcorpse : 4/19/2006 07:53:00 AM
