Monday Reading

Caught on tape, an offer of meetings with key bush admin people in exchange for cash for the Bush Library. It will be interesting to see if we get a peek at the logbooks.


Relief is in sight! Unveiling a bold plan to deal with high gas prices, George Bush has removed the ban on offshore drilling, and urged more drilling in Alaska, ANWR. Since the offshore ban by executive order #42 put in place is gone now, the only thing standing between the consumer and the offshore oil is Democrats not removing the congressional ban. Bush blames the problem on democrats in congress, for not having already removed the ban, one that has been in place for decades. Bush says it must be done now because of high gas prices. Don't believe the people who tell you there is no short term fix. Seeing as it would take close to a decade to get significant output, the time to have overturned it if there was one was close to a decade ago, or sometime during that 12 years republicans had congress. I think Bush was in the White House for a few of those years, maybe. As Bush said, there's a chance there could be as much as 10 years of oil production offshore. Add that up with the shale and the Alaskan oil he mentions and we can go another 30 or 40 years till we get back to where we are today importing oil, at which time the Middle Eastern reserves will have a bit less after a few decades of the rest of the world's consumption especially growing India and China. Nothing says presidential leadership like punting the ball a few decades down.


Obama writes intelligently for the NYT about Iraq. McCain is showing signs of Alzheimer's, I gave them some funny names.
#1-Czech yourself
#2-It's all muslim to me
#3-Green Bay Packers
#4-Disgraceful ignorance
#5-Phil McCracken
#6-Not a geography major(Or an Econ major)
#7-Cease paying attention
#8-General Confuse Us?

The ICC has for the first time charged a sitting leader with war crimes, Sudan's President. Will Bush get a turn in the future? One retired General thinks so.