September 3, 2008
The Facts
On his way out the door for a tour in Louisiana in the wake of hurricane Gustav, President Bush said “When Congress comes back, they’ve got to understand that we need more domestic energy, not less. One place to find it is offshore America, lands that have been taken off the books, so to speak, by congressional law”. Press Secretary Dana Perion said “The president wasn’t trying to be overly political; he was stating a fact”.
My View
I’ve lost count of the times I’ve said Bush uses every opportunity to stump for “more oil drilling” no matter what issue he’s addressing. Now he’s using the hurricane disaster in Louisiana to push his “big business” agenda. If there’s anyone out there who still doubt that Bush has absolutely no sympathy or concern for the working class people of our country, this should convince them. With these most recent statements, there certainly isn’t any doubt what his top priority is. There is only two things Bush hasn’t been able to achieve in his eight years that he wanted done before he ever came into office; zero taxes for corporations and unlimited drilling for the oil companies. And here he has shown us all he will stop at nothing to achieve the latter.
Sonic Charmer
// Sep 3, 2008 at 5:38 AM
Now he’s using the hurricane disaster in Louisiana to push his “big business” agenda. </i.
Why do you call a policy of allowing more oil retrieval a “big business agenda”? You speak of oil drilling as if it’s something that only benefits “the oil companies”.
Is the current state of affairs – high gas prices, which makes everything else more expensive too – good for the ‘working class people’? Would increasing oil supply be bad for ‘working class people’? If so how?
Old-Man
// Sep 3, 2008 at 9:10 AM
Sonic Charmer, obviously you completely missed the point. What has politicking got to do with helping those people who were devastated by hurricane Gustav? I imagine if you lived down here and had lost everything you had in the storm, the last thing you’d be interested in is hearing Bush or anyone else talk about opening up more area for drilling oil.