Reply #37: Donning a very speculative hat....

[petgoat]

What if "Peak Oil" is for real? Then surely Cheney and the oil mafia
know all about it. They envision economic and social chaos. Even
agriculture, which uses massive amounts of energy, will be affected.

Maybe the Pukes are planning ahead for what comes in fifteen or twenty
years. Tax cuts are to allow the upper crust to prepare to withdraw
into their gated, defensible communities.

Invading Iraq (and deliberately fomenting chaos there) is to control
the oil reserves.

The Dems' quiescence, too, is explained by this. They agree these
things need to be done but they aren't willing to openly betray their
principles to do it. Instead they stand by and let a regime of rogue
Republicans take responsibility for the dirty deeds.

Something like half the House co-sponsored Rush Holt's bill that would
have outlawed unauditable voting machines. But how many
Congresspeople did you hear screaming about it when Bob Ney sat on the
bill in his House Administrative Committee, or when the Election
Assistance Commission was sabotaged through inadequate funding? How
many Congresspeople are speaking out about obvious media suppression?

The Bush regime could not do what it does without the complicity of
the Democrats. Geez, I turn my back for twenty years and look what
happens!