Oil Companies Attack Legislation Designed To Cut Back Tax Incentives

    You knew that this one was coming because the last thing that the oil companies want is to have to pay all of the money that the Bush Crime Family has let them slip into their coffers.

   Money such as the $7 billion or so that they have screwed the tax payer out of with their leases  allowing them to pump billions of dollars worth of oil and gas from publicly owned waters without paying royalties to the government.

    Here is the oil companies argument against changing the leases, which are flawed.

    The New York Times

“This bill takes capital from U.S. oil and natural gas companies that otherwise would be spent on domestic energy exploration,” said Barry Russell, president of the Independent Petroleum Association of America, which represents about 5,000 smaller oil and gas producers. “If the goal is to lessen our dependence on foreign oil, then this bill falls far short.”    Entire Article

                                   * * * *

   As if the oil companies are seriously looking for alternative sources of energy!

 

Democrats and Republicans Argue over Iraq Escalation

    A day after George Bush's speech was knocked to the ground by criticism from both Democrats and Republicans,Sen. John McCain ( bio, voting record), R-AZ., said that he supports Bush's plan. WOW! I am so surprised by that!

    From the Associated Press:

By ANNE FLAHERTY   January 13,2007

McCain said those advocating the start of a troop withdrawal, which includes many Democrats, "have a responsibility to tell us what they believe are the consequences of withdrawal in Iraq. If we walk away from Iraq, we'll be back, possibly in the context of a wider war in the world's most volatile region."

Rep. John Murtha (news, bio, voting record), a Pennsylvania Democrat who oversees military funding, said he will propose tying congressional approval of war funds to shutting the Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba. Other conditions he said he is considering include not extending troop deployments and giving soldiers and Marines more time to train between deployments.    Entire Article from AP

                                     * * * *

    Bush did an interview on CBS  "60 Minutes" which will air on Sunday in which," Asked if he believes he has the authority to send additional troops to Iraq no matter what Congress wants to do, Bush said: "I think I've got — in this situation, I do, yeah. And I fully understand they will ... they could try to stop me from doing it, but, uh, I've made my decision and we're going forward."

    My fellow Americans, it would seem as if our going to the polls in November and doing a 'changing of the guard' has not had any affect on our 'enlightened' leader. Not only is this incompetent fool ignoring the members of the House and the Senate, but more importantly, he is disregarding you and I, the voters!

    The American citizens of this country pay this bag of shit $400,000 a year to represent and to work for us. The president is supposed to look out for the publics best interest, not Halliburton's, or Exxon's!

    For Bush to willfully ignore and to disregard our views and stated position on the war in Iraq and stem cell research should be grounds for impeachment in its own right.               Michael d

 

Technorati tags: Democrats, Republicans, Iraq, Escalation