Oil's well

Bush, Cheney and McCain are big on the private sector. They want the government to get the hell out of your way so that you can get rich. Understandably, they are sickened by the sight of pin headed guideline writing bureaucrats who stand in the way of progress and energy independence. The Bush/McCain third term team wants people with industry experience dealing with the complex issues of oil extraction from public lands. You can’t have career morons running around demanding that every `I’ is dotted and `T’ crossed in these oil leases. How could you ever get that stuff pumped out of the ground that way?

So, Bush, Cheney and McCain carefully plugged in outside oil experts into the U.S. Department of the Interior to assure the smooth running of the drilling for oil on public lands. It looks like that oil industry is a wee bit less prudish than the values folks who think they’re running things and when they applied industry standard practices to the program, the mainstream media got outraged at the behavior of the political appointees. Damn that media with its Calvinist guilt and phony outrage.

It seems the media didn’t particularly like those appointees taking sexual favors and big nights out on the town to smooth and hurry the bringing of that goo to market. It’s all the media’s fault. They pick up on some stupid Department of Interior report that blows the whistle on these outside energy experts and trumpet it like they’d done the research themselves.

It’s easy for me to see where these outsiders went wrong. They had no clue that the pin heads riding those desks in interior were human. They had no idea that they wouldn’t approve of the pols having all the fun and might ultimately spill the beans on ‘em.

Oh well, when John McCain takes over for George W. Bush as a third term reward for this type of efficient behavior, he’ll have a chance to put a lot more randy roustabouts in charge over at Interior when they open up all those millions of square miles of offshore leases to the oil companies. Man, can you see the parties then?

Hair shirt, John, is big on anti-corruption and maybe if you’re a party type he’ll get you a job at Interior and you just might get rich – or at least a little happier. I know that all you readers are rich, so consider a public sector job at Interior for the next four years. Not everyone at Halliburton is willing to take a cut in pay, so there’ll be lots of openings. Think about it.

For you few who are trying to hang in where you live and are more than a little worried about where these clowns have taken us and where they’re going , maybe you’ll join me in voting for Obama.

It’s not that I’m better than those industry types, I’m just too damn old to party that hard.