TEAMWORK: MISSION ACCOMPLISHED AFTER ALL

Everyone is always talking about what a lifelong failure Bush has always been, messing up just about everything he's ever touched. OK, fair enough, fair enough. But yesterday Jerome at Daily Kos pointed out how Bush was able to team up with Osama bin-Laden-- probably indirectly-- and do something no one believed possible: increase the price of oil sixfold. The Center For American Progress was all over it today and remind us that when Clinton was president a barrel of oil cost $11. But bin-Laden, bin-Cheney and bin-Bush always knew they could get that price for a barrel of oil way up there. Take a look at this NY Times ">story from October, 2001:''If bin Laden takes over and becomes king of Saudi Arabia, he'd turn off the tap,'' said Roger Diwan, a managing director of the Petroleum Finance Company, a consulting firm in... [read full story]