Gives new meaning to "drill here, drill now," doesn't it?

You have heard that the Justice Department is declining to investigate or prosecute any illegalities found to have been perpetrated.

Alrighty then.

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"You can't fix stupid..." ~ Ron White"
"I never said I wasn't a brat..." ~ Talidapali

The cost of Republican mishandling of the federal government continues to rise.

A voice vote in the Senate and a 376-29 House vote today directly reversed a chunk of Clinton's surplus. In 1998, Clinton and the Gingrich Congress had amassed enough surplus in the federal highway fund to transfer $8 billion to the Treasury to pay down federal debt. Removing incumbents tends to diminish the influence of lobbyists and donors.

Bush and the pro-torture Congress drained the highway fund to empty, Transportation Sec Mary Peters announcing last week that payments to states for road projects would not be possible in October unless the fund was replenished. Congress voted to return the "borrowed" $8B to the highway fund.

The federal gas tax, 18.4 cents/gal, has not changed since 1993. The 2005 highway bill, at the height of the Republican frenzy, included $24 billion in earmarks amid its $286 billion total. Working the earmarks in to the transportation budget was Peters' job.

Another $8 billion added to the Bush tab.

Yes, they were just doing government jobs the way the GOP intends. Double up and get cozy with industry, because they and it knows best how to do their business. Choose your play on words.

But if Obama makes some lipstick remark...