“Hark“, a commenter on The Carpetbagger Report blog site posted something I felt deserves more airtime:

Barbara Boxer spoke this afternoon from the Senate on Bush’s drilling plan nonsense. It was carried on C-Span 2, where I caught it while on the treadmill.. She was quite effective, and she addressed those mysterious 68 million acres that the media won’t follow up on. She said they contain more than six times the oil in ANWR, and the oil companies aren’t exploiting them simply because they like things the way they are. She said they want the offshore and ANWR acreage simply to pad their balance sheets and raise stock prices. She also made the point that it is the oil companies that are keeping refinery capacity tight, again for business reasons.

She had a good line, illustrated on a poster: (8 Years) divided by (two oil men) = 4$ a gallon gasoline.

She said a lot more, but I think the truth about those 68 million acres should shoot this drilling proposal down just by itself. It won’t, of course, because the media won’t tell the American people the truth.

The American people are never going to know how corrupt George Bush and his administration and this current roster of Republicans actually are, and that could be the end of us. They have just not learned the lesson. How else can you explain John McCain running neck and neck with Obama?