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Absurd Legislation

by John Cole|  November 22, 20037:44 pm| 4 Comments

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The Energy Bill really is disgusting. I hated the way the Democrats launched their jihad against Cheney and the manner the energy bill was written, and it is still my belief that how the bill was written is not relevant. What is relevant, however, is that this bill, by most objective accounts and non-objective accounts (such as this, via Max Sawicky), is just a disgusting, distasteful, pork-barrel waste of a stinker.

Most personally offensive to me are the ethanol subsidies and the gas pipeline subsidies.

Try again, folks.

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  1. 1.

    drew

    November 23, 2003 at 1:22 am

    Those ethanol subsidies will make my work to get Byron Dorgan reelected much much easier. I would normally voice my disgust but those subsidies are key to my boy here in North Dakota.

    Those subsidies will also help Dasche (Senator Ethanol Subsidy, as Atrios calls him) win in 04.

  2. 2.

    russ

    November 23, 2003 at 8:09 am

    Energy bill + pork components + already balloning deficit = dumb, dumb politics!

    Consider the following commentary from the site: Citizens Against Government Waste:

    (http://www.cagw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=news_NewsRelease_11182003)

    CCAGW points to the following special interest spending items in the energy bill:

    $20 billion for a 3,500-mile pipeline from Alaska to the lower 48 states, including a $20 million worker-training program for pipeline workers.

    $2.9 billion in corporate welfare for some of the wealthiest corporations in the fossil fuel industry.

    $2 billion

  3. 3.

    Andrew Lazarus

    November 24, 2003 at 2:17 am

    Yglesias nails it:

    Elizabeth Bumiller’s headline in the Times: “For White House, 2 Bills Offer Route to Political High Ground.” If passing two pork-laden bills that are opposed by every principled person in the country will get you to the high ground, then I suppose it’s safe to say that the high road leads somewhere else.

  4. 4.

    BC guy

    November 24, 2003 at 7:20 pm

    What makes bush think we will let a pipeline come through canada?

    foolish thinking

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