Great gobs of goo,
look at this!!
And see what Times staff writer Noam N. Levey
has to say about John Sidney McCain III's energy, um, energy, uh...We can't really call it a policy, maybe "policies" would be the best way to express it.
"We must steer far clear of the errors and false assumptions that have marked the energy policies of nearly 20 Congresses and seven presidents," the presumptive Republican nominee told a crowd of oil executives in Houston.
For the last 35 yrs, since the big gas-line crisis of 1973, there has been blather about "alternative, renewable, non-foreign, inexpensive, non-terrorist enabling, non-polluting miracle energy sources," & as nearly as the fine minds on the editorial staff here can determine, not one thing has been done even to head us in that direction, let alone accomplish anything. For McCain to point this out & pretend he'll do anything about it (before a crowd of oil executives, yet) is disingenuous (He's fucking lying!!!) at the least.
But McCain's record of tackling energy policy on Capitol Hill shows little of the clear direction he says would come from a McCain White House.
Instead, the Arizona senator has swerved from one position to another over the years, taking often contradictory stances on the federal government's role in energy policy.
When John Kerry changes his mind, he's "flip-flopping." When John Sidney McCain III is jumping all over the place, well,
Senior McCain policy advisor Douglas Holtz-Eakin said McCain's positions reflected a pragmatic approach to governing. "Sen. McCain is interested in getting results," he said.
So, flip-floppery is pragmatism, war is peace, freedom is slavery, &c.?
The rest of Levey's article is a lovely laundry list of McCain's outright contradictory positions & statements on energy. Much as we hate to bring up the age issue, are we looking at memory problems here? Or merely the usual political problem of which lobbyist most recently had his ear?
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