Cover your kid’s eyes, keep him or her away from TV, don’t let your child read a newspaper: Tom DeLay as a questionable role model has struck again:
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay quietly slipped into the energy bill a $1.5 billion fund for oil and natural gas drilling research that will benefit an energy consortium based in his home district, a California Democrat said on Wednesday.
How can you call yourself a moderate, Gandelman? So what if the money is going to his home district. It’s a concidence. It’s for oil and natural gas drilling research don’t you GET it? What’s $1.5 billion dollars? (Oh: did I tell you we’re wasting all that federal money on programs such as Headstart?):
The measure was criticized as a “giveaway to one of the most profitable industries in America,” by Rep. Henry Waxman, who demanded that the fund be dropped from the legislation before a House vote on the energy bill on Thursday.
Waxman! He’s a guy with nostrils the size of the Grand Canyon and a partisan Democrat. The fact he’s the one criticizing it shows there’s nothing wrong with DeLay quietly slipping the money into a bill. We all benefit from the $1.5 billion going into his district and he’s watching out for you (or is Bill O’Reilly the one who does that?)
The House is expected to approve the wide-ranging energy bill, which includes some $14.5 billion in tax breaks and incentives mostly for oil, natural gas, coal and electricity companies.
SO? What do oil, natural gas, coal and electricity companies have to do with Tom DeLay? And if you’re a liberal you’ll spread the RUMOR he gets money from these companies..
A vote in the Senate is tentatively set for Friday.
Waxman said the $1.5 billion fund for ultra-deepwater drilling was added to the final energy bill this week after House and Senate negotiators called a halt to any more amendments. The 30-page measure appeared in the text of the energy bill after Texas Rep. Joe Barton had officially ended the House and Senate conference committee to combine legislation passed by each chamber, he said.
SO WHAT!? You show you’re a liberal now because you don’t see how DeLay overcame these obstructionists. They weren’t negotiators. Any Republicans had to be RINOS. He was right to add that to the final bill and try to get it in. He’s watching out for you (Oh. I do think that’s the title of O’Reilly’s book).
“Obviously, it would be a serious abuse to secretly slip such a costly and controversial provision into the energy legislation,” Waxman said in a letter to House Speaker Dennis Hastert.
A spokesman for DeLay defended the fund, saying it was in the energy bill approved by the House in April.
“The project is only new to Mr. Waxman if he failed to read the House bill he had voted on,” the spokesman said, adding he could not explain how the item was added to the final version of legislation prepared by the Senate and House negotiators.
So WHAT if DeLay’s spokesman refused to explain how it was added to the final version. He was asked by a member of the liberal mainstream media — Reuters. Why should he have to explain his actions to them? They get their paycheck from their leftist office in London, anyway.
Waxman said the fund would steer most of the money to a private consortium based in Sugar Land, DeLay’s home district, by directing the Energy Department to “contract with a corporation that is constructed as a consortium.”
Members of the consortium, Research Partnership to Secure Energy for America, include Halliburton Co., Marathon Oil Corp. and several universities, according to the group’s web site.
Now you should you’re true colors. Yes, you just HAD to throw Haliburton in there. I don’t care if you QUOTED the story, Gandelman! You INCLUDED it. You;’ve shown you’re not a moderate. I bet Howard Dean ghost writes your site. So what if Haliburton is gets some money? They deserve it. Politics and campaign contributions have absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with this and if you insinuate it does, it shows you’re a liberal.
The non-profit group conducts research into designing better technology to explore and produce natural gas in deep water, the web site said.
Waxman said that the measure added to the energy bill provides that members of the consortium — including Halliburton and Marathon — can receive money from the fund administered by the consortium.
Oh.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.