Selective Scrutiny: Venezuelan Crude Oil and the Bushies

Anyone else finding it just incredibly convenient - not to mention brashly, really quite brazenly - that Condi Rice came out today to say we need to scrutinize Venezuelan oil imports and Citgo?

Condi, who has a major oil tanker named for her because of the "great assistance" she gave oil bigwigs during the Bush I administration, is amazingly selective in her scrutiny.

Do I think Hugo Chavez is some angel? No. But with what I know of the Bushies, I'm very suspicious of the efforts to eliminate him as a player, given what the Bushies tell us.

It was Chavez - albeit it with a big finger aimed at the Bushies - who came through for many of the poor this winter with budget oil, not Exxon, not the Texans, not the other pieces of manure that pass for America's energy companies and drive up prices like crazy.

And one more thing. Before you blame the new spike in prices just on the attack on the world's largest oil refinery (we're told al Qaeda is claiming responsibility but who knows?), consider that the price jumped right after Condi's big announcement of an investigation into Venezuelan fuel imports.

The stink you smell comes from those two Texas oil men in the White House. Impeach 'em.