How Low, How Low Can The Bushies Go

As it turns out, they can get lower than a snake wriggling around in dirt.

Remember the other day when the Venezuelan foreign minister claimed he got roughed up by airport security trying to leave the U.S. after the conclusion of the opening of the U.N. General Assembly? Both security - a federal program now - and the White House insisted this was untrue.

Yet we've since learned - although with not nearly so much fanfare as when they claimed this was a fairy tale made up by the Venezuelan delegation - that indeed, we really did give them a hard time. Not only that, they forced the foreign minister into a situation where he could not leave until they performed a very thorough strip search (think fingers up the chocolate chute.

Now, considering we don't usually employ anywhere near the security check on someone leaving the U.S. that we do on those coming in, and considering the fact that this foreign minister would normally not be searched period, this seems pretty damn odd. The only possible explanation for it was the Bushies got on the phone and made sure we would make their departure as nasty as possibe. This also happens just hours before NY governor Pataki and other Bush folks rushed before a camera telling Chavez and company to "get the hell out" of America.

Also, 7-11 chain has suddenly decided to drop the purchase of gas from Citgo, which gets its gas supply from Venezuela.