Today, President Bush rolled out his brave plan to roll back billions in tax breaks for energy companies. But you wouldn’t know from the coverage so far that what he’s really talking about is rolling back some of the more disastrous measures of the energy bill he himself signed into law last year.
From TPM Muckraker
I’ll avoid the easy flip-flop jokes and concentrate on what’s been sticking in my craw for the past six-plus years. This administration doesn’t know the difference between being friendly to business and paying people to be your friend. And its clear that this is just a trade off with the oil barons. A small cut in subsidies in exchange for the right to polute.