strange bedfellows indeed ... an SUV death knell?

[welshTerrier2]

every once in awhile, there's this kind of underground rumbling that looks to find a sort of "arranged marriage" between certain traditional conservatives and those of us on the left ...

if seeing old Bob Barr working with the ACLU doesn't give you a hint, what does? and some on both sides of the great divide have grown increasingly outspoken about the loss of democracy due to excessive money in our electoral system ... perhaps there's an opening there ...

but this story takes the cake ... i never thought i'd see the day when some in America's right-wing called for a reduction in oil imports ...

source: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=nm/energy_gasoline_autos_dc

A group of former national security officials on Monday took up the cause of weaning U.S. drivers from their oil addiction -- normally the realm of environmental groups -- and asked the Bush administration to spend $1 billion on lighter, more fuel-efficient automobiles.<skip>

Policymakers should address rampant oil demand from gas-guzzling vehicles, and stop trying to solve the problem by opening land like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling, she said.<skip>

U.S. drivers should not depend on foreign suppliers like Saudi Arabia for security reasons, they said. Although Saudi officials say the kingdom's oilfields are protected from terror attacks, McFarlane said the oil installations are "extremely vulnerable from a military point of view."

If Saudi oil facilities are damaged, "You're not talking about $100 (per barrel) oil. You're talking about well beyond that," McFarlane said. U.S. crude oil prices peaked on March 17 at $57.60 a barrel.

[Merope215]

1. Good. Maybe if their people are saying it

they'll realize the rest of us haven't been acting like lunatics over the whole thing, understand that the point is important, and actually do something about it.

On second thought, that's probably too optimistic.

[rzemanfl]

2. Did you mean "knell?" n/t

[welshTerrier2]

4. that's good ...

a death "knoll" must be where they plan to bury the old SUV's ...

good catch ...

[rzemanfl]

5. No, it's the grassy place from which they shoot into their engine

blocks after trying to stop them with hand signals and lights.

[welshTerrier2]

6. ahhhh ...

From: Dick Cheney

To: Scott McClellan

Scott,

I made a few minor changes to "correct" your story ... get it out right way.

Dick

*************************

The well-meaning Americans, acting without any orders from the White House, failed to were unable to execute identify the Communist young Italian journalist as her heavily armed speeding vehicle approached the death knoll ...

[salin]

3. Wait... IranContra McFarlane... and Defense Policy Board and,

I believe Richard Perle Crony .. Woolsey - are pushing for thin - include specifiying the foolishness of Anwr as a response?

Wow.

It is like a quick cosmic shift is underway...