The White House is making a last-minute push to save the energy bill. this, remember, is a bill that grew very slowly, beginning with Dick Cheney’s historic round table with… with… some guys.
Who those guys were is none of your damn business, of course. But it’s fair to ask this: What exactly is this energy bill? What is it going to do, and how?
Well, that shouldn’t be too hard to explain if you know the Bush administration - the simple application of Rovenomics applies. And the relevant rule from the Book of Rove is pretty clear - Cut its taxes. If it doesn’t have taxes to cut, blow it up.
It’ll probably pass. And there will then be “$16 billion in tax breaks to boost oil drilling, coal production, nuclear power plants and the use of ethanol as a gasoline additive.” Which more or less rounds out the administration’s scorecard:
Taxes We Cut (or are cutting)
- income tax
- dividend tax
- estate tax
- more or less any taxes on businesses, particular in the energy industries
Things We Blew Up
- Afghanistan
- Iraq
- the environment
- the First Amendment
- the surplus
At least it’s a pretty clear policy.
Fanny Roborat
11 comments
Miel
November 5, 2003 at 1:39 am
1Well, there’s also–exploit it, rape it, suck it dry and make it money! Like the Alaskan National Wilderness…etc.
But that might not counts as Rovenomics.
Ken, Just Ken...
November 5, 2003 at 2:21 am
2Miel,
Well that’s known as “Voodoo Rovenomics”
Murray
November 5, 2003 at 11:46 am
3I believe that the idea is to use up all of our resources as fast as possible. There is not even a nod to conservation or renewable enerty.
Sort of like the Gary Larson Far Side cartoon where you see a ship sinking in the background and a life boat full of dogs. The lead dogs says “All in favor of eating all of the food, all at once, right now, raise your paws”
Maybe Rovernomics would be closer.
Chicory
November 5, 2003 at 12:40 pm
4Don’t forget those big tax breaks to people who buy SUV’s and drive them for work. No tax breaks for the energy efficient Prius though.
Yep, vodoo Rovenomics. That man is just evil!!
Don
November 5, 2003 at 1:42 pm
5Under “Things We Blew Up” add:
Due Process
Ras_Nesta
November 5, 2003 at 1:56 pm
6You also need to add “Objective and Independent (After CBS’s Gipper-pander) Press” under the “Things That Go Blooie” list.
Quick, look over there, the Kobe Bryant trial!
tim
November 5, 2003 at 3:24 pm
7In place of “The Reagans”, CBS will be airing “Tripp: A True American Hero”, which, interestingly enough, also stars James Brolin.
t.a.
November 5, 2003 at 4:11 pm
8thank god they tax unemployment benefits. when my job ends it 2 months, then i’ll start to get rich.
aaron the bush administration sympathizer
November 5, 2003 at 4:55 pm
9I’ll chalk this up to your cold, but you are WAY oversimplifying here. There are so many nuances and subtleties in true Rovenomics that you simply can’t sum up in four paragraphs and a couple lists.
For example: The environment hasn’t been “blown up,” it’s been “backburnered” in favor of more pressing issues, like making money by destroying the environment.
And I’ll have you know that there are quite a few taxes on businesses that were not cut at all. They were removed entirely! So stick that in your (ahem) and (ahem) it!
And this “First Amendment” of yours?!?! What the hell is that? Is this some kind of “Left-Wing Lingo” that I’m just not hip to?
Please. Before you go running your mouth off at this administration, just remember who you’re going to come running to when all the hostile anti-american regimes that we either created or put in power that have multiplied exponentially in recent years because our foreign policy has done virtually nothing but create a perfect breeding environment for that kind of thing come knocking on YOUR door.
Anonymous
November 6, 2003 at 2:06 am
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…now it makes… sense?
Sara J
November 7, 2003 at 12:15 pm
11Uh, so what you’re saying is, when everyone in the world decides to come after us we can turn to Bush for some good dope to help us ignore the situation?
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