The Senate have passed a bill (S. 3) to organize the Supreme Court of the Confederate States;In which I am directed to ask the concurrence of this House.
Further efforts apparently hung up in the House. As I posted before (#674) May 26, 1864: Mr. Russell, from the same committee [Judiciary, House], to whom had been referred a bill (H. R. 35) "to organize the Supreme Court of the Confederate States," reported back the same with the recommendation that it do not pass.
As you well know, last week the Senate failed to get enough votes to pass the Energy Bill, which would codify the nation's energy policy into a new law. Even worse, for months the Senate has been using constant delay tactics every time it comes up!
Sure, President Bush may have asked Congress to pass the energy bill in a State of the Union address a year or two ago, but can we truly know that he wasn't simply paying lip service to it? After all, it hasn't passed, has it? And his statement on energy was buried deep in the speech, taking up only a few lines at most. Also, President Bush hasn't been over there on the Senate floor personally lobbying for votes, has he?
Bush sure hasn't dispatched any of his allies to lobby for it either. True, he may have sent Spencer Abraham over to capitol hill to push for it from time to time, but that was simply because Abraham doesn't have anything else to do, what with ANWAR being protected by a law that stops him and his big oil company cohorts from disrupting the pristine permafrost. So he doesn't count, meaning Bush hasn't sent anybody important and must not care if the bill dies.
You may also claim that in addition to his speech Bush has written about the energy bill in a bunch of letters and other documents. That he probably has, but we haven't seen those letters, have we? After all, weren't they all drafted in secret meetings with the CEOs of Enron and Halliburton? Weren't they? So since we don't know what those documents say we may just as safely assume that they are all opposed to the energy bill, right? After all, Bush sure doesn't want any new energy law governing what he can do during backroom meetings with oil execs. So can't we conclude that he probably opposed it in all those secret documents?
We do, of course, know that the Senate refuses to pass the energy bill. Heck, they aren't even giving it a real debate. What with all these "table" and "cloture" and "amend" motions being filed, it all looks more like delaying tactics than a debate to me! And since President Bush's support was simply lip service buried deep within a speech, we may conclude that he actually doesn't mind the senate's delay tactics, can't we?
Since we also know that Bush is an inherently evil and nefarious guy in general, all of this leads to only one possible conclusion: George Bush is conspiring with Tom Daschle and the Senate Democrats to suppress the Energy Bill so he can continue to run the nation's energy policies with dictatorial power from small, closed smokey backroom meetings with energy executives from the big oil companies!