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Perhaps if the White House were actually backing entrepreneurial solutions to problems rather than big company non-solutions it would be easier for them to deal with a fortunate financier who has no appreciation for actual entrepreneurship.

Oh! You mean things like SOCIALIZED HEALTH CARE? MORE ENTITLEMENTS WE ALL PAY FOR CRIMINALS AND ILLEGAL ALIENS? MAYBE DRIVERS LICENSES FOR ILLEGALS?

You are spinning a twist on words beyond belief. THIS White House is far more pro-biz (and NOT just "big biz") then any in a long time.

Gimme a break.

This "AmericanVictory" really looks like one of the first pricks in the DNC lie wave that is coming.

We disagree. First of all the Clinton White House was very much for crony Capitalism, particularly for certain individuals and their companies, Riady style. While the Bush White House has been more pro business in a traditional sense, and has expressed its desire to help small business, it in fact, along with the Congressional leadership of both parties, remains bound in a culture that subsidizes boondoggles such as ethanol rather than enabling actual solutions.

We know, because we tried to work with all parties here in Washington to implement solutions and so far, have received no assistance from the White House, or either party in Congress. This may soon change but it will follow our having spent several years putting together the private financng to implement solutions such as providing for us to have cheaper, cleaner gasoline that greatly lessens our dependence on foreign oil, while working at at the state rather than the federal level.

On this one, for example, Senator John McCain is correct when he says that the now stalled energy bill is not a policy so much as a collection of subsidies, with no subsidy left behind. Moreover they are subsidies that will ot provide solutions to the glaring problem of oil dependence but will crowd out solutions. Small business has to be more than a collection of owners of franchises and local retail as kind of house pet collection, it has to be an arena where those who come up with better technology displacing our present technology, are allowed the capital formation to implement it.

Such things as reliance on the Cheney task force for solutions to our energy dependence problem are the least effective way to find a solution to the problem. If those involved in that task force had solutions they were comfortabler with adopting we would have seen them implemented long since.

The simple truth is that the solutions would displace their present technology and they will not allow them to proceed unless they can control them and retard them. There is a track record on this and it will be revealed over the next year as the implementation of the actual solutions proceeds.