Energy Secretary Says Bush Told a Fib

Like hog ranchers hosing down the swine after they've rolled around in their own shit, less than twenty-four hours after George Bush spoke from his State of the Union Address pulpit, addressing Congress and the American people, promising to cut Middle East oil imports by 75% by 2025, his direct reports kick into high gear saying it ain't so.

"This was purely an example," Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman said.

He said the broad goal was to displace foreign oil imports, from anywhere,
with domestic alternatives. He acknowledged that oil is a freely traded
commodity bought and sold globally by private firms. Consequently, it
would be very difficult to reduce imports from any single region,
especially the most oil-rich region on Earth.

Asked why the president used the words "the Middle East" when he didn't
really mean them, one administration official said Bush wanted to
dramatize the issue in a way that "every American sitting out there
listening to the speech understands." The official spoke only on condition
of anonymity because he feared that his remarks might get him in trouble.

Seems it's been over 200 years since the story of George Washington admitting that he chopped down that cherry tree. But George Bush is our President now. And that man can look you straight in the eye, standing right next to the fallen cherry tree, holding the axe with cherry juice dripping down his rotten, sticky face and tell you that Bill Clinton chopped down the cherry tree.