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Buh-Bye, Texas Oil-For-Food Scandal. The Wingnuts Will Miss You.

Posted by Phoenix Woman on March 24, 2007

Ian Williams drives the final garlic-smeared silver-studded wooden stake through the heart of a favorite piece of wingnut mythology.

As I predicted nearly two years ago, the conservatives in the US largely shut the hell up about Oil-for-Food when it was found that the people working hardest to rip it off were oil men based in Houston, Texas. (And guess what? The lead perp, David Chalmers, is a big donator to the GOP.)

3 Responses to “Buh-Bye, Texas Oil-For-Food Scandal. The Wingnuts Will Miss You.”

  1. LetterMan said

    Well, this was one petard they really, truly hoisted themselved up on top of.

    Serves them right.

  2. Truly, readers of this site get tomorrow’s news yesterday.

  3. [...] got so exercised over “the Oil-for-Food scandal” (at least until it was discovered that Texas Republicans were at the heart of it), yet have looked the other way for years now in regard to the $9 billion that went missing during [...]

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