A SF Chron columnist was just listing the Bush cohorts and their 'accomplishments' and asked.. the same thing: isn't it about time that Ollie is named as er some sort of S.American Attache? After all - there is all that Venezuelan [oil] in danger of being unaccounted for, without perhaps, a little persuasion.

Gawd.. what a tin-trap mind; one can hear the tiny wheels clanking from 3000 miles away. Any bets on the rehab of Ollie next, as another "one representing the Ideals of the Founding Fathers"? (Yes it's been used - short attention span can be counted on. Nobody will remember, among half of the voting half = the 25% who won't even blink. Or will break out the Stars and Bars.)

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