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vhsiv — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:16:41 -0800

Teapot Dome 2008 -- "The report also detailed cozy relationships between energy companies and other officials in the royalty-in-kind program office. Some 19 officials — a third of the staff — took gifts from oil and gas executives, some with "prodigious frequency," it said."

On one occasion in 2002, the report said, two of the officials who marketed taxpayers' oil got so drunk at a daytime golfing event sponsored by Shell that they could not drive to their hotels and were put up in Shell-provided lodging. Two female employees "engaged in brief sexual relationships with industry contacts," the reports' cover memo said, adding that "sexual relationships with prohibited sources cannot, by definition, be arms' length."

Sex, drugs and caged oil contracts over at the Department of the Interior.

By: the_bone

the_bone — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:36:01 -0800

"The investigation also concluded that several of the officials "frequently consumed alcohol at industry functions, had used cocaine and marijuana, and had sexual relationships with oil and gas company representatives." Drill, baby, drill!

By: troy

troy — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:39:28 -0800

Su. . .

By: From Bklyn

From Bklyn — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:48:20 -0800

Why I Never!

By: paul_smatatoes

paul_smatatoes — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:07:39 -0800

lipstick on a rig

By: chillmost

chillmost — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:10:44 -0800

Oil and sex? Kinky!

By: vhsiv

vhsiv — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:16:32 -0800

Teapot Dome 1921: Less cocaine

By: adipocere

adipocere — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 02:05:09 -0800

Oh, a sexual relationship can be at arm's length. It's just that your wrist muscles get kind of tired after a while.

By: maxwelton

maxwelton — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:32:19 -0800

Oh, a sexual relationship can be at arm's length. "I never laid a finger on her. Unless, of course, you call this a finger."

By: fungible

fungible — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 05:53:16 -0800

If Obama doesn't come out by tomorrow saying "They're in bed with Big Oil! Literally!" then I'll be really depressed.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 06:09:12 -0800

If Obama doesn't come out by tomorrow saying "They're in bed with Big Oil! Literally!" then I'll be really depressed. Oh come on, he doesn't need to get that specific.

By: stbalbach

stbalbach — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 06:12:52 -0800

Big oil screws the people in many ways.

By: Kadin2048

Kadin2048 — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 06:13:14 -0800

Clearly I am working in the wrong sector.

By: aramaic

aramaic — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 06:13:43 -0800

Big oil screws the people in many ways. ...but not me! (bursts into tears)

By: spicynuts

spicynuts — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:08:37 -0800

MMmmmmmmmmmm...smell that? I love the smell of a pardon in the morning.

By: chillmost

chillmost — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:45:14 -0800

"When you come to work for the federal government, the American people expect the best of you..." Really? The bare minimum in order to not get caught and/or fired maybe, but the best?

By: spicynuts

spicynuts — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:50:55 -0800

Really? The bare minimum in order to not get caught and/or fired maybe, but the best? Right..like when I call the IRS I damn well know I'm not going to get someone that is concerned with giving me his/her best.

By: Danf

Danf — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:00:49 -0800

Heckuva job, Kempy!

By: inigo2

inigo2 — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:19:45 -0800

Imagine what tawdry stuff went on in the closed door energy meetings that they won't release details about. Cheney, rawr.

By: Saxon Kane

Saxon Kane — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:40:50 -0800

inigo2: Cheney and Ken Lay were having a big, dirty, sweaty fuck and suck fest.

By: troy

troy — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:46:27 -0800

So THAT'S why Cheney won't release the energy committee meeting minutes from 2001 LOL

By: troy

troy — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:47:11 -0800

er, what inigo2 said.

By: jonp72

jonp72 — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:54:35 -0800

Sex, drugs, oil, abuse of power, bribery... This scandal has everything but bestiality and pedophilia going for it. We are so inured to the buzzing background level of corruption in the Bush Administration that we have forgotten how to sink our teeth into a scandal this juicy! Can you imagine the outcry if this had happened under the watch of a Democratic administration?

By: Atreides

Atreides — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:03:22 -0800

We are so inured to the buzzing background level of corruption in the Bush Administration that we have forgotten how to sink our teeth into a scandal this juicy!-Jonp72 Sadly, that was my first reaction, or lack thereof. "Oh, this was expected."

By: rusty

rusty — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:14:11 -0800

"Energy committee meeting minutes?" Those were energy committee meeting hours, baby.

By: lukemeister

lukemeister — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:32:24 -0800

Minerals Management Service meeting

By: Durn Bronzefist

Durn Bronzefist — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:10:54 -0800

Can you imagine the outcry if this had happened under the watch of a Democratic administration? It would be huge. The media would go nuts. People who were feeling a bit ashamed about supporting the GOP would throw this out as justification and sleep easy at night, then repeat this whenever questioned about anything, dragging some moderates and undecideds along for the ride. To call this a double standard doesn't quite do it justice. There is a single standard: for Democrats. The GOP can do what it wants because their flag wavers will just incorporate any old excuse tossed out no matter how bare and repeat it as mantra. If there is one thing the past 7 years have taught me, it's that hiding your ill doings just slows down the degradation. Get it out in the open, where your supporters can defend it with the full weight of their own cognitive dissonance.

By: homunculus

homunculus — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:59:32 -0800

Two High-Ranking McCain Campaign Officials Lobbied For Companies At Center of Sex-For-Oil Scandal