So let me get this straight, you control the White…

So let me get this straight, you control the White House, both Houses of Congress, and the Supreme Court, and your administration has closer ties to the energy industry than any administration in history, and those two blockheads stopped you?

Jon Stewart

On Dick Cheney blaming the defeat of an energy bill on the absence of Kerry and Edwards to vote on it.

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