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Utterly discredited? You've got the job.
OK, now we've seen everything. Philip A. Cooney, the White House staffer who last week got busted for "revising" government scientific reports to minimize the link between human activity and global warming, is going to work for ... ExxonMobil!
Just posted at the New York Times:
An Exxon spokesman, Tom Cirigliano, declined to describe Mr. Cooney's new job. Associates of Mr. Cooney said he planned to move to Dallas. Mr. Cooney did not return e-mail or phone messages.ExxonMobil has long financed advertising and lobbying efforts that question whether human-caused warming poses sufficiently serious risks to justify curbing carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas emitted by smokestacks and tailpipes.
Today, Mr. Cirigliano said the oil company was committed to acting responsibly on the issue. ...
Some climate scientists and environmental campaigners said Mr. Cooney's quick shift from the White House to Exxon was evidence of a near-seamless relationship between the Bush administration and the oil industry.
"Perhaps he won't even notice he has changed jobs," said David G. Hawkins, who directs the climate center at the Natural Resources Defense Council, a private environmental group.
No matter how cynical you get, you just can't keep up with these guys.
Philip A. Cooney is the chief of staff of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, an institution that shapes much of America's environmental policy.
Mr. Cooney is a lawyer and holds a bachalors degree in economics. Prior to his current position he was a "climate team leader" and lobbyist with the American Petroleum Institute.

RISE AND FALL AND RISE....ExxonMobil timeline:
· Seven days ago: "President's George Bush's decision not to sign the United States up to the Kyoto global warming treaty was partly a result of pressure from ExxonMobil, the world's most powerful oil company, and other industries, according to US State Department papers seen by the Guardian."
· Also seven days ago: "A White House official who once led the oil industry's fight against limits on greenhouse gases has repeatedly edited government climate reports in ways that play down links between such emissions and global warming, according to internal documents....The official, Philip A. Cooney, removed or adjusted descriptions of climate research that government scientists and their supervisors...had already approved."
· Five days ago: "Philip A. Cooney, the chief of staff to President Bush’s Council on Environmental Quality, resigned yesterday, White House officials said."
· Today: "Philip A. Cooney, the former White House staff member who repeatedly revised government scientific reports on global warming, will go to work for Exxon Mobil this fall, the oil company said yesterday."
Patch has always said, one cannot tell where the Bush Administration and Congress stops and the oil industry begins.


War for Pork
If the United States ever withdraws from Iraq and the central government collapses, or, god forbid, the country plunges into civil war, who's going to get blamed? Why, the liberal media, of course, along with various antiwar types who, as Tom Friedman declared, "don't want the Bush team to succeed." Because naturally, every morning, Zarqawi and his band of jihadists wake up, depressed and unsure if they can get through the day, moping about until they take their first sip of coffee and see the New York Times front page cheering them on. Then they get "emboldened" and spring to action. That's why Iraq has so many problems, you know. Surely this sort of stuff isn't to blame:
Congress, taking advantage of wartime support of national defense spending, is using the military's budget to steer billions to pet projects that apparently have little to do with Iraq or the ongoing war on terrorism, according to congressional documents, government budget officials, and watchdog groups.
The projects range from an unneeded warship and a seriously flawed cargo plane the Pentagon tried to cancel to millions each for a Mississippi wastewater treatment plant, a Nevada fire training station, and a Texas research hospital, the documents show.
The liberal media made them do it? (Mother Jones)


Here in Ohio, it’s more and more apparent that the vote for President was fraudulent. And now it’s becoming apparent that the money to finance the fraud was stolen from the state. In one voting district, there were 5000 more votes then voters in the district. Just so happens all 5000 votes were for Bush. Patch is so surprised!

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