[This diary was originally posted in 2006. Seems like not much has changed ...]
Oil runs through the spiritual veins of every warm-blooded, true American patriot, it is our national birthright, it is our children's future, our greatest strength, our economic lynchpin, our one true cause ...
Or, oil is the scourge of humanity, it is the cause of a grossly disproportionate amount of human and environmental suffering, it turns formerly honest men (or, in some cases, demons born of human flesh - you reading, Joe Barton?) into vile, despicable pieces of homonid garbage and quickens our decent into purgatory with each acrid, mucosal drop.
Whichever religion you chose - and I admit I keel heavily toward the latter - there is one fact that there should be little disagreement over, and that couldn't be more important to Kossacks, to the Democratic party, and, indeed, to the future of our collective human enterprise:
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