Cut Its Taxes. If It Isn't Taxed, Blow It Up.

From Adam Felber:

A brilliant critique of the Cheney energy bill...

It'll probably pass. And there will then be "$16 billion in tax breaks to boost oil drilling, coal production, nuclear power plants and the use of ethanol as a gasoline additive." Which more or less rounds out the administration's scorecard:

Taxes We Cut (or are cutting)

• income tax
• dividend tax
• estate tax
• more or less any taxes on businesses, particular in the energy industries

Things We Blew Up

• Afghanistan
• Iraq
• the environment
• the First Amendment
• the surplus

At least it's a pretty clear policy.