Christopher: The defense trough-feeders have thus far had overruns exceeding $295 billion, but a congressional committee decides to focus its oversight inquiries into oil company profits. It figures. Boobus has never objected to demonizing people who get rich in the marketplace – to whatever degree the oil industry can still be thought of in free market terms – but would scream to high heavens if the state – with which he identifies himself – is criticized for shoveling billions (or even trillions) of dollars into the pockets of its favored “contractors.”
I am reminded of the poem:
The law locks up both man and woman
Who steals the goose from off the common,
But lets the greater felon loose
Who steals the common from the goose.
