Hank: We do agree on the need for getting corporate money out of the hands of politicians. But how can a free marketer say there should have been more government oversight and regulation? The Rs have preached the gospel of deregulation forever. How’s that working for ya?

The Rs are also on their bandwagon that Obama should do more. How's that fit with your concept of smaller gubmint? You STILL can’t have it both ways.

Big Oil spent millions of dollars to sweep—and keep—George W. Bush and Dick Cheney in the White House. And it got its money’s worth.

The new administration and its staunchly pro-oil congressional allies returned the favor by enacting one of the most pro-oil, anti-environment pieces of legislation in history: the Energy Policy Act of 2005—itself based on the recommendations of Cheney’s secret energy policy task force.