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...president, and if you drop out (as Dick Cheney did) you get to be vice president, and about not being able to remember everything that happened to him at Yale. The effect was not endearing, but demeaning to the office that was held by Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt. I have tried for months to be fair to George W. Bush, but that scene in New Haven gave me a rush of something like contempt...
Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham acknowledges that the new policy won't do much now, but he insists that those short-term issues will be addressed "on a separate track." His department is investigating reports that gas-station owners have been told to expect $3-a-gal. prices this summer. Those rumors, Abraham suggests, might be evidence of price gouging. "Rumors become self-fulfilling prophecies," he says...
...drilling in Alaska, Abraham does not argue that the public and Congress are ready to support the idea. But, he asks, "do we think we should take 2,000 acres of a 19 million-acre refuge that can in fact be environmentally, sensitively produced and try to build more energy independence in the U.S.? I think it's a fair debate to have...
...that the hard sell begins "Cheney's work is done," according to a senior aide. Next week Energy Secretary Spence Abraham will be hitting the road to try to sell the plan and the president will take it to energy-starved California. And though Cheney led the task force that devised the plan, putting in countless hours of detail work while the President focused on other issues, the product no longer carries his name or title. Until last week, internal copies of the task force's 176-page report had a royal blue cover bearing the Vice Presidential seal...
...both Fleischer and Abraham and a host of others went out of their way to remind reporters and viewers, again and again and again, that, as Abraham put it, "If we continue down the road of the LAST EIGHT YEARS, Americans can expect higher energy prices well into the future." Fleischer did it five times on Wednesday. But when he was asked how long it would be politically effective to blame Bill Clinton for today's "energy crisis", Fleischer pretended to be shocked at the suggestion. "It's not a question of blame," the spokesman insisted earnestly, twice, before casting...