{"id":1000,"date":"2006-02-14T04:46:38","date_gmt":"2006-02-14T04:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:09:34","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:09:34","slug":"fullyowned_subs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1000","title":{"rendered":"Fully-Owned Subsidaries Of The House Of Saud"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m hammered pretty regularly for claiming that the core of the Democratic Party’s foreign policy “cloud” really doesn’t do a good job of standing for American interests. I’m reminded that Kos isn’t the Democratic Party, Cindy Sheehan isn’t the Democratic Party, Michael Moore isn’t the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n

Well, Al Gore is actually pretty damn close to the epicenter of the Democratic Party.In case you’ve missed it, here’s what he said in Saudi this weekend<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Gore said Arabs had been “indiscriminately rounded up” and held in “unforgivable” conditions. The former vice president said the Bush administration was playing into al-Qaida’s hands by routinely blocking Saudi visa applications.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He was in good company in donning kneepads:<\/p>\n

Also at the forum, the vice chairman of Chevron Corp., Peter Robertson, said President Bush’s desire to cut U.S. dependence on Mideast oil shows a “misunderstanding” of global energy supply and the critical role of Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n

\nIn his State of the Union address this month, Bush pledged to cut U.S. dependence on Middle East oil by 75 percent by 2025.<\/p>\n

\n“This notion of being energy independent is completely unreasonable,” Robertson said at the economic forum, which opened Saturday.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I can forgive Chevron – he’s an oil company executive; if he wasn’t venal and shortsighted, I’d worry.<\/p>\n

But what the hell is Gore thinking? I know that the House of Saud owns a substantial portion of Congress, but I didn’t think they invested in has-been candidates.<\/p>\n

And where is someone, anyone in the Democratic Party to smack some sense into him? This is just embarrassing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Al Gore welcomes his new overlords.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}