Buddy, regarding your post 109, we need to recall that it was President I-Can’t-Control-My-Own-Willie Clinton who authorized the DOE to make the Elk Hills Oil Reserves available for public auction during his administration. We further need to recall that it was Occidental Petroleum — a very large share of which is owned by the family of Nobel Laureate Environmental POSEUR Al Gore — that was awarded the $Billion + contract.

Amazin’ coincidence, if you believe in coincidences…

The U.S. Department of Energy official website describes this as “the largest divestiture of federal property in the history of the U.S. government.” [... i.e., at the time of the statement]

That reservation was set aside in the early decades of the 20th century after the U.S. Navy was completing its transition from coal to fuel oil to power its ships. The decision for the federal government to hold these and other oil fields in reserve was a strategic decision to strenuously avoid a situation in which the United States might be unable to defend its citizens, merchants, allies, or military forces because of a shortage of petroleum.

The President who threw that away also personally intervened to allow the sale of top-secret missile guidance technology to the People’s Republic of China, and accepted many millions of dollars of campaign contributions from the PRC, and repeatedly entertained their “lobbyists” in exclusive overnight stays in the White House.

I don’t deny that there are Republican Senators & Congressional Reps who have shown reprehensible, even criminal behavior.

But these are just a few items in an encyclopedic list of examples showing how the Democrat Party Leadership has been involved in a decades-long frenzy of looting and betrayal of this country for money.