No blood for oil

Okay, I touched on this last week, but I don’t think I really expressed the sheer awesomeness of it: Low-income families are getting cheap oil from a crazy man who hates President Bush. (Is it a rule that all dissent-stifling leaders have to be borderline insane? I’m including Our Fearless Leader in this question, too.)

A discussion of how power corrupts aside, socialist Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez and his state-controlled oil company have shipped five million gallons of heating oil and lowered the price by 40 percent, in a deal brokered by a non-profit and Rep. Chaka Fattah.

A strange PR move for Chávez, especially since I’m not quite sure when Philadelphians will be voting in elections in South America, but hey, what do I know. Some on the right are angry about Joe Kennedy’s involvement, which makes sense — it’s like George P. Bush handing out pro-life signs at a rally.

But, come on, you can’t help but think this is so Philadelphia. It’s as if Police Commish Sylvester Johnson bought guns from the Iranians to combat the city’s rising murder rate. Come to think of it, that might not be so bad of an idea…

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