The President who said “America is addicted to oil” now begs the Saudis for another fix. Like some binge-drinking, pill-popping starlet — is there any other kind? — the President is prostrate before his top foreign “dealer,” begging for more, even at the risk of public humiliation:
Wow! When even your dealer won’t sell you more, you have got a real problem.
Just one hour later, though, “President Bush made a private visit to Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah to again ask him to open the spigots.”
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That is like being turned down by your dealer and then desperately appealing directly to Pablo Escobar.
Anyone for rehab or, say, plug in hybrids?