Why am I sooooo UNsurprised by a lacklustre economy? Afrter all, people are giving their money to Bush's friends just to stay warm and get to work. Also, the economy goes bad any time a GOP regime is in power, like since 1/20/2001 with or without an oil peak. The nearing oil peak only worsens matters or gives the Bush v.2.0 regime an excuse.

With or without cooking the books, a GOP regime always means the economy sucks for those who are not gazillionaires. It sucked under Reagan just as well as now. The oil peak only helps Republicans impoverish the middle class, which is their goal. Why anyone votes for these arseholes puzzles me to no end - and the Dems aren't much better. Why Bush won't talk about the oil peak is simply becuse he can't ever tell the truth about anything. I guess democracy itself wan't Y2K-compliant.