"Well, what a surprise. George Bush came from the Texas big business community. He was encouraged, and funded to run for president, by the Texas big business community, because he was the kind of politician who might introduce policies favourable to Texas big business. If he had got to the White House and created an energy policy benefiting small start-up outfits in Maine, it really would be time for a congressional investigation as the president would have gone insane (forgetting the rules of electoral politics), or the small-business energy lobby had photos of him with a goat." (Mark Lawson, Guardian UK) Link: Of course Bush listens to his friends