Citgo is the wholly-owned subsidiary of the national oil company of Venezuela. It set-up a program where it is providing subsidized heating oil or gas to poor communities in Chicago, Boston and New York. Remember when Grassley was begging the major oil companies during to Senate Hearings on price-gouging to do something similar but got no takers?

Heard last week on Democracy Now, a Senate Commmittee (intelligence, I think) was starting an investigation into the Citgo program looking for fraud or other wrong-doing. This is apparently more important than investigating how Bush lied us into the Iraq war or of Bush's illegal wiretapping program.

This sort of irony would be funny if it were not so sickening.