Big Oil: “We may not always tell the truth, but we never lie.”

Oil company CEOs showed up on Capitol Hill today. They were invited to testify in front of Congress about the skyrocketing price of gas and heating oil, as well as their record-breaking quarterly profits ($25 billion).

I mean, wouldn't you like to ask them a bunch of questions about all that? Me too. Let's talk about The Grinch That Stole Christmas.

But for some reason, Chairman Ted ("Bridge to Nowhere") Stevens pointedly declined to put them under oath before their testimony began.

Is he arrogant or just tone-deaf?

P.S. IIRC, Bush and Cheney were not put under oath when questioned by Patrick Fitzgerald during the CIA Leak investigation. What is it about Republican Oil-Men that allows them to be above the law?