Joe Kennedy's op-ed complains that his deal to provide cheap oil has been politicized by conservatives.

Getting cheap oil from anywhere to distribute to the poor is fine and good for him if that's all there is to it. But if part of the deal is that he has to promote the source, his so-called "friends from Venezuela," then it is he who has politicized the deal by turning himself into a Chavez apologist 4 oil.

What Kennedy apparently doesn't get is that it's one thing to do business with Venezuela, it's quite another to be bought by them.