What a maroon

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President's Bush's call on Wednesday for Congress to lift its 27-year moratorium on offshore drilling is an "example of typical Bush White House politics," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev) told Cybercast News Service Thursday.

Other leading Democrats on Capitol Hill also said they were surprised that Bush has not yet rescinded the executive office ban on drilling, which was established by his father, President George H.W. Bush, in 1990.

"What the president is doing is unfair to the American people to indicate, 'We will let Congress do something about it,' " Reid said. "He has the authority to do it himself."

"This is typical Bush White House politics. It's Orwellian," Reid added. "He has the power, with the signing of a pen, to release more options for offshore drilling -- he has the power to do this."

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=/Politics/archive/200806/POL20080620a.html

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But doesn't mean he should. Oil companies already have tons of productive well heads that aren't on our seacoasts. They just wait until the price climbs before they start pumping from them. And drilling more won't have any affect on oil supply for at least 7-10 years, and then only by a very small amount.

[Mr_Cheeze]

maroon
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I love irony.

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And drilling more won't have any affect on oil supply for at least 7-10 years, and then only by a very small amount.

That's what they were saying 7-10 years ago. And 7-10 years before that and...

We need a sane energy policy that is dictated by common sense not by the environmentalists.

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Seems kinda obvious to me that reliance on industry decisions is what got us into this problem in the frst place. Short term profit drives all from that perspective. We need a round table, where they don't make the policy, and longer term planning is the goal. At best, the oil companies need to have their input seriously limited.

Environmentalists are nothing more than a group that looks beyond the immediate. There is a huge cost associated with the innefficiency that market-driven decisions create. We need more far reaching policy, but we have to figure out a way to limit the influence of huge amounts of money, from the Exxons and their Bush lapdogs.

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Yeah the first effort to bring democracy to the middle east went so well, with gas approaching 5 dollars a gallon. Why stop there. Fu#k!ng Cheney.

"William Kristol of The Weekly Standard said Sunday a U.S. attack on Iran after the election is more likely should Barack Obama win. Presumably, Bush would trust John McCain to keep Iran nuclear free. Vice President Cheney is said to favor U.S. strikes. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Mullins are said to be opposed."

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=27228

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It would take some serious balls to dump a war on the incoming president like that, no matter who it is. Talk about a serious constitutional crisis.

I don't think we can doubt anything about these a**holes, though.

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[Mr_Cheeze]

These a**holes, those a**holes... what's the difference. Like my mother always says, "They're all a bunch of a**holes." And she's right.

Elect the least a**holish. That's the trick.