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Posted at 12:53pm on Jul. 9, 2008 Winning The Battle on Drilling
D Senators Can Read Polls Too
By Dan McLaughlin
"There's clearly a dramatic shift across the ideological divide in America in favor of producing more energy here at home," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters.
"I can't imagine that the majority (Democrats in Congress) is going to ignore that indefinitely," McConnell added.
He cited a poll released on July 1 by the Pew Research Center that found that 45 percent of respondents who identify themselves as "liberals" said they favor expanded energy exploration, mining, drilling, building more power plants. In February, the figure was just 22 percent.
A top U.S. Democratic senator said in a newspaper interview published Wednesday that he would consider supporting opening up new areas for offshore oil and gas drilling.
"I'm open to drilling and responsible production," Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin told The Wall Street Journal, adding that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid could also support the move.
Your move next, Senator Obama.
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Posted at 10:36pm on Jun. 23, 2008 On the Utter Stupidity of "Drill It or Lose It"
By Vladimir
I'd almost rather believe that House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Nick Rahall (D-WV) is lying. It's hard to believe that a man in his position, from a producing state no less, could be so hopelessly uninformed on such a critical issue.
It's major-league stupid, even by the standard of House Democrats. Awe-inspiring in its multi-faceted stupidity.
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Posted at 12:48am on Jun. 20, 2008 Drill, Drill, Drill!
By Dan McLaughlin
Ruffini collects the tea leaves (including a few that have been bandied about here) adding up to a groundswell of energy behind drilling for more oil here in the U.S. Geraghty notes some of the fuzzy math the Democrats are using to discount the value of drilling here ("note that Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer uses the magic math to insist that another million barrels a day from Saudi Arabia would bring the price down by $25 a barrel and 62 cents a gallon, while the exact same amount coming from ANWR would lower prices by a penny"), but we've seen the same strategies deployed over the years against tax cuts, and they don't work; if people think the policy's a good one, they are not going to care about dueling projections of how good (by contrast, the Democrats' pick-at-the-numbers approach worked on Social Security reform in large part because Bush foolishly played on their green-eyeshade turf by fighting about "solvency" rather than stressing consumer choice).
Drilling = more supply = lower prices. Voters are not fools, they understand that, and with $4/gallon gas, they will drill their own dogs if necessary to get prices down. And the Democrats are fools if they let themselves get painted as standing in the way of that.
Posted at 2:30pm on Jun. 19, 2008 Congratulations Godfather
The New Democratic takeover crashes on
By Neil Stevens
Today, on the day of another Neocon Democratic victory, I must congratulate Godfather Jerome Armstrong. He and his new Democratic leadership clique have accomplished so much for Neocons recently, that he must be so proud of these accomplishments of the Howard Dean era of the Democratic party:
- Continuing war funding
- Agreeing on Telecom FISA immunity
- Thwarting Presidential and Vice Presidential impeachment
Yes, there is that as-yet failure to nominate Hillary Clinton, but it's quite a record. And yet, the great Vis Numar does not rest on his laurels, oh no. He's pressing on and continuing to set the Neocon agenda within the Gate-Crashed Democratic Party:
Congressional Dems should adopt the position [of promoting drilling for oil in America's coastal waters], include some safeguards, and alongside billions in funding for finding alternative fuel solutions, make it part of a long-term solution.... [T]he ideological purity position of there being an environmental/aesthetic argument against it is exactly the position the Republicans want us to adopt.
Armstrong, Moulitsas, and Dean have done so well in reshaping the Democratic party into one not merely able to follow Republican orders in Congress as a pliable minority, but to take the lead and implement the core pieces of the moderate Neocon agenda as the majority. All those centrist Democrats that the Netroots were told to get elected are truly paying off in crushing the radical left's say in the Democratic agenda. Winning over moderate Republicans must come before ideological purity, no matter how many Republican positions are adopted.
So for today I salute you, Vis Numar, as the triumphant enemy of my enemy.
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