| Bush Pushes for Offshore Oil Drilling |
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| by Tom McGregor | Wed, Jul 30, 2008, 01:21 PM |
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CNN reports that, “a partisan fight over energy legislation has tied Congress in knots as members head toward a summer recess, which starts at the end of this week.” Bush accused Democrats of blocking a vote on offshore drilling, but Senate Democrats have already offered a proposal that would allow a vote on the measure, which would lift the drilling ban. However, Senate Republicans have not accepted the proposal. Republicans insist that allowing more offshore drilling would help lower gas prices by increasing domestic oil consumption, but Democrats are resisting plans to lift the ban, claiming more drilling would have little impact on prices in the near future. Instead, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, and other Democrats have called on Bush to release oil from the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve to help lower prices rather than allowing for more areas of drilling. According to CNN, “Bush proposes releasing oil from the reserve and said Democrats should support measures that lift the drilling ban if they want to tap into the reserve.” To read the entire article from CNN, link here:
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written by maximus , July 30, 2008 Too little, too late. This type of agenda might have succeeeded had it been aggressively pursued after 9/11. But, it wasn't. And, now no one's listening to the lame duck with subterranean approval ratings. How did we get to this point where even the most obvious solution to the current energy crunch (increasing the supply of oil) can be ignored and ridiculed by the fools in Congress? We got there because Bush never had the ability or desire to articulate a coherent, conservative agenda for the country. He became our first mute chief executive. Instead, he adopted the Rove method of governance - coopt the opposition's philosophy to please and defeat them. So, Bush spent and spent and spent at a feverish rate in attempt to win the hearts and minds of liberals. He further increased federal control over our local schools. He approved pork-laden budgets. He shamelessly pandered to Mexicans and illegal aliens. And, he created one of the largest entitlements in history - the prescription medicine boondoggle. There was only one problem with this strategy - you can never spend enough or compromise your principles enough to win over a liberal. They are fanatic and relentless in their crusade for more government control of our lives. And they won't be satisfied with the type of socialism-lite that Bush gave them. Too little, too late One of the greatest opportunities to restore this country (a GOP president and GOP Congress) squandered and sacrificed at the altar of reelection. The result - a fractured and weakened GOP, a half-trillion dollar deficit and the Marxist Obama waiting in the wings.
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written by Ken Dickson This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it , August 01, 2008 this right winger agrees!...but that does not mean continuing to "fiddle while Rome burns"!...we need to drill as much as possible to stop as much bleeding as we can, now!...BHO will do anything he can to stop us, but he has not won yet!
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written by ROBERT PALMER , August 02, 2008 The drilling ban was implemented by an appropriations gimmic and kept alive under both Repuplican and Democratic administrations. All they have to do is restore the funds to the Interior Department in the appropriations process. That why no appropriations bills have yet passed this Session. Just do it. Write comment
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On Wednesday, President George W. Bush continued the Republicans’ full-court press on congressional Democrats to force a vote to lift a ban on offshore drilling. He called for the vote after meeting with his Cabinet at the White House.
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