Posted on 08/01/2008 11:43:33 PM PDT by doug from upland
$10 Gas Doesn't Change Dem Senator's Mind on Oil Drilling By Noel Sheppard (Bio | Archive) August 1, 2008 - 17:03 ET
There was a rather extraordinary confrontation on the Senate floor Thursday involving offshore oil drilling that got very little press coverage.
Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kent.) tried to get Democrats to vote on a measure that would open up such drilling if the price of gasoline reached a certain level.
Although the "bidding" eventually reached $10 a gallon, Colorado's Ken Salazar continually objected.
As reported by the Salt Lake Tribune Friday (video embedded right):
In back-and-forth bickering on the Senate floor Thursday, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell attempted to force Democrats to vote on a measure opening up coastal waters for drilling when gas reached $4.50, $5 or even $7.50 a gallon.
"If $5-gallon gasoline isn't an emergency, I have to ask what is an emergency?" McConnell said.
"It's a phantom solution," countered Sen. Ken Salazar, D-Colo, noting that such drilling would not affect gas prices in the short term.
Oddly, Google news and LexisNexis searches produced little coverage of this incident. Isn't it newsworthy that Democrats wouldn't expand drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf even if gasoline reached $10 a gallon?
I guess not.
Of COURSE not!
$10 a gallon gas is exactly what the Dims WANT!
All of that puts the U.S. in a position that war for oil or
complete economic collapse will be our only choices.
You can't frustrate every source of domestic energy
without consequences. Our enemies will blackmail us
to the extent that we are vulnerable to blackmail.
The Democrats are leading us into a real war for oil.
A war we won't have the energy to fight.
ping for later
I hate that this commie idiot is one of my Senators. He is also 100% pro-illegal alien.
I keep hearing the liberals say that we won’t see a drop of oil for ten years if we start drilling. I’m sure glad that when Kennedy called for sending a man to the Moon in 10 years that no one had that attitude.
Yeah, it was a brilliant setup, and Salazar walked into it like a fool. I bet he won’t forget that little lesson any time soon.
BTTT
Perfect logic for the democrat Party, which itself is an empty Gas Tank.
Perfect logic for the democrat Party, which itself is an empty Gas Tank.
“$10 gas doesn’t change dem senator’s mind...”
just looking at his smug, idiotic, adolescent, lock-step demeanor is nauseating.
to think that his subversion of congressional law-making capability is taking the u.s. to the brink of catastrophe is absolutely maddening. (nothing but a bunch of teenage-like scu&bags selling out to an international agenda.)
That's assuming he thinks that he's wrong in any way, shape, or form. I'm not so hopeful.
$10 a gallon gas is exactly what the Dims WANT!
Be careful what you wish for.....the quote “let them eat cake” comes to mind, and we know what happened then to that bunch of elitist snobs who denied the people necessities.
You’re absolutely right. I, too, am embarassed that he’s one of my senators.
bump!
Too bad salazar’s family didn’t burro it back across the newly drawn Mexican border following the Hidalgo Mexican American War treaty.
No one should compremise with the Democrats.
The look in Salazar’s eyes as he objected was priceless.
Caught in the trap with cheese hanging from his mouth.
You need to bombard Salazar’s office with calls and organized a drive to get him out of office. This guy is a moron.
Bookmark
Didn’t he run as a conservative?
Yes, Salazar did run with a conservative bent.
But like all Dims he was hiding and only brought his left-wing, pro-illegal alien, anti-energy independence ideology out of the bag after he was elected.
I have let Salazar know what I think in no uncertain terms before. I get a boiler plate response every time. I probably will continue to call and e-mail him but I don’t think he cares. He is a moron and he is a very committed moron to an extreme left agenda.
It’s not a good sign for the country when CO elects someone as far left as Kennedy to the Senate. I don’t know for certain but I think he managed it by making lots of promises to the agricultural sector.
"Fi fitty fi fitty gimme fi fitty ... got fi fitty who will gimme seven? ... gimme seven gimme seven gimme seven ... seven dollah there ... who will gimme eight? ... gimme eight gimme eight gimme eight ... who will gimme ten? ... gimme ten gimme ten gimme ten dollah now gimme ten gimme ten SOLD! to the idjit biddin' 'gainst hisself!!!
It would make a great campaign add.
Don't know about you, but that strikes me as a very good reason to get the show on the road.
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