Politics, not principles, behind Pelosi's turnabout on oil drilling (WORTHLESS NAN FEELS THE PINCH!)

Deseret News ^ | 8/19/08 | Dan K. Thomasson

[Libloather]

Politics, not principles, behind Pelosi's turnabout on oil drilling
By Dan K. Thomasson
Scripps Howard News Service
Published: Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2008 12:45 a.m. MDT

WASHINGTON — Never let it be said that Nancy Pelosi isn't principled. Actually, her main principle seems to be that when politics dictate, give up the principles and go with the politics.

So the speaker of the House has decided that a vote on drilling off the nation's coasts might have to happen despite her year of adamant opposition that was still in place only a few weeks ago before Congress left for its August recess. But that was before it looked as though Republicans were succeeding in tagging her Democratic Party with intransigence in solving the nation's energy problems and before polls clearly revealed a dramatic lessening of public opposition to drilling on the Continental Shelf.

In a weekly Democratic radio address to the nation, Pelosi said the House would consider the expanded offshore drilling as part of a broader energy bill. It was a position that Sen. Barack Obama had earlier adopted in an about-face brought on by skyrocketing oil prices. The soon-to-be officially anointed Democratic presidential nominee also said drilling for oil and gas along the Pacific and Atlantic coasts and in the Gulf of Mexico off of Florida might have to be included in a comprehensive energy policy.

"We hope our Republican colleagues will join in a bipartisan effort, not only to increase domestic supply but also to help consumers and to protect the environment," Pelosi said...

[Libloather]

Blue Dog RATS are nipping at her heels. She'll cave.

[pennboricua]

has she sold 5,000 books yet?

[Salvation]

 

 

Contact your Congress critters to let them know that you are tired of high gas prices.

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[oust the louse]

Can anyone tell me where Dems are getting the talking point that it will take 10 years to get the oil to market if we drill now? IS this a true statement?....(I highly doubt it but looking to find out)

[Libloather]

Can anyone tell me where Dems are getting the talking point that it will take 10 years to get the oil to market if we drill now?

Drill it - for the children - no?

[reformedliberal]

I have read here that 7 1/2 of those years are due to paperwork/permits. Lawsuits probably increase the time, as well.

Back in the day, we were told it would take 15 years to complete the TransAlaska pipeline. It didn’t.

[DelphiUser]

I believe that while testifying before a committee one of the oil companies said that in anwar where there is no infrastructure, it would take ten years at the outside to build and be at “full production”. that is where ten years came from. I also believe they said in the gulf it would take two years.

the democrats of course, choose the time frame that fits their politics best.

[maggief]

Turn out the lights ...

[thulldud]

the democrats of course, choose the time frame that fits their politics best.

And since most of them have never had a job where they were required to produce anything marketable, they have no idea what productive people can accomplish when the brakes are off.

[matchgirl]

I don’t know where those statistics are coming from either, but I have read within the past month I believe, that many ranchers in North Dakota and Montana have become millionaires within the last year from royalties paid by oil comapanies to drill on their land.

I have not heard anything to rebut the Dem’s statistics, but if true, Republicans should be all over this.