Memo To Rep. Jay Inslee:
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Posted on 03/23/2009 12:03:27 PM PDT by kellynla
The ban on offshore oil drilling that expired last September will be restored by “any means necessary,” Rep. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.), who serves on both the House Committee on Natural Resources and the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, told CNSNews.com on Friday.
Inslee, who participated in a conference entitled "Planning for a Secure Energy Future” sponsored by the Washington Post, also recommended a ban on future drilling in the arctic, where he says there is a “gold rush” for oil uncovered by melting ice caps.
But Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.), who serves on the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming and also attended the conference, told CNSNews.com that offshore oil drilling should provide an integral part of American energy and recommended the Interior Department begin distributing offshore oil drilling leases.
Back in June, President George W. Bush lifted an 18-year-old executive order banning new offshore drilling that had been put in place by his father, President George H.W. Bush, and extended by President Bill Clinton.
At the end of September 2008, Congress – then in the midst of crafting a $700-billion financial bailout and facing nationwide pressure to lower gas prices and remove the ban – allowed a 26-year-old moratorium of offshore oil drilling that had been annually attached to the Interior Department funding bill, to expire.
Since then, the Bureau of Land Management has allowed bidding on leases for oil exploration. But some Democratic members of congress have indicated they would like to see the ban restored.
The moratorium on offshore oil drilling “will be reinstated,” Inslee told CNSNews.com, but he did not specify whether he meant the executive branch moratorium or the one from the Interior Department.
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All these people against drilling on the pacific shelf should ask themselves what terrible things has drilling in the Gulf Of Mexico done to the ecosystem or economies of the gulf states?
Translation: Government face and control will be restored by any means necessary.
Big Brother doesn’t want it known that it was wrong about oil and the RATs don’t want their “green” plan to control America to be shot down before it can be shoved down our throats.
“We are off the Pacific coast, and there would be a civil war,” said Inslee. “There would be something like a secessionist movement if there was a serious attempt to [permanently] remove the moratorium.”
Don’t Worry , congressman Inslee.....Civil War is coming and it will be anything but civil......
DUmb Idiots .. DemocRat support cartel against dirlling available resources domestically..
The GoP can kick itself in the arse for not riding dirty when they had the reins in their hands..
Any means necessary huh? Has a nice ring to it.
Somebody needs to audit Jay's financial records, but first spread the word he has taken money from OPEC nations.
Just when you thought they couldn't get any dumber.
Maybe Inslee forgot that Washington (and Oregon too) is a red state with a strip of blue along the I-5 corridor. We have them surrounded.
What melting ice caps? This is news to the scientific community.
Memo To Rep. Jay Inslee:
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before the november election i had a bumper sticker:
>dems won’t drill oil.
just north of los angeles, in slow and go, a guy in $100,000+
mercedes pulls ahead of me on the right,
and spits across the front of my car.
I would not promise that all our energy would come from internal to our borders. I don’t see that as necessary (to reach 100%).
But decreasing our dependence from where we are today is the right thing to do.
We are going to spend the money for our energy. We should spend more of those dollars here at home.
Obama that the reason for our anger is the rapid increase in prices, not the prices themselves.
So as gasoline prices rise, we shall see $4 gasoline soon again.
“We are off the Pacific coast, and there would be a civil war,” said Inslee. “There would be something like a secessionist movement if there was a serious attempt to [permanently] remove the moratorium.”
And it is the Inslee’s of this world that are making secession and civil war more and more likely.
“Don’t Worry , congressman Inslee.....Civil War is coming and it will be anything but civil......”
I hope to God it is true. We only have to get rid or 545 crooked bums. It should be very quick.
Who will volunteer for the job of Madame Defarge?
When will applications be opened for the job?
If you missed it:
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545 PEOPLE
By Charlie Reese
Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.
Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?
Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?
You and I don’t propose a federal budget. The president does.
You and I don’t have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations.
The House of representatives does.
You and I don’t write the tax code, Congress does..
You and I don’t set fiscal policy, Congress does.
You and I don’t control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.
One hundred senators, 535 congressmen, one president, and nine Supreme Court justices 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.
I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.
I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a president to do one cotton-picking thing. I don’t care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator’s responsibility to determine how he votes.
Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.
What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits. The president can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.
The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House? Nancy Pelosi. She is the leader of the majority party. She and fellow House members, not the president, can approve any budget they want. If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.
It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million can not replace 545 people who stand convicted — by present facts — of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can’t think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.
If the tax code is unfair, it’s because they want it unfair.
If the budget is in the red, it’s because they want it in the red.
If the Army & Marines are in IRAQ , it’s because they want them in IRAQ.
If they do not receive social security, but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it’s because they want it that way.
There are no insoluble government problems.
Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like “the economy,” “inflation,” or “politics” that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.
Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.
They, and they alone, have the power.
They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses.
Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees.
We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!
Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper
They’d be left swimming in that Pacific within an hour if they want to play rough...they are nothing but playground bullies that haven’t had realization sink in that everyone is waiting for the right time to take chunk out of their asses.
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