McCain deserts Palin again on oil drilling in Arctic refuge

McClatchy ^ | 2009-06-09 | Erika Bolstad

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WASHINGTON — Remember back to September, when Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was a newly minted vice-presidential candidate and she was asked by ABC's Charlie Gibson about drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and her split with her running mate, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.

At the time, she told Gibson: "We'll agree to disagree, but I'm gonna keep pushing that, and I think, eventually, we're all gonna come together on that one."

Apparently Palin wasn't persuasive enough. Tuesday, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee shot down Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski's effort to open up ANWR to directional drilling. The sole Republican to vote against the proposal? McCain.

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[Chgogal]

McCain is an idiot.

[coconutt2000]

McCain is a debit to our Party.

[cranked]

Palin, Shift to Independent Please, kkthx PING!

[Always Right]

There is no rational reason for not drilling there.

[ZULU]

I hate the sight of that miserable worm McCain.

Did he win the primary in Arizona or is that next year?

[Texas Eagle]

Whew. That was close. And to think we almost elected this guy President.

[LibFreeOrDie]

What a putz.

[Paladin2]

Palin should stick a fork in Juan.

[AlexW]

McStain needs to dry up and blow away.
Whats left of the Republican party is already
on its knees, thanks to the RINOS like the Stain.

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[Paladin2]

The ‘rat control of Congress is the real restriction on drilling here and now. I’ve heard that it will be 10 yrs before we get any oil anyway.

[rabscuttle385]

Next year. And I hope Simcox...or Deakin...or Hayworth, if he chooses to run, beats the crap out of him.

[Texas Eagle]

I’ve heard that it will be 10 yrs before we get any oil anyway.

Yeah. That's what they were saying 10 years ago.

[Sarah Barracuda]

John McCain is a sack of horse crap. I donated for the first time in my life to a campaign..only after he chose Sarah. Now this sack of crap votes against drilling, something Sarah has been fighting for for years. I know Sarah will never say a bad thing about McCain because she feels some kind of obligation to him for selecting her..but I wonder in private, when no one is around to tape record her or hear her, what she really thinks of this ass clown

[svcw]

McCain is a jackass. (yea either one)

[shooter223]

[doc1019]

There is no rational reason for not drilling there.

Eliminates McCain’s opinion. ;-)

[popdonnelly]

Congress doing the bidding of its environmentalist masters. This country and its government have been going downhill for the last forty years.

[MissouriConservative]

Somehow this does not surprise me. McCain has always been an idiot and now he is proving that beyond a shadow of a doubt.

It’s no wonder his daughter acts like she does, her gene pool was not dug that deep or filled with clean water. In fact, I’d say her pool is loaded with stagnant water.

[plain talk]

Whew. That was close. And to think we almost elected this guy President.

I would do anything to be whining about drilling in anwar and illegal aliens compared to what we are facing now.

[fkabuckeyesrule]

That’s Ok we don’t need to drill for oil. I’m sure there are lots and lots of nice people in the world who will sell us oil for a fair price. Donchathink?

[Paladin2]

Wouldn’t that make it 20 years?

[angkor]

>>>> I’ve heard that it will be 10 yrs before we get any oil anyway. <<<<<<

The distance from the ANWR fields to the existing Alaska Pipeline is about 100 miles.

The 700 mile long Pipeline was built in three years start to finish.

So let’s speculate that the new 100 mile “feeder” can be built and connected in 6 to 12 months, plus permit and planning time (another 6 to 12 months?).

“10 years” seems a bit excessive.

[Texas Eagle]

I would do anything to be whining about drilling in anwar and illegal aliens compared to what we are facing now.

Sheeyit. The RAT Congress would've passed everything under McCain that they've passed under Ubama. You think McCain woulda had the balls to veto anything the RAT Congress sent to his desk?

I don't.

The only difference between McCain and Ubama is a birth certificate.

[Texas Eagle]

Wouldn’t that make it 20 years?

Yes. And 10 years from now when they say it won't produce oil for at least 109 years, that will make it 30 years.

Or would that make it 40 years?

[Paladin2]

Just kidding. The way things are going, my grandkids won’t see any oil from there for at least 50 yr.

[VastRWCon]

McCain, kiss my ass, and tell your daughter to STFU while you at it stop pretending to be a conservative and STFU as well.

Anyway, I voted for Sarah Palin NOT you McLame.

[vaudine]

Ditto that! McCain and all the others are TOTALLY unreasonable. While we work on alternatives, petroleum is IT. Besides gas, look at all the things made from it. To NOT drill our own resources will send our finances to others; it will NOT save the planet; and when alternatives come in, we will be sitting on billions that could have been used to save our economy and supply good paying jobs.

If we ever have another 911, and I pray we don't, let it hit the capital and jar some of these people loose from their set ways.

vaudine

[SoldierDad]

No, what we got is tenfold worse.

[pointsal]

McCain is a scooter-seeker and an onery one to boot!

[Texas Eagle]

No, what we got is tenfold worse.

Yeah. Right.

Will the blinders never come off?

[Prole]

McCain, Powell, Gingrich, and the rest are only going to cost us election after election with this BS.

There are over 300 million people living in this Nation, and we need fuel to continue our progress.

Anything less than enhanced oil exploration and nuclear power plants is going to result in a totally inefficient and unacceptable lack of resources.

Solar power and wind mills ain't gonna cut it for over 300 million people.

[Prole]

McCain belongs in a retirement home, not in a position of responsibility where he is affecting our future with his total lack of realistic goals.

[Cheetahcat]

McQueeg is a bit confused here What he deems Maverick is in reality Traitor-ism to the Americans.

[Czar]

"McCain, Powell, Gingrich, and the rest are only going to cost us election after election with this BS."

Agree completely. McCain and Powell are beyond salvaging. What little hope I had for Newt has been drained away with his latest statement on "inclusiveness". All three are utter losers.

[Melchior]

McCain is going to stick around if he can; he plans to turn his senate seat over to his daughter when she comes of age.

[Prole]

Precisely, and don't forget that Gingrich also took a shot at Rush recently.

He went on a rant on MSLSD, and referred to Rush as "irrational" because Rush wants Obama's push for America's destruction to FAIL.

Gingrich is a sure loser in any future election because Conservatives know full well that he will say anything to anyone so long as he stays popular.

He is washed up, and needs to go away.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Glk98T4eyq4

[q_an_a]

Someone in the Republican party should take a picture of a S. Cal wind farm with hundreds of turbines ruining the view of a valley near Palm Springs - then they should ask, "If windmills can cover the landscape why not a few quiet gas or oil wells?" If a they took a picture of a soalr farm in the deseart they could ask, "Why are these soalr panels OK but an oil well that takes of 10% is not OK?"

The problem is that Republican leaders are out of touch with working people, so they can't figure out the correct message.

[Chgogal]

You are 100% correct. Solar and wind mills are interruptible sources of energy. You need redundant sources to meet peak day requirements. By definition, the “environmental” sources are the more costly to the ratepayer.

[SoldierDad]

Not that I would want McCain as President, but you think that Obama is better? You prefer a supporter of Islam?

[Texas Eagle]

Not that I would want McCain as President, but you think that Obama is better?

No. I think they're both sides of the same coin.

You prefer a supporter of Islam?No. You think McCain would speak out against Islam? Mr. "C-c-can't we all j-j-jest get along" himself?

I'm not wasting one of the limited and valuable seconds of my life defending a sack of crap like McCain.

[SoldierDad]

I’m not defending him either - I’m only pointing out just how much worse the winner of that very bad election is.

[Texas Eagle]

You prefer a supporter of Islam?

And another thing: By not supporting the drilling of oil in Alaska, McCain is, in effect, supporting Islam in the sense that Islamic states like Saudi Arabia, Iran, United Arab Emirates, etc., hold us over the proverbial barrel.

Yeah, yeah. I know we get most of our oil from Canadia and Mehico and all that jazz but, still, my point is McCain would do nothing appreciably different than Ubama has done.

That's right. And I include releasing detainees onto American soil and releasing photos of intelligence gathering tactics and grandstanding on waterboarding, etc.

[Prole]

Yup.

Like we have discussed, McCain, Powell, Gingrich and the rest of the RINOs are only going to continue to cost us our future.

They will all continue to lose, and lose badly. This is because in 2012, the RINOs won't have the money or popular support to even face Obama, let alone defeat him.

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ou prefer a supporter of Islam?

As I recall, McCain was an avid supporter of the KLA [1, 2, 3]—a loose affiliate of al Qaeda [4]—during the Kosovo intervention under Clinton. In fact, he was even endorsed by a group of pro-"greater" Albania lobbyists with links to the KLA, al-Qaeda, and drug trafficking networks [5].

Both of them supported Islamofascists, as far as I am concerned.

[Texas Eagle]

I’m not defending him either - I’m only pointing out just how much worse the winner of that very bad election is.

I apologize. I didn't mean to accuse you of defending McCain. I guess I'm still pissed off at the way he ran his campaign and hung Gov. Palin out to dry then and now.

I concede that McCain would not be quite as bad as Ubama but I contend that he would not have been all that much better.

[rabscuttle385]

I’m not defending him either - I’m only pointing out just how much worse the winner of that very bad election is.

Worse?

(snorts)

What can be worse than opposing domestic drilling (de facto funding of Islamic terrorists via Islamic oil-exporting states) and arming al-Qaeda terrorists (KLA), as well as supporting the use of the United States armed forces in support of al-Qaeda terrorists?

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