Bush Outfoxes Congress Again

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[mnehring]

 It was a Friday, the last day of October and four days before the presidential election of 1992 when ignominious special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh handed down a scurrilous indictment of Cap Weinberger, former Secretary of Defense.  The ensuing media explosion dominated the news until election day and was a final humiliation of the beleaguered Bush administration enmeshed in a campaign grossly mismanaged by James Baker, undermined by Ross Perot and outsmarted by Bill Clinton.  When it happens to your own father, you don’t easily forget the value of timing.

Hence the White House announcement yesterday concerning drilling on government controlled property.  The annual renewal of the ban on offshore drilling was in no small irony the product of the President’s father’s administration and hailed by his younger brother, Jeb.  Crude oil hovered around $20/bbl. and Saddam had yet to roll his tanks into Kuwait City. 

President Bush has put the Democrats in Congress on the hotseat with this move and the deadline to annually renew their own ban expires exactly 36 days before the election.  They will be forced to vote within the ever-shrinking short term memory of the electorate and their attempts to justify their actions, however they vote, are going to be vastly entertaining and most likely publicly embarassing.

John Hinderaker, of Power Line, quotes the President of the Institute for Energy Research, Thomas Pyle, who writes, ” Most Americans understand the law of supply and demand, but they may not know that America is the only developed nation in the world that restricts access to its own offshore energy resources, or that an annual vote in Congress is required to continue that policy. ”

I agree with Hinderaker the Democrats will probably cave to not renewing the ban in hopes their fallback strategy of encouraging and abetting the obstruction of exploration and drilling will be successfully fought by the formidable establishment of environmentalists and their lawyers in the courts of the United States. But the pressure is on to change the legal landscape and put the anti-drilling factions on the defense. It was a very shrewd and calculated political move on the part of George Bush and he deserves the credit he is due.

 

[bray]

You are so cutting edge. “I hated President Bush before hating Bush was popular.” How courageous. Get lost, who needs cowards like you.

Pray for W and Our Troops

[mo]

Better protection against terrorism...one well-planned attack could easily wipe out Capitol Hill...but a decentralized Congress, each ensconced in their own District office, would easily and cheaply remain intact and impervious. Plus its easier for us to keep a close on on what they’re doing with whom.

[MeekOneGOP]

President Bush has put the Democrats in Congress on the hotseat with this move and the deadline to annually renew their own ban expires exactly 36 days before the election. They will be forced to vote within the ever-shrinking short term memory of the electorate and their attempts to justify their actions, however they vote, are going to be vastly entertaining and most likely publicly embarassing.

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Apply the PRESSURE !!!

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