[kabar]

Look, the bottom line is that the 2009 page Omnibus Bill released in the middle of the night is a huge sellout of the American worker and conservative fiscal principles. The Dems got all they wanted and more and Ryan and the GOPe consider the removal of the oil export ban to be a major victory. It is actually a sellout to special interests. I have no doubt that the oil industry played a major role in writing that part of the legislation. Follow the money.

Exporting the surplus expensive oil and importing the cheaper oil makes a lot of sense, lower US prices, higher US profits and more US jobs.

More crapola meant to defend the indefensible. The Reps helped Clinton pass NAFTA using the same kinds of language. How did that turn out?

[thackney]

conservative fiscal principles

Conservative fiscal principles do not include telling private business and private owners who they are allowed to sell their products to.

I agree there was sellouts by the conservatives, but this wasn't an example of them. The extension of the wind and solar subsidies were.