Wooo hooooo! We finally won on ANWR!!
In this undated photo provided by the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a female polar bear lays with her cubs in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. A sharply divided Senate on Wednesday, March 16, 2005 voted to open the ecologically rich Alaska wildlife refuge to oil drilling, delivering a major energy policy win for President Bush (news - web sites). (AP Photo/Arctic National Wildlife Refuge)
Major win indeed! Whew, the gas bills for that dang V-8 are killing me, hoping this eases prices a bit, and very soon.
I bet Hillary is seething. Condi's getting at least as big a reception in India as the Beaste did:
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Eight days, six countries, and a rock star welcome. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is making her first visit to Asia since moving into her offices at the State Department. And so far, the trip is the stuff of front-page photos and video headlines here.
After nearly 16-and-a-half hours of flying time, Rice stepped off the Boeing 757 after sunset on Tuesday to a platform filled with still and video photographers in New Delhi, the American ambassador to India waiting on the tarmac to show her to her car, and various local dignitaries eager to shake her hand.
When asked by a visiting reporter why all the fuss, given that it was already after dinner and dark to boot, a local embassy staffer said, “Well, it’s the only picture the Indian media will get of Rice today!” rest of story