This photo, released by the US Fish and Wildlife Service, shows the coastal plain within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in Alaska. The US Senate narrowly approved opening ANWR to energy exploration.(AFP/HO-FWS/File)
Posted on 03/16/2005 12:42:35 PM PST by mattdono
Getting past the odd innuendo of Massachusetts Democrat Ed Markey’s press release accusing the GOP of trying to “ram” ANWR into law through “backdoor maneuvers,” we find his opposition comes straight from above:
“The American people believe there should be some places on this earth left the way the Almighty made them in the first place. When we finally meet our Maker, we are not going to be asked our position on evolution or the Big Bang. We are going to be asked about what we did to protect the resources we were given. The Congress still has time to pull back from this folly, and we must do everything we can to see that it does.”
Meanwhile, the attempt to strike ANWR from budget legislation failed today, 49-51.
Which is why the Republicans reduced the oil drilling region from the 1,000,000 acres that a Democrat president, Jimmy Carter, and a Democrat congress explicitly set aside for this purpose, to only 1,900 acres (and all of that barren coastal plain) leaving the vast majority of ANWR pristine and undisturbed.
But if that's a mistake we could always go back to the Carter plan....
So Markey's saying there's a religious test to being an American?
When did Markey get his Senate seat? Who cares what the anti-nuclear leftist Markey thinks about energy policy? Not me.
So there's no death or disease in ANWR? Then I guess there's no oil under there after all.
Exactly!
What bugs me about all of the left's ANWR dialog is the hyperbole.
Yah know... if I believed what they believe, that millions of hectares of unspoiled beautiful nature would be defiled by loose pouring of oil, miles of asphalt, and pumping of untold billions of tons of crap into the air... I'd agree with them.
The truth is, and what needs to get out into the common dialog is this: Oil can be tapped and taken from the ANWR without any significant impact on the environment, such as it is. The footprint necessary to do all of this is pitifully tiny. None of it would impact the neighborhood in the slightest.
Why is it so hard to have a discussion about the real impacts of drilling, instead of all this fargin' hyperbole? Yeesh.
Huh? Who are the Dems trying to appeal to with this nonsense?
They seem to have forgotten that the leftists who support the enviro-nazi agenda HATE the Religious Right.
And with gas prices going through the roof, I doubt they will find many Americans opposed to drilling for OUR OWN OIL these days.
Not only is their timing terrible, but their target audience is as well. Idiots.
That's the great thing about not really standing for anything (that you can publicly state). Anything goes, as long as the slaveholder class wins.
This photo, released by the US Fish and Wildlife Service, shows the coastal plain within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in Alaska. The US Senate narrowly approved opening ANWR to energy exploration.(AFP/HO-FWS/File)
Looks like McCain is prepping to run against Hillary for the Democrat Party POTUS candidate in 2008.
Democrats = Folks who steadfastly will not be confused by the facts
MANIFEST DESTINY!!!
"We are going to be asked about what we did to protect the resources we were given."
Uh, no. If He asks us anything, He will be asking what we did to promote Him. So in effect he WILL be asking about our position on evolution.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
It's not nice to fool with "mother democrat"!
The wrath of freedom may be struck upon you!
DemoSTUPIDs. Standing logic, reason, and reality on it's head. Since 1933.
For perspective:
Map of ANWR with drilling area in scale.
http://www.anwr.org/docs/CloseupofareaIII.pdf
Only 2000 acres of oil development footprint in a 19 million acre area.
Uh, no. If He asks us anything,
Ithink it might be, What did you do to protect the unborn?
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