Posted on 11/15/2005 7:00:29 AM PST by FerdieMurphy
Gutless wonders!
I was so mad when I read they took ANWR off the table. What good does it do to elect Republicans who behave exactly like Democrats? Should make every one of them do without their cars for a couple of months if they think our own source of oil isn't important.
Not gutless wonders. They are voting their constituents desires. The North East is the last bastion of the old Republican party and anyone from that region who is an elected Republican should be viewed as a Democrat. That means of course that the Republicans do not have a true majority in either the Senate or the House.
Bingo.
And probably never will have again.
and why Dennis Hastert hasn't taken these 24 RINO's to the woodshed is a mystery to me.
in fact if Hastert is truly the Speaker of the House; he should grow a spine and take the ENTIRE HOUSE TO THE WOODSHED!
American troops are dying daily fighting a war while these clowns in DC sit on their hands and we continue to purchase crude oil from the Middleast???
Time for Congress to decide whose side they are on!
Semper Fi,
Kelly
After watching them behave like Democrats with the budget, open up the borders and fail to secure our energy future I don't believe I'll be voting for them again.
If other conservatives sit on their hands in 2006 and that means minority status, in name as well as fact, then the message will have been sent loud and clear.
It helps to restate the obvious at times for those who aren't paying attention.
Don't forget that the LSM is putting out videos of kayakers going down rushing streams and mountains and herds of caribou when they show "ANWR" when in truth the area to be drilled in looks more like a frozen Walmart parking lot and there are few if any animals around and definitely no tourists.
It would be nice if an outgoing oil executive held a new conference, pulled and Ayn Rand on them, and said, "Here's a shovel. If you all are so damn smart, you figure how to get oil out of the ground and turn it into gasoline. I quit."
Its baffling how some of the coldest states in the country keep voting people into office who make it harder for them to get the fuel they need to heat their homes.
Is there nothing the government/people of Alaska can do to force the issue? It is their state, after all.
A gravel pad would be constructed offshore. This has been done in Prudhoe Bay and is a large project but not difficult. Construction is done in winter when the ground is frozen, as well as the sea, and heavy equipment--front-end loaders, bulldozers and scrapers--can move freely without disturbing the muck of summer.
That would be too much.
And here I thought what passes for Reps in the Senate were the gutless wonders.
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I'm about as 'moderate' as it gets as far as environmental issues are concerned but I do not understand why we shouldn't drill there. It okay to exploit the environment in other areas (often times in more sensitive ecosystems) where environmental regulation is much less but we can't do it while doing it the right way. Pure hipocracy! Unless you consume 0 oil you have no right to criticize drilling.
Not one.
Offshore drilling often does more to relieve the pressure that causes natural seeps than it is a threat to beaches and tide pools. Cabrillo described the coast of California off Santa Barbara as black with oil. The Chumash tribe used to seal their boats with it.
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