[FerdieMurphy]

A group of 24 “moderate” Republican congressmen mostly from North East states joined Democrats on November 9 in stripping the House Budget Bill of a provision opening ANWR to drilling after hordes of home-district “environmental” activists lobbied them at their Washington offices.

Gutless wonders!

[mlc9852]

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.

[saganite]

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.

[kellynla]

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

[Blood of Tyrants]

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.

[Dave Olson]

A group of 24 “moderate” Republican congressmen mostly from North East states joined Democrats

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.

[waverna]

Is there nothing the government/people of Alaska can do to force the issue? It is their state, after all.

[RightWhale]

The Inupiat oppose only offshore drilling, which is not currently technically feasible in the ANWR area.

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.

[funkywbr]

And here I thought what passes for Reps in the Senate were the gutless wonders.

[Stoat]

See Also:

Blogger "Danegerous" includes a pic of the 'pristine wilderness' in his columns today

. DANEgerus Weblog . Colonic Conservatism for those whose ignorance tilts Left

 

ZULU EnviroFascists 12718

Link rich explanation of "Environmentalist" Deceit on ANWR

By... DANEgerus Global Warming?!? E-Mail

The only "War for Oil" is the War on Oil by the SecularFundamentalists... Many in the media are busy asserting that Alaskan Natives oppose ANWR drilling and that drilling poses a grave danger to Alaskan caribou herds. Neither of these statements is true. ... The Inupiat oppose only offshore drilling, which is not currently technically feasible in the ANWR area. ... Leftists point to one of the very few native groups to oppose drilling—the Gwich’in—but do not note that they are located hundreds of miles south of ANWR on the other side of the Brooks Range. The majority of Gwich’in live in Canada. Another native group opposing oil drilling in ANWR is the native city of Point Hope, AK—700 miles from ANWR. The vast majority of Alaskan Native corporations support drilling as do the vast majority of Alaskans. ... Caribou herds in Alaska’s existing North Slope drilling areas have actually increased in size since drilling began. Caribou around the Prudhoe Bay oilfield increased from about 3,000 in the 1970s to over 32,000 today. The Porcupine herd, which occupies the ANWR areas currently blocked from drilling, decreased in the same period. If they were truly concerned about the caribou, logically the Sierra Club should be demanding more drilling, not less. Same old Watermelons, Green on the Outside, Red on the inside: Their agenda is revealed in the “Earth Charter”, endorsed by the Sierra Club and many other so-called environmentalists, which reads: "the dominant patterns of production and consumption are causing environmental devastation.” In other words, they want to destroy the free enterprise system and replace it with a system that “Promote(s) the equitable distribution of wealth within nations and among nations” – in other words, socialism. In order to destroy free enterprise, the eco-socialists are using false arguments about Alaskan natives, false images of life in ANWR and false claims about the effect of oil drilling on wildlife. Their real goal and its affect on the day-to-day life of millions of humans is contained in the preamble to the Earth Charter which reads: “when basic needs have been met, human development is primarily about being more, not having more.”

 

[satchmodog9]

Maybe we should send the RINO herd to ANWR.