%This is the party line. Every Rat on Fox news repeats it verbatim. Yesterday when pressed by Cavuto to state specifically which area was not being drilled the Congress critter could not and then repeated the talking point.
It was funny to see him exposed and tragic he didn’t know what he was talking about.
Thanks for posting this. I heard that exchange on Squawk box and had a gut feel that what Hoyer was saying was BS.
In Dec, 2006, as one of the GOP's last acts before the dems took control of Congress, the Domenici-Landrieu Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act was passed. This opened about 2 million acres in Lease Area 181 to drilling.
I saw this piece with Steny Hoyer on Thursday. Besides spewing lies about Republican positions (he stated as if it was fact that oil companies have the rights to drill lots of places but they choose to stick it to consumers and charge more by not drilling), he has a complicit CNBC talker Carlos Quintenilla (sp?) agreeing with his lies. Shameful for putting out lies, shameful for having the forum and media agree and shameful that the truth from a Republican perspective wasn’t presented.
If you were in the oil business and heard threats about ‘nationalizing’ your industry or a Windfall Profits Tax, would YOU increase production?
I wouldn’t work for free!
Today’s government seems to have forgotten it’s role in business affairs.
The progressives give us their plan, but we’re not listening.
Simple Principals of Democratic Socialism
Production for human use, not for profit.
Classless society where no person should exploit any other person.
Conservation of natural resources through sustainable production.
Changes in society and government should be made by free and open elections.
Widespread and full public education is essential to guarantee the equality of people.
People must have access to information and be allowed to communicate their ideas in order to make informed democratic decisions.
Public, collective ownership of the means of production and dis tribution and the democratic management thereof. (Not state ownership of every human enterprise)
Food, housing and health care are basic human rights and should be guaranteed to all.
Democratic socialism ought to be achieved democratically.
This is now the standard Rat talking point since I've heard Pelosi and Durbin say the exact same thing over the past two weeks. The GOP needs to hang this foolishness around the Rats' necks (but our guys won't for lack of testicular fortitude).
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
The other night someone on Hannity and Colmes said we had more oil in the Rockies than all of Saudi Arabia. Is this so?
If true, it would provide an even better argument in favor of leasing: take the oil companies' money for as many leases as possible, because (according to the D@mocrats) they won't bother to drill them anyway - and there would therefore be absolutely zero risk of any oil spills. Free money to the taxpayer, with zero risk!
What a bunch of jug heads...
I saw the interview with Steny over a CNBC feed. The second he made the comment “All they need to do is stick a straw in the ground”, I thought “LIER”.
What an idiot!
Latest RAT talking point. Look for Olbermann and Colmes to repeat it like parrots with a new word.