President Bush to Lift Executive Ban on Offshore Drilling (It's your turn Congress!)

fox news ^ | 7/14/2008 | fox news

[Halls]

Well, this is a big step. Let’s hope Congress acts. Maybe we need to start calling Congress more and get on them about it they will act as well.

[kevinm13]

That is great news. Lets see what the Dimwits in Congress do now.

[theDentist]

Someone in the West Wing finally woke up?

[tobyhill]

the original article is AP so I will not post it but hopefully the Fox News Title is the message that Congress needs to hear.

[Jeff Chandler]

Seven years late.

[mouse1]

Flood Congress With Your Calls Tuesday July 15th

Tell your friends family neighbors and coworkers
enough is enough
This is America - The greatest country on earth
We should not have to chose between gas or food; gas or paying the bills; gas or prescriptions
Gov Palin is pleading with us to let Alaska do its part
(Gov Palin has an 84% approval rating and congress 9%)

CALL CONGRESS TUESDAY JULY 15th
DRILL HERE - DRILL NOW!!!

[STONEWALLS]

I just called the White House and said thank you Mr. President! ....try it yourself @ 202-456-1111...we’ve got to let President Bush know how much the American public wanted this.

[tobyhill]

The problem now is that about 50% of the American people are dumber than a box of rocks so they will think that drilling is now allowed while forgetting that the congress has to also lift the ban and I don’t expect the MSM to tell the truth on it.

[Wil H]

I just called the White House and said thank you Mr. President! ....try it yourself @ 202-456-1111...we’ve got to let President Bush know how much the American public wanted this.

And tell him to lift the coal mining ban in Utah while he's at it. It was imposed by clinton as payoff to the Riadys.

[svcw]

dumber than a box of rocks I think you give them to much credit.

[hoe_cake]

“I just called the White House and said thank you Mr. President! ....try it yourself @ 202-456-1111.”

Done. Thanks for the phone number.

[DJ Taylor]

We need to keep a close eye on this because we are about to find out who in congress is bought and paid for by Arab oil.

[Post Toasties]

Good for George W. Bush.

I fully expect the Demotard Congress to try to shut this initiative down, meanwhile demagoguing the issue for all it's worth. Democrats are basically working (and have been working for the last 30 years) to make the USA as dependent on foreign oil as possible.

[tobyhill]

The MSM is trying to make the housing issue the main issue but in reality it only deals with less than 2% of all home owners. The main issue is gas and when the Rats finally get called out for their obstruction to increasing our energy supply they will be down for the count being that it's hurting 95% of all Americans. The MSM knows this and are probably planning a full court press to mitigate the damage to the Rats.

[Devilinbaggypants]

Great Idea! It’s out of the prez’s hands now. He’s given congress the opportunity to be heroes...and right before the elections. Surely they’ll have to go along with it now...or will they?!

[Orange1998]

I was thinking the same. Why Now? Seems Bush positions us over the barrel and then acts.

[Orange1998]

I may get flamed for this but Bush acting after the crisis is not leadership. He should have done this long ago. I also think if Bush was a true leader this war with Iraq would have already been over. After all he is the Commander in Chief.

[Ben Ficklin]

As part of the GOM Energy Security Act of 2006, the republican congress extended the congressional moratorium on all tracts east of the Military Mission Line in the Eastern Planning area to 2022.

[papasmurf]

Cool, I just called and thank the President for putting on his big boy pants. :)