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

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

[Guenevere]

..could he close the borders while he's feeling so magnanimous?....just asking

[Southack]

Federal leases are one thing, but not everything offshore is federal, nor is everything unleased.

And the ban on *drilling* offshore for oil expires on September 30 of this year.

So if you’ve got an existing federal offshore lease, or if you are drilling in state waters, you are good to go at the end of September.

[Southack]

"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."

You **should** get flamed for your comments because what you are doing is criticizing a victory instead of celebrating it.

Defeatists and trolls do one, winners another.

[NRG1973]

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.

The president has constitutional powers to direct teh miltary in time of war, but the oil crisis is not a war. Its a domestic issue and the Constitution favors Congress in that area.

[NRG1973]

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.

The president has constitutional powers to direct teh miltary in time of war, but the oil crisis is not a war. Its a domestic issue and the Constitution favors Congress in that area.

[NRG1973]

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.

The president has constitutional powers to direct teh miltary in time of war, but the oil crisis is not a war. Its a domestic issue and the Constitution favors Congress in that area.

The reality is that at $2 per gallon most Americans want to be "green"...but at $4 per gallon their priorities change. The president couldn't do much until the price of gasoline got so high as to make people reconsider their priorities.

[Orange1998]

How can you claim victory when the President with a stoke of a pen do his part. It always seems Bush is behind the curve. This country needs leadership in a big way unfortunately Bush is a lame duck.

[Southack]

What you’re preaching is fanaticism.

In contrast, I’m pointing out that we’ve scored a victory in the battle for offshore drilling.

And that’s not our only win, though I doubt that you could name any of our hundreds of such victories.

[Orange1998]

With all the advisors reporting to Bush he should had been aware the oil crisis to come. After all oil is his background.

[Orange1998]

I doubt that you could name any of our hundreds of such victories.

I only count one Victory and its when we win the war. All else is noise. We need a leader who is focused on the war not one who is considered the longest vacation President.

President Bush has disappointed many conservatives.

[Southack]

"President Bush has disappointed many conservatives [fanatics]."

There. I fixed it for you.

[Orange1998]

I am glad your so happy with Bush performance. If you think he has made conservatives happy then you will be pleased with four years of Obama.

[Southack]

Don't be naive. Obama will be lucky to best Hillary at the Dems' Denver convention next month...and he's boxed in on no-oil-drilling, retreat-from-Iraq, no-public-campaign-financing, telecom-immunity, and a host of other issues.

And yes, Bush has done a grand job for conservatives by deploying our national missile defenses, banning partial birth abortion, lifting the ban on offshore drilling, spreading the original Texas Amber Alert nationwide, disarming Libya of its WMDs, lowering our taxes, and bringing India into our global alliance.