[umgud]

Sadly, not much of this will be of any help. Fuel prices will remain high, 70% of the public will still want to drill and these same people will reelect the obstructionists in November.

[Bitsy]

Sadly, not much of this will be of any help. Fuel prices will remain high, 70% of the public will still want to drill and these same people will reelect the obstructionists in November.

Stop it bro, you’re bringing us down

[HKMk23]

70% of the public will still want to drill and these same people will reelect the obstructionists in November.

I don't share your pessimism; and I'm 30mi from San Fran, surrounded by LibNuts, so that's really saying something.

I hear enough grousing about the cost of fuel to know that it's NOT a partisan issue; that there are a substantial number of moderate and centrist Democrat voters out there who are also incensed by the antics of the Democrat contingent in Washington D.C.

I really believe that VISIBILITY is crucial to getting this into the forefront of the national conversation as the election looms in November.

IF enough people are out there "takin' it to the streets", there's NO way this issue will get shoved to the back burner, and there's NO way Pelosi, Reid, and their obstructionist cabal will be able to feign either ignorance, or higher knowledge. They WILL have to face the argument head-on, in public, and take a definite stance to either drill or not.

When they do, if this issue is given a high enough profile, they just won't be able to say "No" to drilling without slitting their own throats politically.

But the key is US, and our efforts to keep the fire hot, on this.

[aft_lizard]

Keeping it real huh?

[adorno]

70% of the public will still want to drill

Funny how when the shoe is on the other foot, the democrats are not listening to the will of the people.

It's not too long ago, and I believe they're still doing it, that the democrats were asking the president to listen to the will of the people and pull out of Iraq. And the number of people that the democrats were quoting was a slim majority. Now that the overwhelming majority of the people want the U.S. to drill for its own oil, the democrats want to pretend that they're deaf, or they're coming up with excuses, such as, they're "trying to save the planet".

This is not a simple majority, Pelosi,, this is a huge majority of Americans.

If republicans play their cards right, they can take back the congress this November; the house and the senate.