Posted on 08/01/2008 4:07:50 PM PDT by Pinkbell
Obama is the most shallow candidate for president that I can ever remember.
He's also a new kind of candidate who won't say anything just to get elected. Even our pathetic excuse for a governor is now on board with drilling off the coast.
I think the Obamamessiah's poll numbers have a lot of people in his camp concerned. Good. The more we see him as an empty vessel the better our chances are of beating him. He's Xerox without the toner.
The democrats control what bills come to the floor. They have 90 days to stall and do nothing. Obama isn’t going to have to vote for anything before the election if the rats don’t want him to.
I disagree. Public pressure will cause them to do something. They are on recess dealing with constituents angry about $4 gas.
If the RNC is smart, they run against not only Obama, but also against the Dem Congress. This energy stonewall is a great issue and could allow the Reps to pick up seats.
LOL!
Poorly written lead. The Wall St Journal had it better:
Democrats, Republicans Team Up on Oil Bill
A group of Democratic lawmakers is banding with Republicans to draft legislation that would ease the federal moratorium on offshore oil drilling while ending a tax break for oil companies.
The effort highlights the eagerness of some Democrats to break a deadlock in Washington over energy policy as Congress heads for a monthlong recess without having passed legislation to address high gasoline prices.
Many party leaders, including Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, have criticized proposals by President George W. Bush and the Republicans' presumptive presidential nominee, Sen. John McCain, to lift the offshore-drilling ban. But opinion polls indicate rising support among voters for increased domestic drilling, including in coastal areas where such activity is currently prohibited.
In a move that could signal a possible softening of Sen. Obama's position, his campaign on Friday issued a statement praising the bill but stopped short of an endorsement.
A spokesman for Sen. McCain said that while he "applauds the bipartisan effort," he wouldn't support the proposal because "he cannot and will not support legislation that raises taxes."
On Friday, 10 senators -- five Democrats and five Republicans -- announced legislation to open to drilling additional acreage in the Gulf of Mexico off Florida's western coast. The legislation would allow Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia to "opt in" to allowing drilling off their shores if their legislatures approve.
At the same time, the bill would raise billions of dollars for various conservation and energy-efficiency programs by making oil companies no longer eligible for a manufacturing tax credit. Some estimates have put the potential savings from such a move at $13 billion over 10 years.
The manufacturing tax credit seeks to encourage job creation in the U.S. by giving a tax break to all domestic manufacturers that produce goods in the country, including oil companies.
Within minutes of the senators' unveiling of the bill, Sen. Obama's campaign released a statement that praised the proposal as "a good faith effort" and "an important step in the process of reducing our dangerous dependence on foreign oil."
Asked whether Sen. Obama's comments signal an intention to support a relaxation of the ban, an Obama campaign spokesman said, "He welcomes this compromise as a first, bipartisan step....If a group of senators come to him with a good-faith effort to solve a major challenge like this one that contains some steps he doesn't like, he's not going to reject it out of hand." A person familiar with the matter said Sen. Obama is likely to elaborate in the coming days on steps he would pursue as president to boost domestic energy production.
Although Sen. Obama said he remained "skeptical" that new offshore drilling would reduce gas prices in the short term, his comments opened the door to working with the group. He said he welcomed "the establishment of a process that will allow us to make future drilling decisions based on science and fact."
Now Obama has angered blacks with opposition to reparations other than inner city programs. He is truly diabolical and has no center.
Picking up seats would be a great hedge against a possible Obama win.
NOthing is sacred to this Manchurian. He is programmed to do one thing only win. Methods matter little.
Absolutely!
Notice the endless triangulating, it's all programmed into the black messiah.
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