He’s changed his position. Imagine that.
He musta forgot to tell Pelosi and Reid about this.
Pan cakes ready to turn.
BTW, has he told the Mad Cow (Pelosi) about his plans.
So to get elected he is forced to consider republican ideas. Who needs him?
a) sub-prime mortgages were perceived as a benefit that counteracted perceived credit-risk based redlining; now everyone pays
b)Jena Six was a gang based assault on a single white kid who was handy, not the perpetrator of the alleged insult, and
c) on Katrina and the Chocolate City: follow the school buses left under water if you want to assign incompetence.
Would that be considered a flip or a flop? I can’t tell.
Wow. His internal polling must be really bad. Really bad.
The greatest new politics candidate EVER!
Dear Obama O’Douche,
rom the day drilling is approved until the day THAT OIL hits the market will be as short as 18 months, and the day Exploration is approved will be the day that prices start falling Fast! Obama O’Douche has no economic nor market sense. He is just parroting more DNC Spande Merde!!
Obama O;Douche isn’t fit to supervise a single garbage truck in his south side neighborhood let alone run a Country!
GOD BLESS OUR PRESIDENTS GEORGE BUSH and JOHN McCAIN and OUR GREAT COUNTRY and MAY GOD PROTECT US FROM OSAMA OBAMA HUSSEIN!
Obama has such a brilliant mind (for finding ways to avoid hard work.)
The Demagogues constantly say this, both about coastal drilling and about ANWR, but is it really an immutable fact? Yes, some big projects may take that long, but surely it is physically possible to drill and bring new supplies online in a lot less than 10 years if the will is there and the right incentives are there?
Maybe there should be strong tax incentives for all new domestic sources???? I tend to think we should have steep tax incentives for ALL domestic energy production b/c we should be ramping up all forms of energy, most especially transportation fuels, that can be produced within USA and send less $$$ to OPEC, etc.
He is the change we've been waiting for. LOL!
And Obama said “Let There Be Oil.”
McCain would consider increased enforcement as part of a comprehensive immigration plan.
So now hussein obama has thrown the ocean under the bus?
Nothing here just more triangulation and socialism.
Moonbat heads are starting to explode over this. You gotta remember - envirowhackism is their religion. One post on DU-Du jkust said that they were switching to McKinney, 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."