What happened to the Sep 30 expiration of the Congressional drilling ban? Don’t they have to pass a new bill?
I wish McCain could understand WHEN to go across the aisle. Now he says he would name Andrew Cuomo to his cabinet (SEC) who helped form this mortgage debacle when he ran HUD. Gramm-Leach deregulated financials, banks, and ins. but the Dems had already pushed subprimes under Reno, and continued to increase them when Raines, Gorelick et al ran Fannie and Freddie..
We must drill--union people and other Dems. (except those on the plantation tit) MUST realize WHERE Obama wants to take this country. He thinks we need to be more global, to depend on govt. more. He would totally finish wrecking us, besides making us vulnerable to more attacks.
I think Palin gets it, but McCain has been in the Senate so long, I do not believe he realizes the extent to which this country is being taken over by vicious leftists. He remembers Dems from earlier times who were also true Americans. Now too many are rabid socialists.
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Bush has threatened to veto the bill if it gets to his desk. But if he effects a pocket veto, then the September 30 deadline would expire, would it not? The way I see it, then drilling could go forward.
Any other thoughts on this exploration of thought?
In the meantime, they’re probably loading the bill with porkies/earmarks.
That’s right. If nothing becomes law to stop oil drilling, come Sept. 30, the federal gov’t is out of the way, and our oil and gas industry can drill for known reserves and explore in any part of the continental shelf where one of the several states has not imposed a ban.
That’s the point of the article: as seems to be reflex, when the time comes to do nothing, the demonRATs always want to do something. They’re attaching to bogus ‘you can drill only where the water is deep and we don’t know there’s any oil’ ‘energy bill’ to a Continuing Resolution, that is a budget measure to keep the government open without adjusting funding levels.
They want to make it impossible for Bush to pocket veto what is effectively
an extension of the ban dressed up pretty to deceive the sheeple.