Scum sucking maggots! Congress needs a lesson in Duty, Honor, and Country! It's a ME, ME, ME world for them.
Posted on 09/23/2008 3:09:21 PM PDT by Notary Sojac
WASHINGTON - House Democrats will allow a quarter-century ban on drilling for oil off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts to expire next week.
Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey is telling reporters that language continuing the moratorium will be omitted this year from a spending bill to keep the government in operating funds after Congress recesses for the election.
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Step away from the bong, there are poison pills in the bill.
Congress should have done this sometime in the last 10 years.
Oh, I see, Democrats are taking credit for this.
BS.
About f’n time. They must have realized that their non-drilling bill was too well publicized and it would have been political dynamite to use that as a condition for shutting down the government. Of course, nothing has been done about the environmental lawsuit wing of the Dem Party, so all’s not lost for those traitors.
They probably figure that there will be so many lawsuits filed by enviro-whackos that no drilling will occur anyway.
LOL! Beat me by 30 sec!
Was this like some huge decision that they had to think about?
Okay, they let this expire. That lets Obama off the hook. Nice Plan A...
But these are Dems so beware of Plan B.
We need the CONGRESS along with McCain.
Don’t they companies have to ask for and be granted leases next? Dems don’t have to lease anything out. THEY are in charge of the Econo-Energy Crisis.
Scum sucking maggots! Congress needs a lesson in Duty, Honor, and Country! It's a ME, ME, ME world for them.
I'll believe it when I see it it - the radical Lefties (and their enablers, including one or more US Presidents) have been renewing the ban, year after year, for decades.
Know what? Just the royalties from oil & gas production from ANWR and the Pacific OCS could just about pay for the proposed bank bailout (and that's just the royalties, no taxes or bonus bids included). But the Dems (& RINOs) would rather tax us, than produce our own publically-owned oil & gas...
The People have spoken loud and Fear!
Pray for W, McCuda and Our Troops
However, I read somewhere else that the Dems plan to add it back after the election. It takes 2 years to go through the approval process, so the Dems have no fear of an oil rig showing up along the coast.
I pray this is true.
Right, they will.
That putrid slime of a "bill" that they passed in the House was dead on arrival in the Senate and they knew it.
They've outed themselves yet again, as the party of small ideas and treason by concocting this thing in the first place.
It's just galling to know that they actually thought that no one would notice the sham they were attempting to inflict on us.
I've run out of expletives to condemn them.
Are you sure there are poison pills in the bill? On its face, it looks like a capitulation.
Of course, I don’t trust the dims one bit and find it hard to believe they would simply allow off shore drilling restrictions to lapse. If true, it’s because they are scared sh__less of this issue come November.
Democrats continue to spend our money like there's no tomorrow!
Bullcrap. They just couldn't get another bill passed and Bush promised a veto but the author either didn't know his job or is suppressing it to make the Dems look better.
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