Marching Orders

IBD Editorials ^ | November 10, 2008

[Kaslin]

Transition: President-elect Obama isn't planning to wait for Congress to pass his agenda. On Day One, he plans to rescind Bush executive orders on everything from embryonic stem cell research to offshore drilling.

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When minority Republicans seemed to force congressional Democrats to abandon efforts to extend the legislative ban on offshore drilling that expired on Oct. 1, it was considered a pro-drilling victory. In July, President Bush had lifted an 18-year presidential ban on offshore oil drilling. Soon, it was hoped, it would be drill, baby, drill.

The Democrats knew otherwise. They'd run out the clock knowing that a President Obama and a re-elected Democratic Congress would undo this right-wing mischief. As Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., noted at a Sept. 18 press conference: "Nobody's going to be drilling offshore in the next three months."

Judging by statements made by John Podesta, nobody's going to be drilling anywhere domestically for a very long time. On "Fox News Sunday," Obama's transition chief called the federal Bureau of Land Management's plan to open about 360,000 acres of public land in Utah to oil and gas drilling "a mistake."

"They want to have oil and gas drilling in some of the most sensitive, fragile lands in Utah," Podesta said. Expect Obama to rescind that action and reissue the executive order banning offshore drilling in protected waters.

[Ingtar]

and thx again for all you principles conservatives who sat home 2 yrs ago, giving the rats the senate and the house....

A LOT more, mostly Fiscal Conservatives, remained home this time, providing more than the margin of victory.

[4Speed]

I would do that if I was BHO.....Besides, if the Sales in UTAH happen in Jan., it will be a DONE DEAL before BHO can pass an Executive EDICT.

Sorry Hussein, you can’t stop DRILLING once the Sale is complete.

HEY, BHO, YOU ARE STILL A SENATOR...DUDE, Why don’t you have the BALLS to put your BS in a Senate bill and Submit it ? Scared of a Debate ?

[panthermom]

I knew that things would change and I prepared for the worse, but every day it seems it will be worse than I expected.

We are soooooooooooo in for a world of hurt!

[Domandred]

some of the most sensitive, fragile lands in Utah

Anyone that has been in that area knows it's actually some of the hardest, roughest lands in the USA.

Fragile my white ass.

[ezfindit]

Yes, we are SCREWED! It gets worse by the day. Have a look at the priece below from IBD. There’s no sign of any “moderation” or “balance” coming from an Obamunist regime. It’s not even day one of his “presidency” and the flood of idiocy, evil, and stupidity keeps growing from the future Marxist in Chief.

He does this, PLUS the tax increases, and CO2 caps, and increased regulations, and increased welfare, we will have a DEPRESSION.

[ari-freedom]

The really depressing thing is that the Dems will again turn everyone’s focus on the oil companies as the villains

with the help of Bill o’reilly

[ari-freedom]

hope they enjoy higher taxes

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

I actually see some hope in all of this. Obama and his idiot communists are going to screw things up so badly and so fast, Republicans will be swept into control of congress EASILY in two years.

They are like kids in the candy store and they cannot help themselves in their unbridled lunacy.

They are going to give it to us fast, hard and deep and , in return, for their lunacy, they are going to be bent over and given it even harder and deeper in the not too distant future.

[AndrewB]

I knew Barney Frank was behind all this somehow....

[Total Package]

Obama to the US citizens: You’ll take my mandate, AND supply the vaseline too.

Just like your gas tank you'll have to take it dry too!