Obama moves back to middle with drilling plan (Then open up drilling off California shores)

washington post ^ | 3/30/2010 | Ben Pershing

[tobyhill]

California is bankrupt and can use the royalties.

[BelegStrongbow]

Obama is learning how to triangulate without triangulating much. So he’s learned Clinton’s lessons and we’re in the soup.

[HiTech RedNeck]

I think Bummer is doing this to try to escape the energy-shortage backlash that would come from his efforts to shut down the coal mines.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Could it be that he perceives that Bummercare has rendered his political capital almost bankrupt?

[B Knotts]

If anyone actually believed this, oil prices would be falling. They’re rising, therefore, no one believes it.

[Man50D]

BO/BS doesn’t want to move to the middle. He wants to make drilling part of a socialist cap and tax bill.

[tobyhill]

Bingo. He's impotent right now with both the right and left so he thinks if he can get Crap and Tax pushed through with some new drilling then he will have a partial rebirth and probably survive the new GOP controlled congress in 2010.

[Need4Truth]

Remember the democrat mantra from a while back, “this won’t help us for 10 years”. I expect Obama will make sure of it if he’s even telling the truth at all.

[aimhigh]

I’m convinced these are payoffs for votes on the health care bill.

[listenhillary]

It’s not a drilling plan. Opens up the area for exploration as I understand.

Head fake.

[SueRae]

He will let companies use their monies to begin drilling...only to hold a piece of climate capandtax legislation over their heads. Once they’re in good and deep, he will own them. I don’t trust this commie for an instant nor do I have any illusions about his greater plan.

[listenhillary]

would end a longstanding moratorium on oil exploration along the East Coast from the northern tip of Delaware to the central coast of Florida, covering 167 million acres of ocean.

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

He has a hidden nefarious agenda that will benefit his crooked friends and himself. At the same time, he also may be out to screw the Israelis since they just found their own oil.

Don’t fall for it.

[Las Vegas Ron]

I wouldn't trust or believe this marxist if he told me the sky was blue.

[HiTech RedNeck]

A sop to a Republican area?

[HiTech RedNeck]

Unless Bummer has a crystal ball and sees unexpected amounts of oil in that region, enough to make a significant dent in world oil prices, this can’t possibly hurt Israeli oil. Much better positioned to hurt Israeli oil is OPEC with its Arab states that pay $5 or less a barrel in actual extraction costs.

[listenhillary]

Democrats don’t care if the capitalists explore for oil, they can sell leases for exploration and prevent them from actually producing oil at the stroke of a pen.

[240B]

Its a trick.

Enviro and bureaucratic regulations will keep this bogged down for years or even forever. I doubt we will ever see any actual drilling.

Its a trick for Nov.

[verity]

Bingo!

[Bean Counter]

Stuart Varney was warning on FBC this morning that this is a feint by the Administration that is intended to divert attention from the impending ruling by EPA that CO2 is now a major pollutant. That ruling could come as early as today, or possibly tomorrow.

The strategery is to make themselves look good with this drilling legislation, even though environmentalist wackos will keep this “new drilling” tied up in court for years, if not forever. Same goes with the recent moves that appear to support nuclear power. It’s all a smokescreen to give EPA cover for what is widely believed to be the biggest job killer of them all: cap and trade, or whatever they are going to call it now...