Salazar's Ban Is Soros' Bonanza

IBD Editorials ^ | January 23, 2010 | Investors Business Daily staff

[Kaslin]

Energy Policy: Our interior secretary plans to reinstate the offshore drilling moratorium struck down by a federal judge. But if deep-water drilling is so unsafe, why are we helping Brazil drill nearly three times as deep?

Maybe Secretary Ken Salazar can explain why Britain and others can safely drill in the North Sea and no other nation has suspended its offshore drilling. Yet there he was Tuesday saying he'll reissue a reworded moratorium that will make it clear to dunces like U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman why offshore drilling is unsafe.

As with health care reform and other issues, the administration's position is that we didn't make it clear enough, so we will speak slower and use smaller words. But double talk is double talk no matter how you rearrange the words.

"The decision to impose a moratorium on deep-water drilling was and is the right decision," Salazar said, even after he was caught rewording a report so a team of experts he assembled would look like they supported the moratorium, when in fact, they adamantly opposed it and thought it would do more harm than the Deepwater Horizon spill itself.

"If some drilling equipment parts are flawed, is it rational to say all are?" Feldman asked in his ruling. "Are all airplanes a danger because one was? All oil tankers like Exxon Valdez? All trains? All mines?

"That sort of thinking seems heavy-handed, and rather overbearing." Not for an administration and its environmentalist supporters whose collective goal is not to drill safely, but to drill not at all, at least not here.

[Vaduz]

Just tell the environmentalist supporters we are drilling for battery juice for a new type of electric cars.

[rockinqsranch]

We need a government that is representative of the interests of the people of the United States, NOT the interests of International Politico/International corporate Globalists.

We need to reject any Leftist musings about environmentalism unless there is substantive proof filed with the allegations, and appropriate unbiased panels of true Scientists of the field in question certify the alleged proof.

We must defund every Leftist obstacle to Freedom that exists within our government, and damn the torpedoes of the MSM, and the Leftists as we proceed to do so.

Make the Federal Government so damned small it can’t be seen from my front porch.

[Condor51]

Our interior secretary plans to reinstate the offshore drilling moratorium struck down by a federal judge.

Okay. Who the F is running this Country... the Latin Kings and Gangster Disciples? Or a Government 'Of', 'By', and 'For' the people? Annnnd aren't we a 'Country of Laws', not 'Men'.

Jeezus H, if Dubya or his Admin had defied a Federal Judge's ruling on anything the commieRATS would have burned down the White House. And I mean Pelosi, Reid, Schumer and the rest of their cabal.

[Kaslin]

You can say that again