Democrates Vow to Filibuster Alaska Oil Drilling

Yahoo News ^ | 4/10/02 | Tom Dogget

[Lucky2]

The Rates seem to want to stop us from producing our own oil at any cost.

[boomop1]

Snowe the RINO has to go, what a moron.

[MrB]

drilling in the refuge would not produce a drop of oil for a decade

So what, Joe? We should never start to be less dependent if it can't happen right now?

Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine said the fastest and cheapest way to reduce oil imports would be to raise the mileage requirements for cars and gas-guzzling sport utility vehicles.

And why is it that these socialist Dems and their "moderate" Rino buddies can ONLY think of solving our problems by reducing our freedoms?

[TheDon]

Democratic Sen. Joe Lieberman (news - web sites) of Connecticut promised on Wednesday to filibuster any move to amend a pending energy bill to allow drilling in pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

I guess Joe's not running for President in 2004.

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

"The fact remains that drilling in the refuge would not produce a drop of oil for a decade, far beyond the time of the current crisis,

How in the hell does this weasely wimp know HOW long this current crisis will run. It could last for years and get worse!!

I'd put this guy in the camp of the enemy! What has he ever done for America anyhow?

[ChadGore]

those greenie slaves are going to embarass themselves something fierce.

[JMK]

In light of the recent embargo threats coming out of Iraq & friends, how about a little ol' Executive Order from W, citing national security needs?

[SoDak]

Make them filibuster it, and use the issue to drive a wedge between the unions and the rats. The Teamsters are on-board for exploration of ANWR.

[Rubber Ducky]

Let him be the poster boy in all the union worker blue collar states where the rank and file favor ANWR-- Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio, West Virginia, Illinois and Wisconsin, for starters.

[FranklinsTower]

I'd swear the dims are in the back pockets of Suadi oil money.

[Salvation]

My prediction:
All the Democrats are going to go down with the Dysfunctional Daschle Democrats if they block this.

It is more important today than ever that we develop our own sources of oil and natural gas and not depend on the Mideast Turm-oil.

[Clara Lou]

I don't understand how these people who are against ANWR drilling are able to support their positions in light of the fact that, for decades, there has been drilling all over Alaska, including on the North Slope and along the Beaufort Sea. I haven't heard that there have been any catastrophes, have you? Any species being endangered or displaced? Any major spills? The caribou, which greenies direly predicted would be endangered, have multiplied and prospered with the pipeline in their midst. They wander wherever they want up there, whether or not there is a drilling camp around. How are these naysayers getting away with the position they maintain when they have no evidence to support the fact that any land will be despoiled or species endangered? There's something peculiar about this situation.

[Wright is right!]

"I don't understand how these people who are against ANWR drilling are able to support their positions in light of the fact that, for decades, there has been drilling all over Alaska..."

Simple. They cannot support it so they make sure that such information as you've posted never sees the light of day. This they do by pandering all the more shamelessly to The Media, which hates the idea of drilling. Drilling, of course, would be a FABULOUS idea if a DemoCRATE proposed it, but since it's Dubya, it's bad. Velly velly bad.

Michael

[Common Tator]

Make them filibuster it, and use the issue to drive a wedge between the unions and the rats. The Teamsters are on-board for exploration of ANWR.

I can tell you the rank and file Auto workers are for it.

This is an issue like gun control. Gor every democrat is pleases it makes two democrats madder than hell. It is a loser. Bush needs to keep bringing it up over and over and over. The more the Demorats fillibuster the more they ensure their defeat in November.

ANWAR opposition with oil prices sky high takes Michigan and Pa out of the Democrat column.

We need to tell those Dakota farmers that Daschle wants them to pay a bundle for oil to tend the wheat, so the caribow can fornicate in peace.

The democrats are doing what ever it takes to lose the senate.

The parties are almost reversed on strategy. The Democrats used to fold on wedge issues and the Republican stood their ground and lost. Now it its the direct opposite.

It seems like the Democrats have forgotten how they got to implement their agenda for 60 years. And it appears that Dubya can't forget how they did it.

[What Is Ain't]

Given the world's current circumstances, the dems may be unwittingly writing off the 2002 elections. Should we diccourage them from doing so?

[LarryLied]

A coalition of Jewish groups, including the American Jewish Congress, on Tuesday urged the Senate to pass an energy bill that allows drilling in ANWR.

That makes a lot of sense. Correct me if I am wrong, but hasn't every Jewish member of the Senate come out against drilling in ANWR? And most in the House?

What is this, a shell game being played?

[colorado tanker]

How do they get away with this? Have you seen the press coverage of the ANWR issue? They lie. The photos used in ANWR stories are not of the ANWR, but of the Brooks Range, a spectacularly beautiful park hundreds of miles away. I even saw one recent article that featured a picture of Mt. McKinley with the ANWR story. Heck, I wouldn't vote to drill the Brooks Range or Mt. McKinley either. The media also suppresses that most of the herds and flocks are inland and not on the ANWR coastal plain, where the drilling would be. They don't tell people about the fact that wildlife around the Alyeska pipeline has flourished.

It's the Big Lie and this article is a good example. There is no "complicated" Senate rule requiring 60 votes for "controversial" legislation. That's a lie. This bill can be passed with 51 Senators voting in favor. 60 votes would be needed to halt a filibuster, but the presstitutes don't want to tell the public Lieberman and Daschle are threatening filibuster or that a majority of Senators favor the bill. So, they mangle the truth.

[aristeides]

Well, it turns out Holy Joe Lieberman is not only still opposing ANWR drilling, he's actually leading the charge (I guess that's an attempt to minimize offense caused to Jews.) He's talking filibuster, no less. I presume that means he knows he hasn't got a majority.

[StriperSniper]

Go for it Joe! (You might need one of these:)

[Southack]

Precisely.