[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.

[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.

[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?

[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:)

[RightWhale]

stop us from producing our own oil

America is already producing nearly as much oil as is Saudi Arabia or Russia.

[alnick]

The fact remains that drilling in the refuge would not produce a drop of oil for a decade

Well then we'd best get a move on.

[DallasDeb]

"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, and even then far too little to change the skewed foreign oil dependence equation," Lieberman told reporters.

LIEberman is such an a$$. Don't these idiots ever think of the future? This is why SS is such a mess. They are soooo short-sighted.

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.

This is great. Wonder how many of our Jewish DemoncRAT senators are a part of these groups. Lieberman, evidently, is not--but then he was excommunicated by the Orthodox entity that does such things because of his PCness toward homosexuality and abortion.

[backhoe]

We not only need to drill ANWR, we need to drill in the Gulf of Mexico ( one of the world's largest oil reserves ), off both coasts, in the 48 continental states, and encourage our neighbors north and south to do the same.

We need to encourage the developement of modern, safe & efficient nuclear power, and encourage the use of clean coal technology- we have coal in abundance.

Most of all, we need to counter the lies and spin of the Greens, which is abetted by a compliant, obsequeous media.

Here's a Note to Activists:

Want to do something? Go here:

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for links, tools, & instructions about how to contact a pile of different people, and how to send a link to this story right here ( or anywhere else ) to a "mass email" using Outlook Express.

[redhead]

"pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge."

Damn. This gets to me. They should make every last one of these whiny liberal "news" people take a 30-trip in ANWR. In July. Without DEET. Flatter than p*ss on a plate, barren as a sheet of plywood. Desolate. Ugly. FeatureLESS. Did I mention barren? "Pristine," my foot.

[ChadGore]

http://users.wi.net/~johnh/drill.JPG