FYI -- In the last session of Congress it DID pass in the Senate but surprisingly did NOT pass in the House - for the 1st time. And yes due to wimpy RINOs worried about the stoo-pid Caribou.
Ergo if Leader Frist can keep the RINOs in line again - and with his patented strong leadership that should be easy -- it should pass again in the Senate.
you know I'm kidding about Frist, right?
FYI -- In the last session of Congress it DID pass in the Senate but surprisingly did NOT pass in the House - for the 1st time. And yes due to wimpy RINOs worried about the stoo-pid Caribou.Ergo if Leader Frist can keep the RINOs in line again - and with his patented strong leadership that should be easy -- it should pass again in the Senate.
you know I'm kidding about Frist, right?
What we are watching -- on a national, cultural scale -- is tantamount to the Captain of the Titanic refusing to allow anyone to board the lifeboats, because it just wouldn't be right to allow anyone into them prior to their scheduled safety inspection.
Think "forest/trees", "strain at gnat/swallow camel", etc.
Then, seal it with the realization that if those with real political clout really wanted to develop those resources now, it'd happen.
IMO it is increasingly difficult to maintain a sufficiently cynical perspective.
Simple math -- there's more money to be made today, and in the long run, by NOT developing those resources until the price of oil is much higher than it is today. Until then, there's more money to be made maintaining the status quo, and keeping stuff like ANWR, the offshore reserves, and so forth for "a rainy day", when there's no more foreign oil to buy at reasonable prices (China, India, et al will be consuming mass quantities and not looking back). When that happens, and there's big money to be made drilling and selling "our" oil, it'll happen. But for now, that stuff is worth more in the ground than it would be in the pipeline. Follow the money.