[bassmaner]

We need a congress and president that will reign in the out of control EPA.

But that is unlikely to happen.

A very common sense approach for the GOP to take with the so-called 'fiscal cliff' negotiations would be to tie regulatory reform in with *any* discussion of tax increases. It should be: 'Tax the so-called rich? Fine. Give us Keystone pipeline, ANWR, outer continental shelf, and cancel plans to lock up millions of acres on BLM land from oil and gas exploration. Then maybe we'll talk.'

But as we all know, the geldings in the GOP House leadership are too chickens**t to go there.

[RobbyS]

The irony being that increased oil and gas production might prop up his economy until 2015 and keep his supporters thinking there is light at the end of the tunnel.