Drilling Taxpayers

The Wall Street Journal ^ | Friday. April 12, 2002

[TroutStalker]

What is it about Republicans? Just when they seem to be winning an argument on the merits, they give the game away. This week's looming fiasco is the backstage effort to link a Senate vote on Alaska oil drilling to a steel bailout.

[hchutch]

It's called covering all the bases. Furthermore, drilling and exploration in ANWR is vital enough that it is WORTH the tradeoff, IMHO.

[sauropod]

Murkowski was involved with CARA.

Caveat emptor. 'Pod

[Lysander]

What makes this smoke-filled socialism especially frustrating is that Republicans have begun to win the ANWR debate.

Republicans no longer represent small government and less taxes. They only promise it. The reality is we choose between left and far left socialism in the U.S. We won the cold war against the Soviets but lost it to domestic liberals.