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President Bush is absolutely brillant!!!!!

If Bush were brilliant, he would have told his daddy 10 years agos to develop other sources of energy than the Middle East. Instead Daddy decided to maintain the status quo and wage the Gulf War instead. Well, it's what his oil buddies want.

Oil is vital to the health of the American economy. Energy policy is what created Ossam bin Laden in the first place. But I suppose this may be a start.

Brilliant would be forcing Congress to open up domestic sources of oil, like Alaska. But Bush just took the Florida gulf coast out of the picture by caving in to the environmentalists. I don't call that brilliant. I call it cheap politics.

Unfortunately, you sometiems have to play cheap politics.

The votes are not there for ANWR right now. That's the fact, and I cry myself a river, build a bridge, GET OVER IT, and work to make sure the votes are there when it comes up again.

But de-funding Islamic terror is a must, and to do that, we need a new supply of oil. Hence, Russia, which has so much, we can move to them, and even pull back a little until we have a better political situation in the Senate.

Politics, yes. But ignoring it will cause you to lose elections, and if you lose elections, you don't have any effect on policy or legislation.

stripes1776, Your comment here is totally off-base: But Bush just took the Florida gulf coast out of the picture by caving in to the environmentalists. I don't call that brilliant. I call it cheap politics.

I could link you to information to show you there are 99 leases in the Gulf, still available for drilling. And, link to info to prove there could be drilling in the future on these leases. Or, I could tell you the name of the oil company that still has the right to potentially start drilling in FL over the next 20 years. And, I could tell you why some say the recent action by Gov. Bush and GW did not go far enough, as they did not completely shut the door on drilling in FL. The door is open - but no one has walked through it yet.

Instead of linking to all the above facts, I will just tell you this: IMO, Gov. Bush and GW just made a brilliant political move with respect to FL, because after thinking more about this matter, and reading all these news articles, I predict you will soon see:

GW aggressively move forward to start drilling in Alaska.

I am guessing here, but this is why I think my prediction is right:

What GW and Gov. Bush also did through their joint action was to silence the critics who love to say: GW doesn't care about the environment; and, GW's claim of making decisions based on "local" concerns is bogus. Well, for whatever else they did, GW and Jeb just proved all these critics wrong in a very big way.

Consequently, I believe, you are going to see GW push again for drilling in Alaska, now pointing to FL as irrefutable evidence of what he has said all along (even though he did not give up the right to drill in FL either) -- that: (1) he does care about the nation's environment; (2) he is sensitive to local concerns; and (3) since everyone in Alaska DOES support drilling, we are going to try this again.

Watch what happens in the near future. I bet you this is what will happen: drilling in Alaska.

To give you an idea of how off base the Dems are on Alaska, did you know that Hoffa, the leader of a large union which supported drilling in Alaska, recently told Terry McAuliffe that: 'NO MORE MONEY IS GOING TO THE DEM PARTY FROM THIS UNION.' In fact, Hoffa, believe it or not, has publicly endorsed the following GOP governors: Ohio, NY (Pataki) and FL (Jeb Bush). This is an amazing shift. You can read more about it in Bob Novack's column in today's NY Post.

So, in short, there is a lot more to come with this drilling story. And, while I do not believe FL will be the NEXT place they drill, FL is a place where the USA still can drill -- but, the NEXT place WILL be: Alaska. Watch.

But Bush just took the Florida gulf coast out of the picture by caving in to the environmentalists. I don't call that brilliant. I call it cheap politics.

Unless a cheap alternative to oil is discovered within the next 20 years. we will be drilling in the Everglades, eastern Gulf of Mexico, off the California coast, and Anwar. And the environmental wackos will be leading the charge when their BMWs run out of cheap gas and their computers brown out.

You can take that to the bank!!