Drill here. Drill now. Pay less. Create American jobs. Keep American wealth inside America.

The next great McCain/Palin ad?

The democrats will insert a renewal of the drilling ban in the continuing resolution for funding and will blame Bush and the GOP if the government shuts down at this time of financial market vulnerability. The shutdown showdown is coming.

.Steve Z on September 19, 2008 at 12:12 PM

I am with you on the shale, but we are both p**sing into the wind.

Amendment X on September 19, 2008 at 11:15 AM

I think that it would be impossible for most members of those organizations to remember the Constitution: when they were in middle school they didn’t do their homework, as usual, which was to read the Constitution and they had a special class on diversity instead of the planned discussion of the Constitution on the following day.

There’s more (shale) oil under western Colorado, eastern Utah, and southern Wyoming than under both coasts and ANWR combined. Granted, it costs more to extract than offshore, but at $100/barrel, companies can still make money. We’ve got a 100-year-plus supply, and most of it is under Federal parkland, so the Feds need to free it up for development.

Energy independence, and thousands of blue-collar American jobs, what are we waiting for?

Drill here. Drill now. Pay less. Create American jobs. Keep American wealth inside America. If that’s too difficult to understand, then allow others with better comprehension skills to take office instead.

Beautiful. Succintly put.
Everything else is bullsh*t.

there it is on September 19, 2008 at 9:04 AM

I’d add, from the George Will comment about government “Get the hell out of the way”. Oh, which by the way is exactly what the Constitution is all about. (Note to Congress, the president and SCOTUS: you remember the Constitution don’t you? The document you swore to “preserve” [not add to or "interpret"], protect [not let your fellow vultures interpret as they saw fit] and defend [not by laying down and stealing my money for AIG]“. The document will all the stains on as all of you use it for toilet paper? Yah. THAT document. Well, reinstate it, kiss your power and prestige and perks good-bye.)
The only, ONLY reason I’ll be voting for McCain is that I get Sarah Palin in 4-8 years.

Let’s make it very, very clear and simple enough so that even Senators and Representatives can understand it: Drill here. Drill now. Pay less. Create American jobs. Keep American wealth inside America. If that’s too difficult to understand, then allow others with better comprehension skills to take office instead.

I don’t see anything here that attempts to balance the benefits of drilling with the environmental costs. And unless you do so, you’re simply ranting. You have no basis to complain about the Congressmens’ lack of comprehension when you haven’t even provided a rational argument.

sven10077 on September 19, 2008 at 8:39 AM

Yes, it was McCain’s mini-me that was leading it. Given McCain’s past vote and comments on ANWR, it’s pretty likely if McCain wasn’t running for President, he would have been leading this little cabal. Well, there’s always amnesty. All this kissyface rotgut with conservative voters has got to be turning McCain’s stomach. Gotta let the inner ‘Maaaaverick’ out…gotta show those voters who’s really in charge. I can’t wait until he’s inaugerated. He’s a cynic’s dream.

If we’re talking $700+ BILLION going overseas, it may be worth it in the long run to accept higher prices at the pump just to develop infrastructure and creat more American jobs. I’d be willing to sufer through some pain a the pump for that cause.

Hey Papa Joe: THAT is real PATRIOTISM!!!

I am sick to death of backroom deals that are made before ideas and solutions are even presented by our representatives to the voters. Deal making and negotiating should come later, not as a starting point.

his isn’t a proposal to produce more energy; it’s a proposal to cover more ass.

Which is historically what bipartisan Senatorial “gangs” are all about.

Both the Senate and House bills protect the special interests of the Greens (essentially Luddites trying to head “back to the Garden”– that is, if any of them still believe in Eden, not Gaia’s World). I cannot believe that the Greens have that much of a voice proportionately in the American electorate. Obviously, someone with deep pockets is providing the wherewithal for them to engage in these nuisance regulatory lawsuits that prevent our citizens to have/use our natural resources. Where are the Greens getting their funding to have such power?

These various “Gangs” continue to present themselves as models of compromise and comity when in fact they are spineless accomodaters unwilling or unable to stand up for any principles.

The nuclear power parts of your plan are already in place. That is why Combined Operating License applications have been submitted for 22 new reactors.

Check out http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors
and http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors/col.html

Now the major threat to increased use of nuclear power is lack of financing.

Actually I grew up in Gloucester County, N.J., but now I live in Dover, DE.

You?

The original Gang of 10 included five Republicans (Saxby Chambliss of Georgia (founding member), Bob Corker of Tennessee, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Johnny Isakson of Georgia, and John Thune of South Dakota) and five Democrats (Kent Conrad of North Dakota (founding member), Mary Landrieu of Louisiana , Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, Ben Nelson of Nebraska, and Mark Pryor of Arkansas.) Ten additional members have since joined, creating a “Gang of 20″: five Republicans (Norm Coleman of Minnesota, Susan Collins of Maine, Elizabeth Dole of North Carolina, John Sununu of New Hampshire, and John Warner of Virginia) and five Democrats (Evan Bayh of Indiana, Tom Carper of Delaware, Tim Johnson of South Dakota, Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, and Ken Salazar of Colorado.)