Ed Morrissey is calling this a “concession” of defeat; I think it’s just a stall: Democrats have decided to allow a quarter-century ban on drilling for oil off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts to expire next week, conceding defeat in……

wow I am so grateful. 10 years from now I will be able to save a nickle!

Hopefully we will have alternative sources by then, if not, that means the GOP won and we are still tied down to Big oil and the US loses.

Monkei on September 24, 2008 at 11:53 AM

Yeah, well you’re a lot more likely to see oil coming out of the ground from these new sources using technology we’re already well-versed in then to be able to buy a “solar-powered” car in the next 10 years. At a minimum, the very threat of the US being able to produce more of it’s own oil should help drive down the price globally.

The Dems are going to rely on their buddies in the environmental movement. They’re going to block any attempt to drill with a million lawsuits. Don’t kid yourselves.

hachiban on September 24, 2008 at 12:23 PM

The Dems are also counting on their party taking the White House and for more numbers in both of the houses of Congress. They’ll just roll this back if/when they win. Yet another reason why all Americans should consider voting Republican this year.

Hopefully we will have alternative sources by then, if not, that means the GOP won and we are still tied down to Big oil and the US loses.

Evil, corrupt and incompetent politicians, elected by astoundingly stupid voters.

The only way these clowns do anything remotely good for this country is when they are bludgeoned by the polls.

Drill overseas? The best thing we could do is to punt Democrat politicians overseas, for good.

The bailout takes real assets (so the government spends some money but it stabilizes the markets) and then slowly sells them off in an orderly fashion rather than having a fire sale for those assets in a collapsing market which recoups the money, and a likely profit. Also, while holding those assets, the government collects the interest on them since the vast majority of even sub-prime mortgages are being paid on.

People need to stop being so emotional and think a little.

Starting on October 1, states will have no federal restrictions on oil production:

Ed Morrissey

I should want to celebrate this and be happy that the good guys won one, but there are two things stopping me.

1) The feeling that the Democrats still have something up their sleeve and some plan to stop us from getting to the oil we need after the election.

2) Anger. We won but I’m still angry. I’m angry because it took so much effort and so much time to accomplish something that so very obviously needed to be done. Its like people were starving to death and there was plenty of food to feed them, but the Democrats wouldn’t allow it. But after weeks of shaming them and much attention to the problem and much condemnation from the country heaped upon them…. FINALLY the Democrats say, oh yes, let them eat, we knew it was the right thing all along. At that point you are happy to have the opportunity to fix the problem, yet its natural to harbor anger toward the Democrats for being so bull headed and power hungry. That it would take so very much to achieve such a simple and obvious solution to the problem is disgraceful and disheartening. The Democrats are so very despicable, so utterly uncaring for their country.

Their only policy goal achieved — an increase in the minimum wage — came in a war-funding bill.

Don’t forget they apologized for slavery on July 29, 2008.