Replies to post #339662 on Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[extelecom]

B&BS, You really need to get your facts straight...
"There are two prohibitions on offshore drilling, one imposed by Congress and another by executive order signed by Bush’s father in 1990. Bush’s brother, Jeb, fiercely opposed offshore drilling when he was governor of Florida. What the president now proposes would rescind his father’s decision — but the president took the position that Congress has to act first and then he would follow behind.

Asked why Bush doesn’t act first and lift the ban, Keith Hennessey, the director of the president’s economic council, said: “He thinks that probably the most productive way to work with this Congress is to try to do it in tandem.”"
http://www.newsminer.com/news/2008/jun/18/bush-pushes-congress-ramp-energy-exploration-inclu/

"The moratorium was imposed in 1981, when lawmakers from coastal states sought to block leasing off the Massachusetts and California coasts. Congress has approved the moratorium every year since. President George H.W. Bush issued a separate executive order banning offshore oil drilling in 1991. That prohibition was initially slated to expire in 2002, but in 1998 President Bill Clinton extended it to 2012.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/18/AR2008061800312_pf.html

[rbl100]

Yeah right LOL. With all the Democrats and the Sierra Club agreeing as well. Ok, tell us another nursery rhyme...


2008 Presidential Election
High Gas? 86% to 96% democRats Block Drilling, New Refineries, etc.

Who in their right mind would cast a vote for the party whose rhetoric and vote after vote emboldened the enemy of The United States and undermined The United States Military while on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan?

Who in their right mind would cast a vote for a party eager and content to leave the good men, women and children of Iraq for the wolves? If you think for one second they would not do the same to you and yours...think again.

Who in their right mind would cast a vote for a party when 86% to 96% of its congressional members voted time after time to block drilling, exploration, new refineries and nuclear power for here in the USA and continued to do so even with gasoline @$4.00+ per gallon?

Who in their right mind would cast a vote for a Marxist candidate who belonged to a church for 20 years where its preacher butt spewed the entire congregation with anti-American propaganda and racism? All while the Marxist candidate Obama lacked the integrity to remove himself and his family until he realized it was effecting his bid for president...despicable!