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Marked in Pgh on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 3:10:58 PM
Sometimes, it's not the House or the Dems, it's the Senate Rinos you have to watch for signs of stupidity. Leave it up to to the Rinos in the Senate to give it all up to the Democrats and prove themselves the unwitting fools of the Left.
The bill the five Rinos, plus five Deomcrats, put together has no chance of becoming law because of a presidential veto. It's just another useless gesture, like all those non-binding resolutions either house of Congress comes up with time to to time from their liberal majorities. The main problem with this is its timing, just as conservative Republicans are continuing the present session of Congress in the House to force a vote on real oil drilling. Talk about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
The bill, as proposed, has one interesting component. It will allow four coastal states to decide on drilling off their coasts. That's a good start, it should be all coastal states. But it also restricts any drilling within the first fifty miles of the continetal shelf. Isn't this like the Dems saying; as they did with the leases in the Western States, when they said the oil companies can drill on millions of acres of land;, but only those containing little or no oil? This will not include anything, like ANWR, that may actually have significant deposits of oil, like the nearby deposits around Barrow, Alaska.
What will be the next empty consession be from the Left? Maybe they will tell the oil companies they can drill all in and around Dallas so the oil companies can be like J.R. Ewing on the old TV series "Dallas". This would be no concession. The last time I saw a geological map of Texas showing oil and gas deposits, there were no oil or gas under Dallas, Ft. Worth or their surrounding counties. There were deposits under Houston and along most of the Texas coast and off shore, however. So, even if Texas is one of the four states allowed to drill on the continental shelf under this new law, they still could not drill in some of the most pormising areas.
Idiotic concession like the ones I cited are akin to the old joke about going to a popular, fancy restaurant you have to make reservations well in advance; only to have the waiter come out and say "Here's your menus, kitchen's closed."
To the five idiots in the Senate in the latest consession to the left, all we can say is "Don't expect a tip, or a return to office."