Posted by: Dan @ 10:07 am in Oil
It appears that Dick Durbin is getting the message that Americans want to drill for energy in this country and stop making our enemies rich.
“I’m open to drilling and responsible production,” Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin told The Wall Street Journal, adding that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid could also support the move.
However, Durbin said his support for opening new areas to drilling was contingent on setting requirements that oil and gas companies begin production within a specified time frame on acreage they have leased from the government.
He can see that this issue will damage him in his campaign to stay in the Senate, but he is hedging his bet. Durbin is still under the illusion that Americans hate the oil companies. It is true that the radical wing of the Democratic Party hates the oil companies, but union worker want these jobs.
Republicans need to be smart and get ahead of this issue, they need to hammer home the fact that Durbin and his global alarmist friends have prevented production of American energy. Instead we have been enriching hostile regimes by purchasing our energy from them. We did not even reduce pollution, the fossil fuels are still being extracted instead of American workers benefiting from the jobs, America’s enemies are reaping windfall profits.
Durbin is coming late to the game and if he has a competent opponent he should be scared. $4 a gallon gas has the potential to make this “bad year to be a Republican” into a bad year to be an incumbent.
Cross posted at The Hinge of Fate
Following the Obama, Clinton unity party in Unity, New Hampshire the Democratic Party is still divided. Barack and Hillary said all the right things,
“We have stood toe to toe in the hard-fought primary,” Clinton said. Now, she told the crowd, they are “shoulder to shoulder” and “our paths have merged.”
When Clinton said, “I am proud that we had a spirited dialogue,” the crowd started to chuckle. She paused and added, for an even bigger laugh, “That was the nicest way I could think of phrasing it.”
It seems that Hillary’s hard-core supporters are not buying it. One day after the Obama and Clinton had their little unity party a group of pro-Hillary vandals tagged 60 vehicles in Orlando, Florida with anti-Obama and anti-McCain messages.
This is just more evidence that Obama is having a hard time winning over another key demographic that supported Hillary; criminals. Criminals have long been a key voting block for the Democratic Party, they have fought to restore voting rights to felons and objected in 2000 when Florida removed convicts from the voting rolls. Salon.com argued that Al Gore would be President today if these felons where allowed to vote.
The question we all need to ask is, can McCain appeal to the criminal vote that was once the exclusive domain of the Clintons? Or will they eventually grit their teeth and vote for Barack?
Cross posted at The Hinge of Fate
Yesterday Republicans proposed the Gas Price Reduction Act, a comprehensive plan to increase oil supply and encourage the growth of alternative energy sources. This plan is a compromise because they did not push to drill in ANWR. It does include offshore drilling and oil shales.
This is the right approach, increase the supply of oil now while pursuing alternative forms of energy. Unfortunately Barack Obama and his friends on the left only want to punish oil companies. They say we must have alternative energy and that drilling for oil will not reduce the price of gas now. What they don’t tell you is that alternative energy is not going to reduce the price of gas for decades maybe longer.
Even some republicans are buying into the global warming hoax and suggesting that we need to stop using oil soon than is economically necessary. The Governator had this to say: Read the rest of this entry »
John McCain lost my vote along time ago. He still makes me angry and I will not be happy to vote for him in November. There is only one thing that will make me vote for McCain and that is his opponent.
Initially, when McCain was handed the Republican nomination by a coalition of Democrat/Independent crossover voters and squishy Republicans, I decided not to vote for him in November. At that point I knew I was dooming the country to another 4 years of a Clinton in the White House. As bad as that would have been it may have been worth it to teach the GOP a lesson.
Then came Obama. He didn’t seem so bad at first but the more you get to know him the more dangerous he becomes. At first we did not know how naive this guy was and then he told us he would negotiate with our enemies without pre-conditions. He tells us that he wants to surrender in Iraq even though we are winning. Read the rest of this entry »
Now that the race is down to Obama vs. McCain we can start analyzing the important issues that will decide the election. Those issues are plain for everyone to see they include oil prices, the war on terror, health-care and that candidates age/experience. I will get to them in a future article, for now I want to focus on one issue that will not be mentioned in this campaign even though the American voters are very passionate about it: Illegal Immigration.
Not long ago illegal immigration looked like it would be one of the key issues in this election cycle. The American people are fed up with the effects of illegal immigration and they have shown their displeasure by passing tough local laws, by forming citizen groups to patrol the borders and by rejecting the McCain-Kennedy comprehensive immigration reform act.
Polls consistanly show that between 65% and 81% of Americans want something done to reduce illegal immigration. A border fence is wildly popular among Republican voters.
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BTW, my previous post is awaiting moderation for an edit. I was in brass knuckle mode whe I wrote it so keep that in...
