Senate Blocks GOP Bid to Speed Offshore Drilling
- Posted on May 18, 2011 at 9:57pm by
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WASHINGTON (AP) – A GOP bid to expand and hasten offshore oil drilling in the face of $4-a-gallon gasoline prices suffered an overwhelming defeat in the Senate on Wednesday, four days after President Barack Obama directed his administration to ramp up U.S. oil production.
Five Republicans joined 52 Democrats or independents in rejecting a bill written by Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell to speed up decision-making on drilling permits and force previously scheduled lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico and off the Alaska and Virginia coasts. The Obama administration suspended several lease sales after last year’s massive BP oil spill.
The bill was supported by 42 Republicans, well short of the 60 needed to advance it. Several GOP senators complained that the bill gave too much ground to the Obama administration, including a provision that would require independent reviews of oil companies’ plans for responding to major oil spills before they could get drilling permits.
Sen. David Vitter, R-La., said McConnell’s bill did not go far enough to expand drilling in the eastern Gulf of Mexico near Florida and off the Pacific coast. He said it also “increases the burdens and requirements and hurdles of even the new Obama regulations that have been put in place since the BP disaster.”
Vitter and fellow Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu, a Democrat, also complained that the bill wouldn’t direct royalties from offshore drilling to states where drilling occurs.
After the House passed similar legislation last week, Obama on Saturday directed the Interior Department to extend existing leases in the Gulf and off Alaska’s coast and hold more frequent lease sales in a federal petroleum reserve in Alaska.
Both parties say that despite the BP spill, they want to allow responsible oil and gas drilling off the U.S. mainland and in Alaska. But they criticize each other’s approach.
Democrats assailed the GOP bill as unnecessary and a giveaway to big oil companies, while Republicans said the measure would spur production that would reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil and create thousands of jobs.
“Today’s vote shows that `Drill Baby Drill’ may be a catchy slogan, but it is not an energy policy,” said Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., who is opposed to drilling off the Atlantic coast.
McConnell called the bill a “modest approach” that takes concerns of both parties into account to achieve a practical result. “By unlocking our own domestic resources, and speeding up the permitting process, our plan would actually do something to increase supply, putting downward pressure on price” at the pump, the Kentucky Republican said.
White House spokesman Clark Stevens said the Senate bill was unnecessary, noting that the Obama administration has already taken many of the steps advocated in the bill, including a one-year extension of leases in the Gulf of Mexico and certain areas of Alaska.
What remained in the GOP bill “would have undercut the important safety standards put in place following the largest oil spill in U.S. history,” Stevens said. “These are the very standards that are allowing the administration to expand drilling safely, and industry has clearly demonstrated that they can meet them.”
The Interior Department has issued 53 shallow-water permits since last June, when new safety standards were imposed, Stevens said. Permits for 14 deepwater wells have been approved since late February, when industry demonstrated it could meet new standards on containing oil spills.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said this week that Congress should change the law to allow leases onshore to be shorter than 10 years to pressure companies to drill sooner. Currently, 41 million acres of public lands are leased, but only 12 million acres are producing oil and natural gas, Salazar said.
Offshore, the Interior Department already has the ability to extend or shorten the length of a lease.
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Comments (122)
nomercy63
Posted on May 18, 2011 at 11:42pmObama and Soros have a lot of money invested in Brazil did you expect a different result
Report Post »Outlaw_Josey_Wales
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 3:46amNo
Report Post »duane38637
Posted on May 18, 2011 at 11:35pmThe Gop need sto to throw Sen Murkowski out of thier chambers she has not voted conservative sinve May 2010
Report Post »Cold War Vet
Posted on May 18, 2011 at 11:25pmGas is about 4 bucks a gallon. Our economy is a shambles, and communist dirtbags are wandering about the Capitol building. So what do our taxpayer-funded elected representatives do? They form a big circle jerk and do nothing.
Report Post »Deda1
Posted on May 18, 2011 at 11:17pmDemorcats are the citizens worst enemies, but I doubt if the Republicans and the RNC are smart enough to capatilize on this.
Report Post »Exrepublisheep
Posted on May 18, 2011 at 11:16pmI STILL don’t know why oil pumped in th U.S. is sold at O.P.E.C. prices.
Report Post »Azranchhand
Posted on May 18, 2011 at 11:58pmBecause we will pay those prices, it’s the market! More supply equals more compettion and the price will come down.
Report Post »ecunningham1984
Posted on May 18, 2011 at 11:08pm“Today’s vote shows that `Drill Baby Drill’ may be a catchy slogan, but it is not an energy policy,” said Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., who is opposed to drilling off the Atlantic coast.
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Mr. Menendez, you are the definition of a mental midget. What’s your plan, solar and wind that produces 1% of our energy and costs 4 times a much? hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah! its official and has been for a while, this is no longer a matter of these people are just dumb or ignorant, these people are orchestrating the economic destruction of the US and any morons that say otherwise have a brain the size of the tip of my little finger. Mark it down, IF he is relected, the US will never recover. Time for people like Chris Christie and Alan West to understand that if its not now it may not matter ever.
Report Post »kscottie
Posted on May 18, 2011 at 11:04pmSame old game. No matter what the Conservatives try to pass, there isn’t enough votes in the senate. So why try? Knew that was coming.
NOBAMA lies say he‘s looking in to Alaska for drilling to look good to independents but has no real intention actually doing it because he has the senate and knows they’ll back his true agendas.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on May 18, 2011 at 10:55pmR2D2 just blew a fuse.
Report Post »ilovetheusa1
Posted on May 18, 2011 at 10:55pmoh no, Obama’s dream of drilling and drilling is not going to come true. He wants more drilling so bad and Queen Harry blocked it.
Report Post »MinorityRightsAdvocate
Posted on May 18, 2011 at 10:54pmIf the list above of the R no votes is accurate, then there may well be more to this than is covered in this report.
If DeMint was a no, but Scott Brown was a yes, then there must be much more to this. Perhaps it DOES give too much power to Obama and his cronies, don’t let the cover story fool you – do your homework before spouting off without the details, there is more to this one, I’d bet on it.
Recall the recent No vote from Allen West on the defund Obamacare bill?
Many were confused by that one as well, but if you do the homework, you’d find out that West was mostly protesting the waste of time the bill represtented, because he accurately called that it would go no where in Seneate, and there were more pressing issues that needed attention that could actually do something to stop the damage and roll back the progressive agenda.
What West was trying to do is signal that there is no time to be wasting on dead end efforts, we need to focus on what is achievable, because we do not have the luxury of time on this.
It takes some homework to understand this, but leadership is not about just doing what is popular or easy to understand in a short sound-bite, leadership requires efforts that may well be misunderstood, or unpopular. Guys like Allen West, Jim DeMint and Mike Lee in Utah know this, and likely that explains what is going on here. Again, do the homework; don’t jump to a conclusion, which is what ignorant progressive useful idiots are condi
Report Post »taebaggranny
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 1:16am@ MINORITYRIGHTSADVOCATE You are absolutely correct..I no longer trust McConnell (even tho he’s my Senator) since I got a letter from him that was a blatant LIE regarding an e-mail I sent him about H.R. 679..He definately is for giving Oblamer more power in several areas..
Report Post »let us prey
Posted on May 18, 2011 at 10:52pm@commonsenseguy
Report Post »Beet juice is ready, but i will have to listen on short wave radio from beet field. No break not even for the speech from premier obama.
Marylou7
Posted on May 18, 2011 at 10:47pmPeople please read the full story slowly.
Report Post »NuffSaid
Posted on May 18, 2011 at 10:47pmBLAZE: Again you titles! Senate block or Demcratic Snators block? Get it write!
Report Post »oceandove
Posted on May 18, 2011 at 10:36pmWell, come on now, we all know that we can’t drill off our own shores! We have to import oil from Brazil. We promised to be their best customer, after all. I mean, we did give them 2 BILLION dollars of our money to help them to drill off of THEIR shore.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on May 18, 2011 at 11:13pmWE did not odumba did. Quite frankly I think he is committing political sodomy on this country. While he is riding the steer, he is waving the RED HAT saying “AMERICA’S CHICKENS HAVE COME HOME TO ROOST! NOT GOD BLESS AMERICA; BUT GOD D*MN AMERICA!”
Report Post »krjones
Posted on May 18, 2011 at 10:33pmWho are the five republicans that votes against it? I expect this from the demwits
Report Post »Mary M. Tebbe
Posted on May 18, 2011 at 10:33pmAnti-American. Shame on the Senators that voted against this bill. It’s about time we drill our own oil and stop depending on foreign oil, and it’s about time we add jobs for Americans to help our own economy.
Report Post »taebaggranny
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 1:08am@ MARY M. TEBBE But this bill would not do that..It would just give Oblamer more power over the Oil Industry..More regs and less drilling…
Report Post »Pyx
Posted on May 18, 2011 at 10:32pmFIVE Senate Republicans voted against the Bill; Sens. Jim DeMint (S.C.), Mike Lee (Utah), Richard Shelby (Ala.), Olympia Snowe (Maine) and David Vitter (La.)
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on May 18, 2011 at 10:37pm@ pyx, i could see the other 4 rhinos, but demint.just wow, just frek‘n’ wow.
Report Post »oceandove
Posted on May 18, 2011 at 10:37pmI wonder if they are members of the CFR or are associated with the CFR. Anyone know?
Report Post »Marylou7
Posted on May 18, 2011 at 10:46pmcommonsenseguy
Posted on May 18, 2011 at 10:37pm
@ pyx, i could see the other 4 rhinos, but demint.just wow, just frek‘n’ wow.
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That is because this bill would give Obama even more control over the oil industry…meaning there wouldn’t be any drilling anyway. A clean bill free of regulation is what is needed, there are way too many regulations now.
Report Post »krjones
Posted on May 18, 2011 at 10:59pmI know Lee and Demint are true conservatives. There is more to this story than I know. I will withhold judgement.
Report Post »taebaggranny
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 1:03am@ PYX Know that McConnell IS NOT a true conservative..He’s one of my Senators and he wants Obama to have the power to Appoint people to any position he wants to and YES this bill would give the POTUS way too much power on drilling leases..
Report Post »The_Spatialist
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 9:40am“Several GOP senators complained that the bill gave too much ground to the Obama administration, including a provision that would require independent reviews of oil companies’ plans for responding to major oil spills before they could get drilling permits.”
Does everyone here at the blaze suffer from a lack of reading comprehension?? McConnell added language to the bill that would have added more regulation. We need less regulation and this bill would have added more. It was a crappy bill and deserved to die in the senate.
Report Post »let us prey
Posted on May 18, 2011 at 10:31pmThis, on top of Medvedevs threat of a renewed cold war, obama care waivers for San Fran and Nevada, Mamhoud Ahmadinejad chairing OPEC, no borders, IMF, debt ceiling,arab spring, Israel, crazy progressive poet, and that is just in the past few days.
Report Post »I am numb from all of this. What in the world is pretender in chief going to lecture us on during his speech tomorrow?
commonsenseguy
Posted on May 18, 2011 at 10:40pm@ let us prey, he will lecture us on the beauties of the Arab spring, want that be fun, so get the popcorn ready and don’t forget the beet juice,
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on May 18, 2011 at 10:30pmwell,americans, you now know who is really screwing America, 52 democrats and 5 republicans or independents, now we must fight these left wing idiots and put pressure on them ,they will either do what is right for America, or they can get their butts kicked out, take a stand people, the gas prices will only get worse,and food will skyrocket also,and we can not continue this down hill spiral.
Report Post »chris3
Posted on May 18, 2011 at 10:26pmhow much more folks? they don’t get the message yet,this is unbelieveable! how’s your budget doing?just wait.
Report Post »111gecko
Posted on May 18, 2011 at 10:25pmLibs can’t have gas go below $4.00 if they want their BHO “plan” to stay in place.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on May 18, 2011 at 11:32pmI think they are shooting themselves in the foot .. who are the voters going to blame?
Report Post »Whitey4West
Posted on May 18, 2011 at 10:22pmIf Menendez (D-NJ) is against drilling in the Atlantic, maybe he and his fellow new jersiens can fork out the extra costs of gas that stem from the non-drilling
Report Post »Cemoto78
Posted on May 18, 2011 at 10:22pmImagine that!
Report Post »NOBALONEY
Posted on May 18, 2011 at 10:21pmFive republicans joined the democrates. Washington politics is still the same. The 2012 election is not only for the Presidency, but an opportunity to change the Senate .
Report Post »not-a-lib
Posted on May 18, 2011 at 10:36pmWell said…
Report Post »CatB
Posted on May 18, 2011 at 11:06pmHere is the vote folks …
http://senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=112&session=1&vote=00073
Grouped By Vote PositionYEAs —42
Alexander (R-TN)
Ayotte (R-NH)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Blunt (R-MO)
Boozman (R-AR)
Brown (R-MA)
Burr (R-NC)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coats (R-IN)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Collins (R-ME)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
Enzi (R-WY)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Hatch (R-UT)
Heller (R-NV)
Hoeven (R-ND)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johanns (R-NE)
Johnson (R-WI)
Kirk (R-IL)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Lugar (R-IN)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Moran (R-KS)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Paul (R-KY)
Portman (R-OH)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Rubio (R-FL)
Sessions (R-AL)
Thune (R-SD)
Toomey (R-PA)
Wicker (R-MS)
NAYs —57
Report Post »Akaka (D-HI)
Begich (D-AK)
Bennet (D-CO)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Blumenthal (D-CT)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Conrad (D-ND)
Coons (D-DE)
DeMint (R-SC)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Franken (D-MN)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Hagan (D-NC)
Harkin (D-IA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kerry (D-MA)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Kohl (D-WI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Lee (R-UT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (ID-CT)
Manchin (D-WV)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Merkley (D-OR)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on May 18, 2011 at 11:14pm@CATB
Report Post »I just ran that list on the local perv list, every name came up. Go figure.
CatB
Posted on May 18, 2011 at 11:15pmThe list continues …
Sanders (I-VT)
Schumer (D-NY)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Shelby (R-AL)
Snowe (R-ME)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Tester (D-MT)
Udall (D-CO)
Udall (D-NM)
Vitter (R-LA)
Warner (D-VA)
Webb (D-VA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)
Not Voting – 1
Report Post »Baucus (D-MT)
CatB
Posted on May 18, 2011 at 11:29pm@D & J
You have some more to run .. I had to take a quick bathroom break before I could see if it all posted .. I went and got those that didn’t post the first time.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on May 18, 2011 at 11:47pm@CatB
Report Post »Come on, I have better things to do besides type names into the Perv list. Let’s just say, if they lived in my neighborhood, I wouldn’t let the cat out at night.
The_Spatialist
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 9:32am“The bill was supported by 42 Republicans, well short of the 60 needed to advance it. Several GOP senators complained that the bill gave too much ground to the Obama administration, including a provision that would require independent reviews of oil companies’ plans for responding to major oil spills before they could get drilling permits.”
Does everyone here at the blaze suffer from a lack of reading comprehension?? McConnell added language to the bill that would have added more regulation. We need less regulation and this bill would have added more. It was a crappy bill and deserved to die in the senate.
Report Post »thegrassroots
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 11:13am@ CATB
Thanks for The List!
Contact Those Five Republican Senators, America! Let them know that America’s Watching and America Votes!
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on May 18, 2011 at 10:20pmOf course, then we could actually have jobs and our own oil. Then where will the overseas donations for elections come from?
Report Post »coladude
Posted on May 18, 2011 at 10:40pmThis should be a given that we all the resource that we can.
http://politicalbowl.com – Political Videos
Report Post »BIGJAYINPA
Posted on May 18, 2011 at 10:41pmMy dear do-nothing Senators==As I used to tell my officers: Either LEAD, FOLLOW or GET THE H*** OUT OF THE WAY!!! That is one of the reasons I retired as only a MSgt. Dumba** officers don‘t like to be talked to that way and the good ones don’t need to be told…Just sayin’
Report Post »TruthTalker
Posted on May 18, 2011 at 10:46pm2012 is just around the corner. Gonna have to repeat 2010.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on May 18, 2011 at 10:53pmWest 2012 is not soon enough!!!
Report Post »AKMIIKEUS
Posted on May 18, 2011 at 10:54pmThe U.S. Navy has named one of its newest ships after Mexican-American labor organizer Cesar Chavez, officials said Wednesday.
BAM, just like that. The Right and the Tea Party and the rest of the racist in this country were put in their place.
Report Post »AKMIIKEUS
Posted on May 18, 2011 at 10:57pmBring it on West.
We’re waiting for you. Just like Trump, it will be over before it will even start.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on May 18, 2011 at 11:02pmSo Obama’s drill baby drill is all talk and NO ACTION .. I am shocked … NOT!
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on May 18, 2011 at 11:03pmDo not forget that either side will say: “I am for drilling, but in a responsible way“ or ”it is this regulation, stipulation, removal of this,blah blah that is the reason I voted the way I did.”
These corporations KNOW that drilling has to be done right; politicians GET OUT OF THE WAY!
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on May 18, 2011 at 11:14pmAt the least, we now once again know who the real hope for America are, and who those that only seek to line their own power base are for the progressive future; those who sought to deny America the freedom of foreign energy and development of native energy sources, while Obama continues his crusade to destroy the nation in any and all means at his trickery handymaking craft can need to remember it is WE THE PEOPLE who hold the future in our hands, the DC band works for us, not the other way around.
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on May 18, 2011 at 11:32pmExxonMobil is the world’s largest publicly traded oil company. Approximately 84 percent of the Company’s earnings come from its operations outside the U.S.
US based Anadarko has invested more than US$500 million in exploration and development activities in Brazil since 1998. The Company has made discoveries in the Campos pre-salt regions of Wahoo, Itaipu and Coalho.
Chevron, the second-largest U.S. oil group, holds a 51.7 percent interest in the Frade deepwater oil development project, in the Campos Basin. The project has an estimated price tag of US$2.8 billion. Development is ongoing and the estimated output should be 68,000 barrels of crude oil and 25 million cubic feet of natural gas per day, starting in 2011.
Chevron also holds 37.5 percent interest in the Petrobras-operated Papa Terra project in block BC-20 of the Campos basin. The project is estimated to cost US$5.2 billion, and first production is expected in 2013. When completed, the project is expected to be Chevron’s largest investment in Brazil.
Investments like these, along with Petrobras’ planned US$174.4 billion to increase production, ensure opportunities for the growing oilfield services industry in Brazil.
Obama saves or creates jobs for Brazil
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on May 18, 2011 at 11:40pmIf the Progressives would just get out of the way, we might be able to recover from the damage they’ve done and continue to do!
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on May 18, 2011 at 11:45pm@poverty.sucks
Report Post »Remember, Obama just looks after HIS people, we, the US citizens are not HIS people, even though he WAS born in the US. His heart belongs to the WORLD, not the US. We are miserable parasites that need to be put in our place. He will ascend the US presidency and its smallness to become what Bill Clinton couldn’t become, President of the WORLD. And then he will be paid “A Billion Dollars a year” (With pinkie to his lip).
Has anyone noticed, has he got a hairless cat recently?
Bob_R_OathKeeper
Posted on May 18, 2011 at 11:53pmAKMIIKEUS – Yeah it was cargo ship, LOL! Really put us in our place, LOL! I’m glad you fear West, he doesn’t like ****** trash either.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 12:02amAmikurious~
Bigger and better men than you have tried to intimidate Allen West — with NO success. You might get your wish, for him to bring it on! There are THOUSANDS who have volunteered for an assignment. He has 54,000 voters in his district. We just overlook the namby-pamby Democrats.
You talk tough, but that is the way a bully tries to get his way. You don’t remember the kid who slam-dunked the bully? Inspiration, little feller! He was inspiration.
Your mama’s calling you.
Report Post »Bob_R_OathKeeper
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 12:06amAKMIIKEUS – I advise you to change your profile pic too, Allen West with a red site on his head shows your hate racism, hope the SS catches that.
Report Post »seeker9
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 12:16am@AKMIIKEUS
“Ideologies aren’t all that important. What’s important is psychology.
The Democratic constituency is just like a herd of cows. All you have to do is lay out enough silage and they come running. That’s why I became an operative working with Democrats. With Democrats all you have to do is make a lot of noise, lay out the hay, and be ready to use the ole cattle prod in case a few want to bolt the herd.
Eighty percent of the people who call themselves Democrats don’t have a clue as to political reality.
What amazes me is that you could take a group of people who are hard workers and convince them that they should support social programs that were the exact opposite of their own personal convictions. Put a little fear here and there and you can get people to vote any way you want.
The voter is basically dumb and lazy. The reason I became a Democratic operative instead of a Republican was because there were more Democrats that didn’t have a clue than there were Republicans.
Truth is relative. Truth is what you can make the voter believe is the truth. If you’re smart enough, truth is what you make the voter think it is. That‘s why I’m a Democrat. I can make the Democratic voters think whatever I want them to.”
Report Post »James Carville quotes
AKMIIKEUS
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 1:00amAllen West
Yes an embarrassment.Charged with article 128 and 134.
Report Post »Real great example to set for our true American heroes.
Fortunately,he will be out in 2012,people here in Florida now have their eyes and ears open….
Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 1:12am@Darmok:
He now has a hairless cat as well? So when to they make a clone of him called minibama?
Report Post »avenger
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 6:27amaha…another surprise ? 2012 is it gang…either freedom or slavery !
Report Post »mikem1969
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 6:40amOf course the libs and progressives want to block the drilling, they don’t want AMERICA standing on its own two feet, they want her on her knees.
Report Post »Cemoto78
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 7:56am@Ookspay
Now your talking, I like that post.
Report Post »mikelivi
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 8:52amexactly Darmok, they are playing politics with our wallets. Its bullsh*t! I will vote against everyone of my reps and senators as I know my senators voted against the measure and my dem reps are progressives. I just dont get it? I think I’ll run for congress work 2 years and get a big pension forever so I dont have to worry about gas prices either…..
Report Post »Dandylyon
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 9:15amThat a boy REID you socialist POS…………………….how is it in Obmas limo back seat ??????
Report Post »Gold Coin & Economic News
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 9:57amYou gotta wonder why nearly every attempt to produce more of our own oil is defeated. Is this a conspiracy?
Report Post »thegrassroots
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 10:48amThanks Dems! You are doing a GREAT JOB of campaigning AGAINST yourselves. It’s going to be an EASY WIN for America in 2012!
Report Post »democratgirl
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 11:20amOf course they would block it. The are estranged from real Americans.
Report Post »the_zazzy
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 11:40amThank you to the people of Nevada for voting Harry Reid back in…he’s doing such a bang-up job. I only wish that what happened in Vegas stayed in Vegas, rather than going to D.C!
Report Post »Miguelito
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 11:44amIf the Dems let America use their own resources the lose power.
Report Post »JRook
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 4:38pmOk I realize that the facts can sometimes get in the way of ideological positions and rantings but that’s really no reason to ignore them just to feed your base audience. The following provides facts regarding over 200 permits being approved over the past 2 years. http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/mar/29/michele-bachmann/michele-bachmann-claims-there-has-been-just-one-ne/
Report Post »Given the oil industry’s typical activities this translates to perhaps 100 not even being acted on as yet. So is the problem lack of permits or lack of action on the part of the oil industry. Get educated and then answer the question for yourself. Oh that is if you can step away from what you want to hear and want to believe.