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Nancy Pelosi To "Save the Planet" With Perpetual Foreign Oil Dependency
Obstructing domestic energy exploration is threatening to become an ever-weightier albatross around Democrats' collective neck this November. With 73% of Americans supporting the expansion of drilling into currently verboten areas and only 9% supporting the Congress that so inexplicably resists it, this one's rapidly evolving from your typical "wedge issue" into something closer to "political mass suicide".
Handcrafted by Flip on July 29, 2008 |
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Are you trying to be daft? Or do you merely think your readers are? I thought the democrats' argument was that we need to save the plane by significantly reducing our dependence on all sources of oil - foreign and domestic. Does anyone ever buy these brain-dead mischaracterizations? Or have y'all gotten so lazy you're not even trying anymore?Posted by: MGold | Jul 30, 2008 10:27:30 AM
Pelosi's argument is that it's more important to obstruct production (ostensibly a world-saving measure) than to help reduce prices and dependence on foreign sources by expanding domestic exploration. That's so daft that 73% of Americans disagree with her on the point. When only 9% approve of the job you're doing, adopting a Costanza-style do-the-opposite approach is probably in order."Every instinct I have, in every aspect of life, be it something to wear, something to eat, it's all been wrong.Sound advice for the 110th Congress.
"Yes, I will do the opposite. I used to sit here and do nothing, and regret it for the rest of the day, so now I will do the opposite, and I will do something!"
Posted by: Flip | Jul 30, 2008 10:39:07 AM
Thanks for all your help with the contest. I'm sure you're brilliant but the public at large is not as stupid as it at first appears. So it would be great if you actually made eal arguments rather than straw men arguments.Posted by: MGold | Jul 30, 2008 10:48:04 AM
No. Pelosi's point (and that of the democrats at large) is that it is time to stop arguing about where oil comes from and start focusing on developing alternatives. A supermajority of Americans agree that drilling is the answer. A supermajority may even agree that global warming and its effect are not a major concern. That does not make them right. But none of that is even my point. My point is narrower. You framed her argument as one in which the choice is domestic or foreign oil and she is choosing foreign sources when the actual argument is between dependency on oil as an energy source and a concentrated attempt to move beyond oil. Throw in possible environmental problems and despoiling natural wildernesses and her position is perfectly reasonable though tremendously unpopular.Posted by: MGold | Jul 30, 2008 11:00:10 AM
