Republicans’ Calls for Offshore Drilling Have Grown Quieter

[TomCADem]

Source: NY Times

WASHINGTON — Two years ago, feisty Republicans commandeered the darkened House chamber during the summer recess to loudly demand that oil companies be allowed to “drill here and drill now.”

Now, with an ominous oil slick threatening the Gulf Coast from a deep-well blowout, Republican cries for more offshore oil production have grown quieter. But they have not ceased.

“The American people want to see our country develop our domestic resources in an environmentally responsible way, and they know we can,” Representative Mike Pence of Indiana, the No. 3 House Republican and a ringleader of the 2008 uprising on the House floor, said Thursday.

It was a notable Republican triumph. With gas prices hitting $4 per gallon, House Republicans were able to pressure the Democratic majority in Congress to relent on a coastal drilling ban that had been routinely enacted every year since the early 1980s. But the BP spill has made the politics of oil much more slippery for Republicans, and they are treading carefully.


Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/09/us/politics/09memo.html

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I guess this is why Michael Brown, former head of FEMA, and Rush Limbaugh have been trying to sell conspiracy theories that the oil disaster was caused by Democrats and eco-terrorists seeking to prevent off-shore oil drilling. That's right. They have been claiming that environmentalists and Democratics purposely caused this tragedy.

:crazy:

[ericinne]

1. .

So... Democra...er..libera...er...progressives, caused an ecological mess and killed 11 people to hinder off shore drilling because of fear of an ecological mess and er... never mind.

The conspiracy's are getting downright dumb these days.

[Downwinder]

4. Look at your garage floor. If you are going to have oil, you are

going to have leaks and spills.

[Lagomorph]

5. Funny, I thought it was....

a methane bubble.

[Javaman]

12. Shh stop injecting reality in the rights talking points.

you know they hate that. LOL

[Lagomorph]

14. If we keep....

...drilling into a huge rock that spits up volcanoes on a regular basis, Shit WILL happen, every now and then.

[Zoeisright]

7. There's no apostrophe in 'conspiracies'.

That right there is a sign that you're in the wrong place: you can't spell.

And BTW, it's CONSERVATIVES who caused this ecological mess along with most others, specifically Cheney with his secret meetings with energy companies in 2001.

Grow up.

[No Elephants]

8. Perect spellers can be very dumb and poor spellers/typists can be very smart.

One has nothing to do with the other.

[ima_sinnic]

10. you don't recognize sarcasm when you see it? sheesh, chill. (nt)

[MannyGoldstein]

2. Because Obama's doing it for them? nt

[troubledamerican]

9. Ouch

[ima_sinnic]

11. you noticed that too?

but it was in "GOP territory," multidimensional chess player that he is ... :eyes:

[aquart]

3. Still, their $5,000 suits need to be squirted with oil.

[Liberty Belle]

6. So true, this cartoon says it all.....

[Bigmack]

13. Oh... they'll be back....

Whenever this current spill is over, the "drillers" will be back. The memory of 'Murikans is very short.