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obama opens up new offshore drilling. (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/science/earth/31energy.html?hp)
who would imagine such a thing. i thought he hated all forms of commerce. golly, thinking about this AND his push for more nuke plants... what could he be thinking?
ResearchMonkey
3/31/10, 11:58am
Nice! Now if only the oil companies could actually make it past all the bureaucracy and make some hole. -- How long do you guess?
0bama's war on our fragile coastal ecosystem won't be well received. The Greenie's heads will explode!
ResearchMonkey
3/31/10, 12:50pm
More smoke and mirrors by Obama.
Seems that Obama just delayed the process for the 2010-2015 lease plan for new development on the Outer Continental Shelf. Now he's pushing it back by a few years and claiming he did something good.
Basically he's just preventing anything from happening until after the next presidential cycle. He placating the stupid eco-commies until after they vote for him again.
WASHINGTON, D.C., Mar 8 - After more than a year of delays, Secretary of the Interior quietly announced (http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/677-e2-wire/84781-salazar-eyes-sequential-offshore-drilling-plans) last week that the Obama Administration will discard the 2010-2015 lease plan for new development on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) and wait until 2012 to put a new plan in the place. This means that the Administration’s initial six-month delay has turned into a three-year moratorium on new offshore drilling. Even if a new lease plan is implemented by July of 2012, no new lease sales will occur during President Obama’s term in office. It will also mark 45 months since Congress first lifted the moratorium.
“Secretary Salazar has finally confirmed what had long been feared – that the Obama Administration has no intention of opening up new areas for offshore drilling during his four-years in office,”said House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings. “In 2008, in a bipartisan agreement, the decades-long ban on offshore drilling was lifted that opened 500 million additional acres for new energy production. This area contains an estimated 14 billion barrels of oil and 55 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. The American people expected the Administration to seize this incredible opportunity, not keep the ban in place for years down the road. This is now the ‘Obama Moratorium’ on offshore drilling and the responsibility for this delay lies squarely at his feet.
“Despite public comments that favored a new leasing plan by a 2-to-1 margin (http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2010/02/04/shhh-public-comments-favor-drilling/), the Administration has decided to disregard the overwhelming opinion of the American people who support opening additional areas to drilling. By extending this drilling ban to 2012, the Administration is single-handedly preventing new job creation, billions in new government revenue and increased energy security.”
Sauce (http://republicans.resourcescommittee.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=175106)
And nukes? Yeah, thats not going to happen either. Obama has closed the ONLY waste facility, something required for any new nuke facility's.
More empty words from the Executive Office of the pResident.
This is actually what happened...
Obama Ends Ban On East Coast Offshore Drilling (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125378223)
"President Obama announced the end of a decades-old ban on oil and gas drilling along much of the U.S. Atlantic coast and northern Alaska on Wednesday, as part of an effort to reduce foreign imports and win support for an energy and climate bill."
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"But actual drilling is likely years away, as individual state legislatures and governors would still need to approve exploration and drilling off their coasts and determine how near to shore they would allow it. Those states that permit drilling could get a chunk of the revenue, if Congress approves."
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"The proposed expanded area in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, however, will effectively be on hold for years, as the moratorium on drilling there doesn't expire until 2022.
Congress had prohibited drilling off most of the U.S. coastline for decades, but that ban expired two years ago, clearing the way for the changes."
ResearchMonkey
3/31/10, 02:47pm
Yeah, thats what happened if you completely ignore that Obama killed a broader plan that was already underway.
It's a game, he moved us backwards and claimed progress.
To discard a bad plan for a good plan is not a bad thing.
it doesn't matter val. everything that marxist muslim kenyan does is wrong.
it doesn't matter val. everything that marxist muslim kenyan does is wrong.
Ooops, yeah... forgot about that. Thanks for setting me straight. ;)
ResearchMonkey
3/31/10, 03:28pm
You forgot one, he's not just a Kenyan, hes black too.
I see your ability to dismiss based on rhetoric is growing despite the facts.
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/6779/1267654706933.jpg
*sigh*
/facepalm
http://www.walrusbucketsaga.com/images/91-polarbear-facepalm_%28nomdeprun%29.jpg
To discard a bad plan for a good plan is not a bad thing.
.... everything that marxist muslim kenyan does is wrong.
Seriously, dooode, consider the fact the he is running this country. Or do you just pay your bills and say: "La, la, la,la."
Please indicate what you feel that Ole'"1 & Done" has done that you say
"alright! " to......
i like that obama:
is encouraging nuke plants
actually came up with a fucking strategy for afghanistan
is not a hayseed like his predecessor
i don't like that obama
is too far to the left for my general comfort
is doing this health care thing
had to bail out various companies that were "too big to fail"
is more concerned with his agenda than how it's going to be paid for
ResearchMonkey
3/31/10, 05:41pm
Obama has killed ANY chance of new Nukes by closing the waste disposal unit. A required preexisting condition for ANY new nuke plants.
You mean the strategy that Bush/Cheney left for Afghanistan?
It's going to be interesting when you suddenly discover your general comfort has been reduced to very uncomfortable. I hope you like wine-in-a-box.
Obama has killed ANY chance of new Nukes by closing the waste disposal unit. A required preexisting condition for ANY new nuke plants.
You mean the strategy that Bush/Cheney left for Afghanistan?
<snippety snip>
There was no strategy from Bush/Cheney other than to continue and prolong the war as long as possible.
It's going to be interesting when you suddenly discover your general comfort has been reduced to very uncomfortable.
um, go back and re-read what i posted. i did not express "general comfort" with obama, but rather that he "is too far to the left for my general comfort."
...and that's the last time i correct you when you're just goading anyway.
ResearchMonkey
3/31/10, 07:02pm
My point was that I believe you are misunderestimating your statement on comfort.
No correction needed.
ResearchMonkey
3/31/10, 07:06pm
There was no strategy from Bush/Cheney other than to continue and prolong the war as long as possible.*Your little secret* ;)
There was no strategy from Bush/Cheney other than to continue and prolong the war as long as possible.well if that is ones view, you'd have to admit the "mission WAS accomplished"
right? :p
The MISSION was accomplished.
The folow up was a hassle (until they went with the surge-just like Obama did in Afghanistan)
ResearchMonkey
3/31/10, 09:32pm
"They asked us not to announce our findings publicly, and we agreed, giving them the benefit of our work and the benefit of the doubt," Cheney said. The strategy Obama announced in March bore a "striking resemblance" to what the Bush administration review had found, the vice president said.
Dithering (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33426929/ns/politics-white_house/)
Obamasan's "plan" was given to him.
Obama is clearly the greatest president of the 21st century!
He’s won the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Brought peace to the Middle East by siding with the Arabs.
Closed Gitmo and given lawyers to the terrorists.
Put the CIA agents on trial and jailed the Navy Seals.
Saved the economy while giving everyone free healthcare.
Nationalized the banks, the mortgage industry, students loans
the auto industry and struck down that evil murdering Toyota!
Built all the nuclear power plants which stopped climate change
dead in it’s tracks.
Yes next he will give amnesty to all the illegals and bring the remainder
of the evil capitalist system under government control.
The legacy of his regime will be that the Republicans will be voted into
all three branches of government and be left holding the bag.
Simply brilliant!
ResearchMonkey
4/01/10, 02:53am
lmao.
I knew we kept you around for a reason.
http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/4365/1270075413333.gif
The MISSION was accomplished.
yeah, on time and on budget thanks to brilliant front end planning. *punch*
well if that is ones view, you'd have to admit the "mission WAS accomplished"
right? :p
:lol:
OK, you got me! :D They DID accomplish that mission.
Seems to me that the mission is continuing into this administration. I would like to see Afghanistan and Iraq take control of their own country and let our people come home. We have no desire to and no intention of occupying their country and running it for them.
Obama is clearly the greatest president of the 21st century!
0_o ORLY?
<snippety snip>
Yes next he will give amnesty to all the illegals and bring the remainder of the evil capitalist system under government control.
1986, Reagan (Republican) administration grants legal status to illegal immigrants (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/23/washington/23amnesty.html)
The legacy of his regime will be that the Republicans will be voted into
all three branches of government and be left holding the bag.
Simply brilliant!
We'll see. It's going to depend on how far to the Right the Republicans move themselves. What the Republicans have failed to notice is that the majority of voting Americans have political views in the middle. Many Democrats fail to notice too so I'm not siding with either on this. Many of the fiscally conservate Democrats ("Blue Dog") have retired from office and I am left wondering who will represent me and my moderate views in office. I'm not alone.
Val, If someone has to explain a joke to ya it ain’t funny anymore.
Oh and congratulations on joining the Conservative movement.
You too Minks.
Val, If someone has to explain a joke to ya it ain’t funny anymore.
Oh and congratulations on joining the Conservative movement.
You too Minks.
I'm not much of a joiner. ;) Though I did join this board. Maybe that counts for something. :D
My political views have always been somewhere in the middle of the spectrum.
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