Democrats to America: Drop Dead

The left requires only that you kneel

On Wednesday your Democrat party, the party of political hacks who are in thrall to environmentalists who in turn want to save endangered mosquitoes from greedy AmeriKans with cars and microwave ovens, voted to keep oil development on America's coasts shut down. Even as gasoline is rising above the $4.00 a gallon level, Nancy "low IQ" Pelosi and her merry band of pranksters were claiming simultaneously that drilling had been tried unsuccessfully and that drilling had to be stopped before it was too late.

Rep. John Peterson, R-Pa., spearheaded the effort. His proposal would open up U.S. waters between 50 and 200 miles off shore for drilling. The first 50 miles off shore would be left alone.

But the plan failed Wednesday on a 9-6, party-line vote in a House appropriations subcommittee, which was considering the proposal as part of an Interior Department spending package.

With record oil prices and gas prices projected to hover around the $4 mark for the rest of the summer, Republicans have ratcheted up their efforts to open up oil exploration along U.S. coastline. But the long-sought change has so far been unsuccessful.

Most offshore oil production and exploration has been banned since a federal law passed in 1981.

"We are kidding ourselves if we think we can drill our way out of these problems," House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey, D-Wis., said during the bill mark-up session.

For his part, Peterson said: "There is no valid reason for Congress to keep the country from energy resources it needs."

Note that offshore oil development has been off limits since 1981. In my book that's 27 years. That means 27 years of dwindling supply put in place by political hacks who probably never bothered to take an economics course in law school while they were busy learning how to sue productive business people. But I digress. I mean, just how would the little leftist shill know what would work and what would not since we have been banned from drilling there for almost thirty years? He provides no answer. He just expects you to take it all on faith. After all, you are one of those bitter clingers, aren't you?

Sierra Club lands program director Athan Manuel told a House committee Wednesday that drilling has been unsuccessful in driving costs down.

"The disappointing part about some of the energy policies being promoted (is) that it calls for more drilling when drilling really is the problem. And all we've got to show for pretty aggressive (domestic) drilling for the last 35 years is, again, $4 for a gallon of gas," Manuel said, adding "since the first Arab oil shock in the 1970s, the U.S. has produced almost 90 billion barrels of oil since then, so we've tried drilling our way out of the problem and it just hasn't worked."

Ok, I see. The problem is that we Americans like to have a standard of living somewhat above a cave dwelling neanderthal. And "drilling our way out of the problem"? When in the last thirty years did the leftist environmentalists and their Democrat toadies not fight tooth and nail to prevent American businessmen and scientists from developing our own resources right here in our own back yard? I thought that drilling offshore had been banned since 1981. But don't expect these people to do anything but lie to you. They don't like your standard of living. They don't like the fact that Americans want to be successful. They don't want you to have nice things. They don't like you at all, in fact. What they really want is to push you and me back into the cave.

The radical environmentalist left and their Democrat tools hate America, hate progress, hate capitalism, hate wealth and those who earn it and most of all they hate you for wanting to be happy and enjoy your life as an American. And that is why they are doing what they are doing. They are trying to bring America to its knees in the hopes that you will turn to them and beg for the scraps from their tables. Which, of course, they will be happy to dispense from the taxes that they collect from whatever you have left.