Posted by
Gray Ghost on Wednesday, March 31, 2010 5:47:23 PM
Our "Fearless Leader" has reversed a ban on oil drilling off most U.S. shores today. The new policy would allow oil and natural gas exploration in waters along the southern Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and part of Alaska. Speaking at Andrews air base, he said, "This is not a decision that I've made lightly." Our Fearless Leader then threw his useful idiots (the environmentalists and "Greenies") "under a bus"; and said he had studied the issue for more than a year and concluded it was the correct thing to do, given the nation's "voracious thirst for energy", the need to produce jobs, and the need to keep American businesses competitive.
"We're announcing the expansion of offshore oil and gas exploration but in ways that balance the need to harness domestic energy resources and the need to protect America's natural resources. This announcement is part of a broader strategy that will move us from an economy that runs on fossil fuels and foreign oil to one that relies more on homegrown fuels and clean energy. And the only way this transition will succeed is if it strengthens our economy in the short term and long term," concluded our "Fearless Leader.
He ended by saying, "To fail to recognize this reality would be a mistake."
Well thank you Mr. Fearless Leader.
The only real problem in all of this "statesmanship" (and I use that term loosely) is that Obama has made no secret of the fact that one factor in his decision was to secure Republican support for a sweeping climate change bill that has languished in Congress.
In other words, our Fearless Leader is again "shopping for votes in the US Congress.
By the way, Obama did NOT include some of the new sites that have been discovered in Alaska. I guess this was a "bone" tossed to his "useful idiots".