Like we couldn't see *this* coming...

meanwhile, we have the NEA indoctrinating the children from day one in school that we are ruining the ecology and destroying the planet.

But the right blogosphere should sally forth with info on ANWR on every gas price spike, and the recent one will not be the last.

the Dems feel confident that they can continue to block drilling because the American people will accept $3.50 and go back to their coma...

Then the next rise in prices will all be the evil oil companies and their Republican allies. If the Congressional Republicans don't stay on this issue -- refusing to give it up -- it will all go away.

not excruciating but definitely highly annoying.

And it is subject to spiking up with each international crisis, currency shakeup and weather event.

BTW...for those of you that liked this primary season...get ready for More because the Maverick camp just nixed an effort to spread the primaries out in 2012!

Ain't this fun?

Oh...and by all reports...it wasn't KOS or the Nutroots that were pushing the Lieberman as VP thing last week in an effort to blunt the momentum McCain gained himself after Saddleback...it was none other than John Sydney McCain by all reports....and according to Novak....he was still holding onto the idea of nominating a DEMOCRAT as VP till Lieberman told him no!

I'm seriously wondering if his proclivities for reaching across the isle don't apply to this election because he damn sure doesn't act l;ike he wants to win this.

In another bombshell according to TAS...If McCain appoints a Pro-Choice VP...a floor fight is in the offing...it seems that if one state calls for another candidate to be considered...and another 5 states second...we have an open convention...It would be a daunting task and unlikely...but it's possible if the Maverick get's to damned mavericky!!!

Impeach the Traitorous 5!!!

Based on, well, what?

And "long-term education project"? You may very well be spot-on, but good googa-mooga. We've been debating this for, what, a decade? How much freaking longer-term do we need to go on this? Do we have to wait until after this fabled unicorn-based alternative energy source arrives on the scene before this wasteland can get explored.

Sorry street, I just ain't buying this - and I have no idea what good is accomplished in the way of "long-term education" when the "DRILL DRILL DRILL" party stops talking about ANWR because their nominee is, well, stupid.

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quite painful, and not likely to go down that much further. Nothing focuses attention like price.

While the debate has been a long one, the pro-drilling movement has only begun to crack the mass market by savvy use of the media and the blogosphere. Even Johnny Mac has come around on the OCS.

So I'm relatively optimistic that sense on ANWR will prevail. Eventually.

Last year I traded in my Dodge Caravan [my baby] for a Honda Civic -- we just got 42 all the way to Toronto/Niagara Falls and back -- because gas got over $3.00 and I refused to pay the high prices I was paying. When I am not on vacation I carpool several days a week and ride my bike home -- partly for savings and partly for time-savings [I'd be riding after I got home anyhow -- so this just cuts 30 minutes off my time].

But, MOST Americans got angry with that $3.00 gas, and then when it dipped back under -- promptly went back to their old ways. I fear that we will get accustomed to $3.50 and forget our anger at $4.00 until NEXT summer.

While the debate has been a long one, the pro-drilling movement has only begun to crack the mass market by savvy use of the media and the blogosphere. Even Johnny Mac has come around on the OCS.

And so now that we've begun to see momentum in our direction McPain throws tire-shredders in front of the truck. I think it's likely as not that ANWR will become under President Maverick what fetal tissue research (remember that?) became under Dubya - relegated to the dustbin of history. Sheesh.

I'm getting to the point that I really cannot stand this son of a bi---.

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I mean, the party has ignored it for the last 10 years. So I really don’t care if it says that we are for improved Martian relations as long as the people that occupy the seats in the House and Senate are actually fighting for what we want like increased energy supplies.

Fighting for conservatism one day at a time.

Take away the platform entirely and these Crapweasels make it up as they go along. I'll speak for myself when I say that I'm, erm, uncomfortable with Maverick and a greatly depleated congressional minority making it up as they go.

That said Crapweasels have ignored said platform for the last decade or so might go some way toward explaining why we're in this mess, don't you think?

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began implementing the proposals that he ran on, shortly after being elected? The Democrats were all up in arms because he was actually DOING what he had campaigned on doing.

They claimed that it was an UNFAIR tactic.

The "Plank" ceased to be of ANY importance decades ago.

Seriously Dave - why have a platform at all?

Let's let the Crapweasels decide on the fly what the GOP stands for. You A-OK with that?

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it gives the base something to rally around.

BTW, I love your term crapweasels. It is SO illustrative of the problems we face.

Cannot recall who was the first to use it though. Simpson? GC? Ace-in-TX?

But agreed, it's painfully illustrative of the problems we face.

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in the congress had stood up and made the case instead of running to the corner and cowering like a whipped dog! and Bush did nothing to sell it...

It drives me nuts because he was elected on it...and they just sat on it...I can't help but wonder if the numbers for it were so bad not because he put it out there...but because he campaigned on it and didn't do it after winning the election on it.

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... with an Administration that brings the concept of "message control" to depths not plumbed since, I don't know - Hoover?, and you pretty much get where we are today.

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The Democrats are on the verge of ramming everything we've managed to stop them from doing over the last 14 years down our throats and Bush can't find it within himself to say no...and the Maveric is hell bent on pushing a Democrat down our throats as VP and doing everything he can to agitate and irritate the base he can think of...

Wake me up when this is over would ya'll?

Impeach the Traitorous 5!!!

While the left has continued to SCREAM about how partisan the Bush Administration has been for the past 7 years, it was NEW TONE that derailed any substantive progress toward serious issues and actual governmental reforms.

The Congress and the President were never partisan enough to DEMAND action -- never took the issues to the American People -- and so they p***ed away any hope of achievement.

did him in...they basically told him it was a non starter when he put it out there...so he just laid down and died

Impeach the Traitorous 5!!!

... you are taking Maverick at his word that he now has "seen the light" on OCS exploration - in other words, that he gives a rat's arse about "increased energy supplies" any more than The One's "Hope, Change and Bong Resin" approach to the problem. Right?

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is that even as a Maverick, he can be compelled to do things if the voters wish. If we keep the numbers for pro-drilling in the 70% range he will do what every seasoned politician will do and make that his position. It’ll be real hard for him to back away from this one.

Fighting for conservatism one day at a time.

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torture him over energy :>)

if a US company drills for oil in some far off land, it is much better to tanker it back to the US, regardless of cost, rather than add that oil to the world market to drive down the cost of oil to everyone.

This is not protectionism, it is merely "Mine! Mine! Mine!" thinking. Of course, while these same Democrats oppose ANY exploration of American resources they have NO problem asking -- dare I say DEMANDING -- that Saudi Arabia and Iraq increase THEIR production and share their oil with the US.

The SAME "No War for OIL" loudmouths on the Democratic side are now using Iraq oil production as a campaign issue -- "WHY DON'T WE MAKE THE IRAQIS SHARE THEIR OIL WITH THE US?"