Dems’ Belligerence Won’t Win Votes
Politico.com is reporting about the Democrats’ attempts to deflect people’s attention from their miserable energy record. Their effort is predictable. It’s also a failing strategy. People want drilling for oil and natural gas. Here’s one of the Democrats’ favorite arguments against drilling:
Pelosi’s office has also pointed to an Energy Department study that shows that lifting the outer continental shelf drilling ban wouldn’t produce significant oil until 2017.
Bureaucratic red tape and litigation are two things that delay oil exploration and production. Furthermore, Democrats won’t yield on streamlining the leasing process.
It’s also worth highlighting President Clinton’s cited the ‘10 years down the road’ line in vetoing legislation that would’ve opened up ANWR. By using this excuse, Democrats are telling truckers and farmers that they’ll just have to suffer until Kenworth and John Deere start manufacturing hybrids.
It’s also worth noting that people living in the northern tier of states will get hit with monstrous heating bills this winter. Drilling now wouldn’t produce natural gas before winter but starting the leasing process would drop the prices immediately.
All three House Democratic leaders, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and Majority Whip James Clyburn blasted the House GOP for their floor tirades. It’s a sign that Democrats are not only ready to go on the offensive on this issue, but also that Republicans are making inroads with their message.
Democrats can’t effectively go on offense because they don’t have an appealing message. Let’s remember that they’re on the wrong side of a 70-30 issue. In fact, it isn’t just that they’re on the wrong side of a 70-30 issue. It’s that they’re stuck on the wrong side of this issue. What’s worse is that they’re belligerently on the wrong side of this issue.
People are demanding drilling. Eventually that will happen. The longer Democrats fight against the will of the people, the longer Democrats fight against solid energy policy, the worse November’s outcome will be. People don’t believe that there isn’t a solution to this crisis.
That’s because they’re convinced in American ingenuity. It’s because they’ve learned from American history. Look at the incredible accomplishments in American history. Think of the marvel we call the Golden Gate Bridge. Think of all the medical miracles that’ve happened the last 20 years. Think of how Democrats laughed at Reagan’s SDI. People back then said it was impossible. Now it’s on the verge of being deployed. Think of how people didn’t believe JFK when he said we’d put a man on the moon. Look at that incredible accomplishment.
Now Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer, James Clyburn, et al, are telling us we can’t drill our way out of this, that we’ll have to wait 10, 15, 20 years for hybrids to be researched, developed and built.
The American people aren’t stupid. They aren’t buying the Democrats’ negative message. They’re just looking at our ability to solve problems.
They’re thinking about how we will solve this problem, with or without the Democrats’ help.
Technorati Tags: Gas Crisis, Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer, James Clyburn, Bill Clinton, Reform, ANWR, Litigation, Election 2008
Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog
August 7th, 2008 at 7:52 am
Gosh, I wonder why they call it the FUTURES market?
And the socialists that run nearly every DEQ and land use department will have a field day with this, not to mention the envirowhackos, let alone the judiciary who believe the Constitution is whatever they feel like saying it is on any particular day.
August 7th, 2008 at 10:49 am
The constitution is just an inconvenient document they have to sort of follow. It was nice for those guys in 1787, but that was then, this is now.
August 7th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
The 9th Circus Court hasn’t followed it in years, not a word of it. I seriously wonder if they all happened to sleep through their Constitution courses when in school, and whether they ever took any English courses, ’cause if they did happen to read it they sure didn’t understand the language therein. It’s almost as if they flunked their ESL courses.
August 8th, 2008 at 7:58 am
Thats not the point Carlos.
They just consider it irrelevant as written. In their, inflated liberal egos and thinking, they have progressed beyond the printed word. Thats why they insist it is a “living” document.
If it was what it is; printed words on paper with fixed definitions based in natural law, they could not justify the amazing leaps of logic and reason they come up with.
Thats also why evolution is their religion. Nothing can be static in the liberal mind. FDR is a conservative to them, a quaint thinking old fellow who kind of had the right idea.
Guys like us are the problem. What are they going to do about us. Wait for us to die, or come up with things like a new fairness doctrine to keep us quiet.