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Kathianne
08-04-2008, 05:07 PM
Could be an unprecedented political outcome:

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=Yjc3YzNkMWY2ZmMxY2M2MmQzZWRlNzE4MDA3ZWJkMjc=



...When President George W. Bush eliminated the executive moratorium on offshore drilling a month ago, effectively launching the drill, drill, drill offensive, oil was close to $150 a barrel. Since then, the barrel price has dropped to nearly $120 as futures-market traders anticipate a major shift in federal drilling policy....


Drill, Drill, Drill Is Working
Is there a Republican tsunami in the making?

By Larry Kudlow

As Sen. John McCain and the GOP leadership nationalize the drill, drill, drill message, the Republican party might conceivably be riding a summer political rally. The question of offshore drilling, along with expanded domestic energy production, has suddenly become the biggest political and economic wedge issue of this election. Is there a Republican tsunami in the making?

According to the major polls, Sen. McCain has overcome a big deficit to pull even with Obama. Meanwhile, according to a Rasmussen survey, Democratic party identification has slumped.

While Republicans on the House floor shouted “vote, vote, vote” and “lower gas prices,” the Democratic majority turned off the lights, cameras, and microphones. Determined Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell offered unanimous-consent requests to vote on lifting the ban on deep-water exploration, and the Democrats objected. When McConnell asked Democrats if they’d overturn the ban at $4.50 a gallon, they replied “no.” When he raised the price to $5, $7, and $10, they cried “no,” “no,” and “no.”

On the Stephanopoulos Sunday news show, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi underscored her refusal to allow a drilling vote. Asked about the Republican rebellion in the House, she said, “What you saw in the Congress this week was the war dance of the handmaidens of the oil companies.” She went on to say, “We are spending all of this time on a parliamentary tactic, when nothing less is at stake than the planet, the air we breathe, our children breathe.”

Oh really? Voters have a much different view. Polls suggest that two-thirds to three-quarters of the nation wants to drill. To wit, while a just-released Obama campaign ad attacks McCain as a tool of big oil, McCain has taken his first-ever lead in a Rasmussen tracking poll....

Little-Acorn
08-04-2008, 06:02 PM
Drill, Drill, Drill Is Working
Is there a Republican tsunami in the making?

No, since people will remember that gas prices went up, too, under a Republican administration. Never mind that they went up in response to Democrat blockage of any meaningful reform (drilling, building more refineries, nuclear power, etc.). Democrats in and out of the media will emphasize the former while ignoring the latter.

The author seems caught up in the quaint fallacy that if Republicans do things right, people will vote for them. Since when? If the oh-so-trusted media says the Republicans were wrong, then they were wrong and the people will vote accordingly, as usual.

They might vote against Obama due to his extreme liberalism - greater than any major Presidential candidate has ever pushed. But they won't vote for a Republican because of lowering gas prices or success in Iraq... because they will never know about it, or at least never know who was responsible.

glockmail
08-04-2008, 07:05 PM
...When President George W. Bush eliminated the executive moratorium on offshore drilling a month ago, effectively launching the drill, drill, drill offensive, oil was close to $150 a barrel. Since then, the barrel price has dropped to nearly $120 as futures-market traders anticipate a major shift in federal drilling policy....


Gee, where are all the libs who said that drilling in ANWR wouldn't reduce prices more than a penny or two, and that it would take ten years? The price just dropped 25% by taking about drilling there, and elsewhere (just like I predicted it would).

Sitarro
08-04-2008, 11:40 PM
I paid 3.56 last night before the BIG threat of a joke tropical storm hit could give them an excuse to raise prices.

Hobbit
08-05-2008, 12:05 AM
Gas around here has dropped around thirty cents a gallon in the past couple of weeks. Imagine how much prices would drop if we actually started drilling.

Oh, and as far as the media is concerned, I think their fawning over Obama is the final straw in their monopoly over people's thoughts. It's been a long, slow death, but it's finally gotten to the point where few people trust them anymore. It's morning. The sun's up, and the American people are now looking at the fugly whale making them breakfast, wondering what the hell they were drinking that actually got them to go through with it.

DragonStryk72
08-05-2008, 12:22 AM
Gee, where are all the libs who said that drilling in ANWR wouldn't reduce prices more than a penny or two, and that it would take ten years? The price just dropped 25% by taking about drilling there, and elsewhere (just like I predicted it would).

See, people just underestimate what it takes to get things going in the right direction. Most of the time, you don't need to completely overall, you just need to let people know that there's a way to go, and they'll go. I mean, crap, we convinced people to settle the west, even with the horror stories.

PostmodernProphet
08-05-2008, 04:30 AM
No, since people will remember that gas prices went up, too, under a Republican administration. Never mind that they went up in response to Democrat blockage of any meaningful reform (drilling, building more refineries, nuclear power, etc.). Democrats in and out of the media will emphasize the former while ignoring the latter.
hard to say....Carter didn't lose the election because gas prices went up, he lost it because the voters decided he hadn't done anything about it.....

now, gas prices are up again, who will the voters decide didn't do anything about it this time?.....if I was in a district with a Democratic representative who voted to go home for vacation it would take some serious campaigning to get me to vote for him right now....