Today’s New York Times: Just when freshman House Republicans have finally learned their way to the Cannon Caucus Room, how to vote on a motion to proceed and which commissary serves the best tuna sandwiches, someone back home — worse, someone from their own party — wants to take it all away. “I am taking […]
Tea Party Nation has just blasted out an email blaming Obama for the rising gas prices (login required): As we close out 2010, gas prices in much of the country crept about the $3 a gallon mark. In an interview a couple of days ago, the ex-president of Shell oil predicted $5 a gallon gas […]
Joe Barton apologizing for BP has been the talk of the media and beltway for the past several days, but Barton wasn’t alone. He was just saying what a lot of prominent GOPers are thinking, such as Bill Kristol: Transcript via Think Progress: WALLACE: Question Bill Kristol, is the President standing up to big business […]
From Politico: Alaska’s senior senator blocked legislation Thursday that would have dramatically increased liability caps on oil companies, in the wake of one of the industry’s biggest disasters. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) objected to a voice vote request by Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) on the bill, which would have spiked the maximum liability for oil […]
Just the fact that Obama is considering this is ridiculous: The Obama administration is proposing to open vast expanses of water along the Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the north coast of Alaska to oil and natural gas drilling, much of it for the first time, officials said Tuesday. The proposal — […]
Again – we have become more like a third world nation under the Bush administration than a thriving super power. Republican economics do not work: New government figures show that almost 700,000 children went hungry in the United States at some point in 2007, up more than 50 percent from the year before to mark […]
But I thought John McCain said raising taxes on oil companies would cause them to reduce output and do more harm than good? Apparently not: The increase backed by the Republican vice presidential nominee will, at current prices, raise oil revenue to $11 billion this year — almost twice what the state needs to fund […]
What if Congress went ahead and allowed offshore drilling, but with some provisions. For example, the government now dictates where the oil goes that we drill up. Also the price on that oil is set by the government. In other words, we tell the oil companies they can drill in this land, but there are […]
That’s what we should be seeing in the news, but we aren’t. Instead the media is silent on the Republicans filibustering the funding bill for our troops, all because they want to give the oil companies what they want. Think of every time there was a delay by Democrats in passing the war funding bills. […]
Cenk brings up an interesting point (via Cesca): The oil that comes from that drilling will not be United States property (Republicans aren’t suggesting we nationalize the oil companies, are they?). It will be the property of whichever oil company got the rights to that contract. They can then sell it to whoever they like […]