I notice that President Obama proposes more oil drilling. As you might expect almost nobody is happy about this. Environmentalists are against it, of course – no surprise there – but the Republicans, who wanted to drill are against the President’s plan. Because it’s the president’s plan they must oppose it, of course! It’s their way or no way.
I do agree that there’s too much delay built into the plan but overall it’s a reasonable attempt to meet in the middle. I am so extremely tired of the school playground nature of politics. Come on… let’s behave like grown-ups for a change and work this one out.
April 1st, 2010 - 2:38 am
The idea that we SHOULDN’T drill is very much like saying “We want our economy to fail and never recover.” Lets leave out the obvious, gasoline and diesel fuel. Point to anything around you. Anything. It’s got some part made from petroleum. Plastics, paraffin, paints, asphalt, medicine, fertilizer, solvents, pesticides, and petroleum coke. (Which is used to make steel, which is yet another material that you will find in nearly every single thing in your home)
I’m getting tired, myself, of the party of NO, who reminds me too much of a kicking, screaming child wanting things his or her way at the expense of all others.
April 1st, 2010 - 9:57 am
Correction-it’s “The Party of Hell No!”.
This is politics, not kindergarten. It’s about freedom, your tax dollars, the quality of the schools your kids go to, and more.
It’s the job of the opposition to oppose. No Republican was elected to enact Barack Obama’s agenda-and, considering how far left he’s turned out to be, neither was he.
In fact 40-some Democrats in the House won in districts McCain won, while there were just a handful of the reverse.
If Obama’s smart, which is an open question, after the big losses he’ll sustain this November, he’ll do as Clinton did in the identical situation and move towards the center. If not, he’s a sure one-termer.
April 1st, 2010 - 11:07 am
That is almost too bizarre for words – that the most moderate president we’ve had in a long, long time is still considered “far left”. And, “This is politics, not kindergarten.”? Yeah, that’s what I keep saying but you couldn’t prove it based on the behavior of our politicians.
And, to be fair, the Democrats have been just as wacko when they weren’t getting their way – opposing actions that were necessary and even things they would have approved of if one of their own had proposed it, just like the Republicans are doing right now.
Grrrrr… Politics! I think I need to post a recipe or something.
April 1st, 2010 - 11:26 am
Well, how do you define “moderate”?
In polling the public sees Obama as very “liberal” indeed. He’s lost the independents, esp. on heath care.
And when moderates run deficits of $1.5 trillion a year, year after year as projected, surely the word has lost all meaning. Can’t blame it all on Bush, as Obama is so quick to do-he keeps adding more and more spending of his own. A real centrist would actually deal with the deficit, and would’ve offered a health care plan that was both much cheaper and paid for by cutting other spending. If he’d done that, plenty of Republicans would’ve voted for it. He didn’t, and they didn’t.
Sorry-this is what happens when you do political posts. I have a persistent commenter who insists I’m a racist because I see Obamacare as a disaster. I won’t be any more persistent than to post this and to let the subject go.
April 2nd, 2010 - 6:37 am
Actually I would like to do more politics but when someone provides a perfect example of what I was ranting about or expresses admiration for such attitudes the whole exercise seems pointless.
“Moderate” does not necessarily mean “centrist”. It can be either Left or Right but not far Left or Right and most importantly moderates are willing to listen and sometimes compromise. Obama’s oil drilling proposal is a compromise. Far Left wants no drilling at all and Far Right wants unrestricted drilling. I was talking about drilling here, not health care.