Obama Says Drill Baby Drill

Now it's o.k. since The One says so. All of the MSM's kvetching and hypocrisy from the last 20 years means nothing apparently. If the god in the White House says it fine, then it's fine. Of course the nutbags that supposedly represent the environment are ticked, but all of a sudden Blinky and her minions are quite content to appease the president in his supposed "move to the right," obviously in an ill-fated effort to appease the Republicans (like he cares) in the hopes of being "Clinton-esque." It is an election year, after all. But, unfortunately for the president and the economy, the plans for the 200-mile offshore radius isn't enough. Although drilling in this area "may contain as much as 80 percent of the available oil and gas reserves on the outer continental shelf – up to 63 billion barrels of recoverable oil and 294 trillion cubic feet of recoverable natural gas." He's still worried about the poor wildlife in Alaska, it seems.

As mentioned, House Majority Leader John Boehner and the Reps aren't happy.
"The Obama administration continues to defy the will of the American people who strongly supported the bipartisan decision of Congress in 2008 to lift the moratorium on offshore drilling not just off the East Coast and in the Gulf of Mexico, but off the Pacific Coast and Alaskan shores as well."

But in fairness to the president, it really is a good start. I think Boehner may want to ease of just a tad and support Obama on this one, at least in the short-term to see where it goes.