Category Archives: Offshore Oil Drilling

Opposition To Offshore Drilling Ban Rises to 55%

Posted on March 8th, 2011

Gas prices have been rising dramatically in recent days, and opposition to President Obama’s continuing ban on oil drilling off the Eastern seaboard and in the eastern portion of the Gulf of Mexico is up from early December when the policy was first announced. A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey finds that 55% of Likely [...]

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House votes to overthrow ‘czars’

Posted on February 18th, 2011

  By: ROBIN BRAVENDER POLITICO The House voted Thursday to dethrone nine White House “czars.”   Republicans successfully added an amendment to the continuing resolution that would leave President Barack Obama’s senior advisers on policy issues including health care, energy and others out of a job. The vote was 249-179. Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) offered [...]

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The stunning decline of Barack Obama: 10 key reasons why the Obama presidency is in meltdown

Posted on August 13th, 2010

By Nile Gardiner The last few weeks have been a nightmare for President Obama, in a summer of discontent in the United States which has deeply unsettled the ruling liberal elites, so much so that even the Left has begun to turn against the White House. While the anti-establishment Tea Party movement has gained significant [...]

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Mark Steyn on Obama

Posted on June 20th, 2010

Mark Steyn: NRO Chris Matthews and the other leg-tinglers invented an Obama that doesn’t exist. Unfortunately, they’re stuck with the one that does, and it will be interesting to see whether he’s capable of plugging the leak in his own support. If not, who knows what the tide might wash up? Memo to Secretary Rodham [...]

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Cap-And-Trick

Posted on June 17th, 2010

Energy Policy: President Obama says the oil disaster proves the need to get off fossil fuels. But before we save the planet, let’s save the Gulf and stop exploiting crises to deny America the energy it needs. Saving the planet is nice, but just how do we plug the hole again? With an abundance of [...]

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That Stench of Rotting Bull is Just Obama’s Oval Office Speech

Posted on June 16th, 2010

By: Jeff Dunetz Biggovernment.com Putting aside for a second the fact that this speech was given about 50 days late, last night’s oval office speech proved that the President is not ready to be honest with the American people. For the first 30 days of this crisis, President Obama was ignoring the fact that the [...]

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Plug the Damn Hole

Posted on May 27th, 2010

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White House in P.R. ‘panic’ over spill

Posted on May 4th, 2010

This Politico article says the Gulf oil spill is threatening Obama’s “reputation for competence.” The writer and I must be living on different planets. Let’s keep in mind a partial list of Obama’s accomplishments.  The Health Care bill.  The Copenhagen climate summit.  The 2016 Olympics.  The Economic Stimulus.  10% unemployment.  Cash for Clunkers.  The auto [...]

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Obama’s Oil Drilling Con

Posted on April 1st, 2010

Below is a brief excerpt from today’s WSJ Print Edition that I wanted to post to tie into a post of mine from several days ago. I said that any Obama proposal on offshore drilling must be put under a microscope to see if any of the details have any nasty surprises and….SURPRISE, SUPRISE!! here they [...]

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