Mother Jones - Comments for "The Tippin Point: Congress Caves to Big Oil, Newt Gingrich, John McCain, and Country Music"

This shows that the Democrats are controlled by money. They do not really care for the environment or global warming.

Great! Now that the ban has expired those gas prices should drop back down under $4.00/gal soon; hopefully by this weekend. And those long lines should disappear too! Woooo Hoooo! Not looking forward to spending 1-1/2 - 2 hours sitting in line to pay $4.29/gal so I can get to work next week. Hopefully those prices will drop down to "only" twice what they were when George took office.

Jon says:"blame it on the Crackers". This is not going to sell. The Democractic Party is controlled by Wall Street. Only Ralph Nader offers hope to the Crackers and the masses.

"Only in Harry Reid's Washington could a ban on energy production and the thousands of manufacturing jobs it would create be considered an 'economic stimulus.'

"Somebody needs to ask Harry Reid how blocking private companies from creating good jobs and lowering the cost of energy for millions of American families will do anything to get our economy back on track. No wonder Congressional approval levels are at historic lows and we find ourselves in this economic situation.

"Every Senator who truly cares about an economic recovery should tell Harry Reid to remove this cynical provision from his so-called 'economic stimulus' bill immediately, and if he refuses to do so, they should vote against this bill."

OK, so Newt's 527 actually worked to see that the sunset on the drilling ban actually happened. Fair enough to include Newt in your pantheon.

And Aaron Tippin wrote and 'contributed' a song, or was he hired to compose a song? Do we even know for sure, or we you making assumptions?
If it was a 'contribution', then OK on including him in your 'blame' pantheon. But if it was a commissioned composition, and perhaps he gets a fee for allowing his show-biz persona to become the 'drill' campaign's 'poster boy', then blame him for trying to make the best living he can. Most of us would have to plead 'guilty' on that charge.

Then there's John McCain, who has made numerous statement's in support of letting the sunset provision actually happen.
Is that enough to cause him to be singled out, given that there are a sizeable number of Democrats who have also made statements supporting exactly the same thing?

Maybe Barack Obama should be included in the 'blame game', given that the Washington Post reports: His Democratic rival, Barack Obama, supports limited offshore drilling as part of a bigger overhaul of U.S. energy policy. And we know you can't have even 'limited' offshore drilling with a ban in effect, so clearly Barack is also in favor of lifting the ban..., 'with strings attached' (but there are ALWAYS strings attached when the Feds do anything).
The Post also comments: House Democrats, saying the increased drilling would not be a quick fix for high gasoline prices, had moved to allow limited drilling 50 miles offshore in a bill that passed the chamber last week.

What I see is that McCain is being singled out simply to try to tie him, exclusively, to this issue because he's the Repub candidate this year, while you're letting equally responsible Dems, as well as Repubs, go entirely un-mentioned?
After all, the only difference seems to be in their approach to lifting the offshore drilling ban.

Let's give credit to all those who have it coming, shall we? Not be so selective in such a transparently partisan-Democrat manner?

Just another case of DemoPublicans vs. RepubliCrats.
Not a toenail-trimming's worth of difference between the two.