Dems Screaming “Drill Baby Drill”
As I live and breathe I never expected to hear Democrats aggressively urge the Obama administration to lift the bans on deep water oil drilling, but that’s exactly what’s happening. For one rare political moment in history, some well known Democrat names are not only joining in the chorus calling for less government intrusion, they are actually leading the charge.
James Carville has been making the rounds and, not only is he critical of the Obama response or lack thereof, he is renouncing the moratorium on drilling, loudly. “We’re dying down here” has been his mantra, and last night on Larry King Carville added the reality that Louisiana will be economically devastated by the six month moratorium called for by the Obama administration. He didn’t say the words he helped make famous during the Bill Clinton election campaign, “It’s the economy stupid,” but it wasn’t hard to read between the lines.
Senator Mary Landrieu appeared as well. She told Larry and the world that these companies cannot afford to have the barges sit idle at $500,000 a day. She warned that there are lots of other sites BP and other oil drilling companies can go to all over the world, and they will leave the area and not come back.
A few days earlier another Democrat, Louisiana congressman Charlie Malancon, joined his Republican colleagues before Congress to argue against the moratorium as well. He stated that it would result in the loss of over 20,000 jobs. Just to show that it’s not all sentimental, he also cautioned that in with the collapse of off shore drilling companies and suppliers are the $6 billion they contribute into federal coffers.
Why are the Democrat leaders taking this posture? Because it is the economy, stupid. When it’s on their own turf and they have to bear their own burdens of their own ideology, Democrats really do get it. Much of the time liberals can posture to a focus group with programs that can’t work but often, like the Al Gores of the world, by the time the programs collapse they’ve retired to their $9 million mansions. Views change, however, when one has to live with their own created reality.
You don’t need a PhD in common sense to figure out that most liberal solutions don’t work and that they invariably ignore the long term ramifications of their actions. Every spending program bribed and rammed through Congress ignores the ultimate outcome of deficit spending. Every tax increase ignores the reality that producers won’t sit idly by and have what they produce seized from them. Every job “created” that is another government job doesn’t help the economy in the long term, but rather places a greater strain on the society that has to support it. Democrats know this. Eight-year old children know this. It’s getting a group that believes it is economically removed from the effects to care that is the challenge.
So as an oil spill larger than South Carolina drifts around the gulf threatening wildlife, marshes, beaches, and industries, leading Democrats are taking notice that posturing, spinning, and misrepresenting doesn’t do a thing to actually help resolve the problem. Even Democrat pundits now are getting in line to lambaste the President about the lack of leadership. In the presidential address last evening, Chris Mathews summed up the spin and posturing as “a lot of meritocracy, a lot of blue ribbon talk.” Keith Olbermann observed, “It was a great speech if you were on another planet for 57 days.” Even card carrying liberal Democrats are fed up with watching the oil gush out daily and having the lack of on-site leadership spun as “on it from day one.”
Sometimes we need more than a good speech and sometimes we have to take the right actions. Sometimes Democrats, even liberal Democrats, face reality.
I don’t think Landrieu, Carville, or Malancon are quite ready to endorse the Tea Party movement yet. I do, however, applaud their new mantra of “Drill Baby Drill”, even if the left media hasn’t noticed yet.
Right is right, even when the wrong people are saying it.
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Drill baby spill can lead to spill baby spill. Certain GOP senators from the south (like Alabama’s turncoat) didn`t want to help Michigan so why should Michigan and others help Alabama and LA who benefit from these oil and gas jobs
With the knowledge that Obama does not care if they win or not the Democrats are fearful of losing their do nothing jobs. They refuse to listen to the people, the refuse to read the bills they pass, and they refuse to follow the oath they took to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America. I say vote them out and get rid of all these job hindering spokes of the Democrats. Acorn or whatever they renamed themselves is a great start.