Someone please explain this to me. We had a Republican President who said he was in favor of this drilling, and he had a Republican House and a Republican Senate for six years. I'd like to know why the Dims aren't proposing legislation to dismantle all the rigs put up during these six years.
ML/NJ
It's very simple. Neither the Republican president nor the Republican Senate or the Republican House had the spine to fight for their agenda and squandered their time in office letting the tail wag the dog. We worked very hard to give the 'Pubbies the majority in both Houses and they repaid us by squandering the advantages due to weak leadership that is afraid of its own shadow. Strong leaders, like Tom DeLay, became political targets of incompetent liberal hitmen, supported by the liberal judges appointed by Clinton or Carter or elected by dumbed down masses.
In an effort to not make the Democrats mad, the Republican leadership refused to use the legislative tools available to them to counter the obstructionist tactics of the left. Frankly, I would have bought ringside seats to see the 'Pubbies stand up to the Dems rather than continually backing down. Frist, notably refused to use the so-called nuclear option to break the stalemate over judge nominees. Now, we are paying the price of these appeasement tactics.
The Republicans, by their own sheer incompetence, mismanagement and abandonment of their conservative philosophies may very well have paved the way for another 40 years or longer as the minority party. This is the legacy the Dems will use against Republicans for the next several election cycles.
They are. The legislation is being proposed as "windfall profits" taxes and additional extraction taxes. They have been barking about this since EOM showed an annual R.O.I. of HALF that of Coca-Cola.
(Of course, they did not put it that way, they just yabbled about how much money it was without saying how much it takes to make it.)