It seems that Democrats will do anything to prevent offshore drilling, perhaps believing that the oil will magically leap into refineries and lower gas prices by wishing. Tonight, they even angrily ended an Appropriations Committee meeting rather than debate the issue.
It is in the Democrats favor to keep you as miserable as possible until the November election. You thought they’d stop being obstructionists when they took the majority? Think again. All you’ve got is obstruction when you have no solutions.
Rep. Jerry Lewis, R-Calif., offered a bill that would limit restrictions on offshore drilling as an amendment to the 2009 spending bill for Labor, Education and Health and Human Services departments.
“If Jerry Lewis wants to be the chairman of this committee, he can get 35 additional Republicans elected so he can take the chair,” Obey said after the meeting. “Until then, we’re running the committee. And we’re setting the agenda.”
That agenda, time and again, is to keep the US from producing its own oil, and keep us dependent on countries that hate us.
Lewis and Rep. John Peterson, R-Pa., accused Obey of reneging on a promise to bring the drilling bill up for a vote. They argue that allowing more drilling for oil offshore will bring prices down.
Not only will having our own oil on the marketplace bring prices down, merely saying we’re going to get our own oil will immediately cause the price to go down in anticipation of an increased supply. That’s the nature of the Futures market.
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