Hey, Nancy, how about a light?

[bolverk]

Let's see, take five weeks vacation from August to September, then recess on the 26th of September, just a couple weeks after returning from vacation. I need a job like that. What a sham. No wonder we are having such a hard time getting an energy bill, they don't hang around long enough to do anything about it.

[subdjoe]

Sept 18, 2008 18:14:32 GMT -5 @bolverk said:

Let's see, take five weeks vacation from August to September, then recess on the 26th of September, just a couple weeks after returning from vacation. I need a job like that. What a sham. No wonder we are having such a hard time getting an energy bill, they don't hang around long enough to do anything about it.

I've posted this before, but it is still good:
www.unclejayexplains.com/2007/09/03/uncle-jay-explains-the-news-september-3-2007/

[jgaffney]

They still need a continuing resolution, or the ban will expire on Sept 30. You cn expect something to be cobbled together next week. Don't be surprised if it gets larded up with a bunch of other spending, though.

[jgaffney]

Well, the Dems have decided to let the ban expire. This is from The AP, via Yahoo:

Democrats have decided to allow a quarter-century ban on drilling for oil off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts to expire next week, conceding defeat in an month-long battle with the White House and Republicans set off by $4 a gallon gasoline prices this summer.

Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey, D-Wis., told reporters Tuesday that a provision continuing the moratorium will be dropped this year from a stopgap spending bill to keep the government running after Congress recesses for the election.

Republicans have made lifting the ban a key campaign after gasoline prices spiked this summer and public opinion turned in favor of more drilling. President Bush lifted an executive ban on offshore drilling in July.

"If true, this capitulation by Democrats following months of Republican pressure is a big victory for Americans struggling with record gasoline prices," said House GOP leader John Boehner of Ohio.

Democrats had clung to the hope of only a partial repeal of the drilling moratorium, but the White House had promised a veto, Obey said.

The Dems can rest easy, knowing that their allies in the environmental movement will tie up offshore drilling in so many lawsuits, it'll never get loose. See my previous post in this thread about the actions of the Sierra Club and the Center for Biological Diversity.

Despicable!