Posted by
Roxanna M. on Wednesday, June 18, 2008 10:31:32 AM
We've all heard it: We can't drill our way out of this. It's the neverending, oft-repeated mantra of the incompetent dimwits who are largely responsible for the muddle we're in.
Of course they're going to say that. They have no choice. They've prevented drilling for decades, all because they're in thrall to that loud, but exceedingly small minority known as environmentalists, or as I like to call them, flat-earthers. They like to thump their chests and proclaim, "Look, we are saving the earth. Look how good we are. Look at us. Look at us." And, because they were so busy looking at themselves, they neglected to look around and see the harm they have done.
Until now. Now, they are looking it square in the face and squealing in abject terror. "It's not our fault. We can't drill our way out of this. It's all the fault of those evil oil company executives. Boy, just watch us. We're going to make them pay. We're going to take all their profits and if that doesn't work, we're going to take their companies. We're the government. We can do anything we want. Look at us. Look at us."
The reason behind the mantra is simple: if more drilling results in more supply and a lowering of cost, there will be proof positive that democrats have been wrong for decades. And, that is simply not allowed. Their egos, unlike their brains, are far too large to ever admit that they might have been wrong.
If you want a baby nine months from now, you have sex now. If you want a college degree four years from now, you go to college now. If you want to be President of the United States in 2009, you run for the senate in 2004. If you want oil five years from now, you start drilling now. Adults understand this.
Unfortunately, we have a man running for president who doesn't. I refer, of course, to Barack Obama who said that drilling won't help because we're at least five years away from the results of that drilling. So, we do nothing? We just let the problem get worse? This is his solution to a national crisis?
I want, and I don't think I'm alone in this, a president who, when confronted with a serious situation, will actually do something to try and solve the problem. I don't want a man who says, "Since there's nothing that will help now, we're not going to do anything. Next question, sweetie."
Life is what happens to you when you're planning your life, and it doesn't always give us pretty choices. Right now, democrats can choose between admitting they were wrong or watch the American economy and, therefore, America go down the drain.
I'm not sure they'll make the right choice.