Obama Says Drill Baby Drill!!

Once again the line is blurred. I’m feeling oh just a little betrayed, but that seems to be the cost getting anything done in Washington. All the southern coastal conservative states are getting their drilling rights, just like John McCain and Sarah Palin promised. The question is, has President Obama made a new backroom deal in exchange for support of the Climate Bill that’s looming on the horizon, or is this just a clear case of “Oops, I thought I was reaffirming the drilling ban, you know… what I campaigned on… who changed the wording here??!! Rahm what did you do to me??!!!” No such luck...

This carefully calculated return to drilling is tragic if not laughable. We have a continued ban on drilling for the liberal states that oppose it, i.e. the whole west coast and the liberal elites from New Jersey to Maine, while the states that all voted for McCain can pollute their coastlines to their little hearts content- the latest version of “win-win” I suppose.

This geo-political executive gerrymandering could be the new vehicle for getting everything done. Just give people what they want in the states where they live- wow! Why didn’t he think of this sooner? He could’ve had full bi-partisan support for health reform if any state that didn’t want it could just say “No thanks”. We could even initiate geo-political tax distributions. If a state opts out of a government program, everybody’s income tax in that state could be prorated lower- and vice versa.

The states that want nothing would pay no taxes at all, except of course for defense, social security, Medicare, interstate highways, bridges, federally funded airports, trains, flood control dams, inland waterway maintenance, park subsidies, main street renovations, environmental pollution remediation, border patrol, coast guard rescue, drug interdiction, federal crime prosecution, human rights abuses, veterans rights, ADA enforcement, US Postal Service, education, student loans, and several other minor items I didn’t think of!

Applying federal guidelines in such an obviously political way is a slippery slope- one I would not even want to ski down! Shame on you President Obama!