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8 Random Items for 11/21/2008 #6

So what do you do when you are a lame duck President and the electorate, for two straight cycles, has rejected everything you stand for and they believe you to be an incompetent boob and they have given you the worst approval rating for a sitting President in the history of polling?

Destroy the environment! Why? To help increase domestic energy production! You see, the Bush administration does not trust an Obama administration to place us on the path to energy independence. How do they intend to accomplish energy independence? Well, in the words of one deeply stupid person, "Drill, baby, drill."

Of course, this fire sale of public lands ignores the fact that the oil companies already have leases on millions upon millions of acres on which they are not drilling at all. It ignores that even if we drilled everywhere that could possible be drilled in the US, we could still only replace a fraction of the oil that we import. It ignores the impact to our natural resources, both land and animal. Worst of all, it ignores the fact that all oil drilled here would still be placed on the world market! This is a give away to the oil companies. Nothing less. Nothing more.

Americans have known for quiet some time about the need for energy independence. They had a chance on November 4th to choose the ignorant "Drill, Baby, Drill" strategy. The voters rejected it. The Bush administration is committed to damaging this country, every single day until January 20th. The inauguration cannot possible get here soon enough.

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