Nanci Pelosi is Actually Being Helpful!

She's preventing votes on any Energy Bills that include drilling on the continental shelf. I'm sure she feels like she is helping Mother, but that's only because she is apparently an idiot or something.

If you pass a bill that the weak-kneed republicans caved on and gave up drilling on 90% of the OCS, that's 90% that would be preserved. Dur.

Instead, you are going to kill it, and the legislative ban will expire, and drilling will be allowed by default, and you know what Ms. Speaker? It will be YOUR FAULT that the EeeeeeeEEEEeeevil OIL Companies are drilling all the evil icky stuff and killing the planet. Because you could have prevented most of it by DOING YOUR JOB.

Oh well, at least it looks like congressional inaction is going to free up an industry to start doing what it should have been doing since Clinton let them ban it, and the price of oil will plummet, followed by the price of gas.

So you see? By being a watermelon jerk, Nanci Pelosi is actually making it easier on your wallet. She's helping the economy by cutting off her nose to spite her face. Good Job, Democrats. I just hope they manage to NOT do anything for long enough that their ban expires, and then they'll look like fools for trying to regulate it again. Hopefully that, plus an election year winding up, will have us in cheaper oil here shortly. Let us pray to that end.

Congressional Gridlock: GOOD!

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edit: as I was driving to work, it occurred to me that they want to regulate everything in your life, including where you get your energy, so badly they are willing to compromise even in the current political climate. I think I gave them too much credit there and I have since (see above) revised my opinion to "inaction through gross incompetence". Get out the vote? How about educate the voters and let the non-voters rot in their own stink!