Couldn’t Resist

Anyone know someone in Staten Island named Sabrina? Yeah, well she has a dumb friend.

Frank Rich on McCain

Rich has an interesting editorial arguing that the fact that people think they’ve seen to much of Obama has thus far shielded McCain from actual scrutiny. Some excerpts:

With the exception of McCain’s imprisonment in Vietnam, every aspect of this profile in courage is inaccurate or defunct.

McCain never called for Donald Rumsfeld to be fired and didn’t start criticizing the war plan until late August 2003, nearly four months after “Mission Accomplished.” By then the growing insurgency was undeniable. On the day Hurricane Katrina hit, McCain laughed it up with the oblivious president at a birthday photo-op in Arizona. McCain didn’t get to New Orleans for another six months and didn’t sharply express public criticism of the Bush response to the calamity until this April, when he traveled to the Gulf Coast in desperate search of election-year pageantry surrounding him with black extras.

Bad Democrats! No!

From HuffPost:

WASHINGTON — Democrats’ stance against offshore drilling has shifted more, with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi signaling on Saturday her willingness to consider opening up more coastal areas to oil and gas exploration. In her party’s weekly radio address, Pelosi said opening portions of the Outer Continental Shelf for drilling would be a part of energy legislation that House Democrats intend to put forward in the coming weeks to address oil dependence and high gasoline prices. Lawmakers will be able to “consider opening portions of the Outer Continental Shelf for drilling, with appropriate safeguards, and without taxpayer subsidies to Big Oil,” said Pelosi, D-Calif.

Let’s review our Department of Energy report, care of the New Yorker:

…The Department of Energy estimates that there are eighteen billion barrels of technically recoverable oil in offshore areas of the continental United States that are now closed to drilling. This sounds like a lot, until you consider that oil is a globally traded commodity and that, at current rates of consumption, eighteen billion barrels would satisfy less than seven months of global demand. A D.O.E. report issued last year predicted that it would take two decades for drilling in restricted areas to have a noticeable effect on domestic production, and that, even then, “because oil prices are determined on the international market,” the impact on fuel costs would be “insignificant.”

WHY ARE THEY STILL PANDERING TO THE LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR. I, for one, am deeply disappointed in Pelosi’s spineless refusal both to consider impeachment and for her caving into considering an issue she knows is just a political charade that will have effectively zero effect on the oil situation (indeed, it’ll probably make it worse). If you’ll pardon the gender specific epithet, she (along with Obama and the other democrats) needs to grow a pair and “just say no” to offshore drilling.

Picture of the Day; August 17th, 2008

AKA “Worst Analysis Ever”

 

Oh yeah, Phelps won his eighth gold last night. Woot.