What’s Obama got against the East Coast, from Delaware to Florida?  Looks like between dragging “clean” coal out of the Appalachians, polluting the entire area with fly ash, and sucking out all the oil from under the East Coast, six or eight states will simply be sacrificed to energy guzzling. Then the Gulf shores will be next, and after that the shoreline from California north to Alaska. 
  As long as the old black energy sources are paid to keep on guzzling, where’s the impetus and the money to develop green sources?

RdV:
Well jackass, you’re wrong about the polls.

Get out of the welfare office and hang out with taxpayers for a while and you’ll know what I mean.

Progressives throwing Obama under the bus for championing Right-wing policy?

  Guessing by the corporate worshipping rfidler, genuflecting before the throne of the free market long after it has been exposed as a criminal fraud, it seems they have a new hero to add to their pantheon of bankers, lobbiests, and oil and gas overlords.
  Check the polls and choose an issue from the environment to healthcare, jackass, the majority of the country is to the Left of Obama.

This is throwing the right a bone.

The drilling won’t even be able to begin for at least 2-5yrs. 

After the republicans screaming about getting walked over with the health care legislation, this is politics.  They can’t argue against it. They can’t vote against it.  So they kinda have to accept it.

Its also a practial move to at least show that he knows he has to do something now while the green jobs are being created.  Even though there is probably not enough to make a significant difference in foriegn oil consumption.

I just LOVE watching you progs throwing Obama under the bus. You are all so naive!

You can’t sit around a coffee house in Sausalito talking in your echo chamber, or consulting your fringe media about the great progressive awakening and, presto, make it so.

The plain fact is, the American public is much more conservative than you want them to be, and not nearly as stupid.

The plain fact is, corporations are not as evil as you want them to be, and are a lot better at solving ANY problem than government bureaucrats are.

All I can do is add my voice to the chorus and agree it is more of the same.
  Is there anything or anyone this asswipe isn’t willing to throw under the bus to pander to the “savvy businessmen” masters? The Environment is just another example in a growing list of daily assaults from education to women’s rights to the environment to foreign policy. Yet there will be those claiming to speak for the Left like Katrina Vanden Heuval and other “limosine liberals” from “The Nation” who continue to champion Obama’s health Insurance plan as historical reform. And people wonder where the Left is? They gush over Obama with school girl crushes, seemingly infatuated with their superficially politically correct hero. Obama appeals to these “progressives”, like the predictably capitulating Dennis Kucinich (so how is that voting in progressives working out?)by claiming he is the victim of Right-wing forces out to destroy his presidency. Yet all the while he is promoting Right-wing policy—anticipating those progressives—who actually represent the majority view, will fall into line.
  One is left to suspect that if the Right opposed creating a holiday in memorializing Dr King, Obama would beat them to the punch.
  What bothers me the most is so many progressives feel the need to temper their criticism—including Mr.Scheer, always excusing Obama with caveats of every variety. They can’t quite bring themselves to condemn Obama for the exact same things they would rave against Bush for. I am not so sure we are better off in that case. At least with Bush, the Left didn’t hesitate. Obama uses the opportunity to ram thing through—and then holds a big PR blitz and everyone jumps aboard celebrating “historical reform” that is just another backroom corporate deal- with a pathetic bone tossed as significant progress and a promise for real change in the future.
  Obama may feel like he made history becoming the first African-American to reach the Whie House—but how will history judge him when he is little more than a sevile pawn of the power-broker masters?

So.. here’s a wild scenario.. what happens when even one small parcel of these new leases.. maybe within sight of Ft. Lauderdale.. is taken up by a Chinese firm, they hire zero Americans to do the work, bring in a jack-up rig built in Tampico, Mexico.. float the crude to Venezuela to be fractured and (you get the point).. Will this result in any backlash for Obama flip-flopping on these core issues?

  There’s nothing in place to prevent any such action.. And Our Global economy will suck up any new production here or anywhere in the world.. What’s the statistic? China alone may need the capacity to several more Saudi Arabias in the next decades? Whatever they get on these new leases won’t matter to average Americans, there will still be no difference in the price of crude taken from the bloody sands of Iraq and shipped halfway across the globe .. than that produced by the good old boy patriots in Iraan, TEXAS!

  I think it’s hilarious that the rethuglicans are as angry and stand-offish over this decision as any previous move by Obama. Even though it looks like one of their ideas! My friends who are die-hard Obama groupies insist this is all part of the President’s plans to bring the country together for real change in the right direction..

Hopefully, they are right! Otherwise it looks as if Obama is so giddy at the reality of there being no one of either (or any) party who looks to be able to challenge him in 2012 that he is playing pinball with the people who elected him.. just for fun!

Adios!

Why is anyone surprised?  This guy proposes to drill for more oil so we can bridge the time it takes to get our green tech industry “up and running”.  This is the same guy who, pretty much, trashed Copenhagen.  This is the guy who has done all these anti-progressive things since he became president.  No one should be surprised by this announcement.  It is classic Obama!

Who is this poseur who dares to disenfranchise the majority voters who rejected
the Republican agenda in 2008?

Obama does whatever his corporate sponsors want him to do, it’s that simple.

Obama cuts the throats of environmentalists, panders to big oil, and pockets a bundle for his Democratic right.