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 Send to email | McCain admits more drilling is useless in Policy and Politics |  By Thoughts
el 24-Jun-2008 | MSNBC's First Read quotes McCain justifying offshore oil drilling:
Even though it may take some years, the fact that we are exploiting those reserves would have psychological impact that I think is beneficial. In other words, it does nothing, but might sound good to people who don't pay attention to details.
This, my friends, is not what we need in a president. We need a president who is willing to tell us the truth, no matter how unpopular. Drilling for oil won't solve the problem. The problem is that we as a planet, and in particular we as a nation, use too damn much petroleum, and we're going to run out. As the available reservoirs get scarcer, prices will inevitably rise, and it's gonna hurt. There's a reason Obama told the auto-makers in Detroit that their industry is "unacceptable and unsustainable," and there's a reason hybrid cars are flying out of car lots.
The solution is to find new ways to power cars, trucks, boats and planes and to produce electricity. In the nearer term, the solution is to use other means of getting around (bikes, buses, trains, feet) and of getting products to market (eating locally, buying from local suppliers, recycling and reusing, etc.).
If this approach, treating psychological gains as a replacement for real solutions, only extended to McCain's energy policy, we might be able to sustain it. But we've had this for the last 8 years in dealing with security. The nonsensical screenings at airports, especially the wars on nailclippers and liquids, exist to give people a psychological boost but don't actually make us safer. There are a million ways that someone could smuggle a blade or explosives onto an airplane, and focusing on liquids distracts screeners from truly threatening objects.
We invaded Iraq for much the same reason. Rebuilding Afghanistan was hard, but Bush and McCain thought it would be fun and easy to invade Iraq. They figured that, after the cakewalk, they'd get a nice popularity boost, and everyone would forget about the failed hunt for bin Laden.
We need a new direction, not the same cynical policies of the Bush years. It's time for solutions that actually address problems, not ones that merely make us feel like we're addressing them. Read the comments on this post...
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| McCain admits more drilling is useless | | MSNBC's First Read quotes McCain justifying offshore oil drilling:
Even though it may take some years, the fact that we are exploiting those reserves would have psychological impact that I think is beneficial.In other words, it does nothing, but might sound good to people who don't pay attention to details.
This, my friends, is not what we need in a presid [..] Read complete article | | Published 24-Jun-2008 by Thoughts in Policy and Politics
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| Taking McSame to the woodshed | | Nitpicker's Terry Welch puts John McCain in his place:
I'm bothered by John McCain's response to Barack Obama, who pointed out that Webb's remodeled G.I. Bill is something McCain should get behind.…
I feel a true disdain for noncommissioned officers in what McCain is saying when he says the bill would encourage "people not to choose to become noncommissioned off [..] Read complete article | | Published 23-May-2008 by Thoughts in Policy and Politics
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| Hillary is making new friends | | The Washington Post digs in an finds interesting parallels:
Sen. Barack Obama offers himself as a post-partisan uniter who will solve the country's problems by reaching across the aisle and beyond the framework of liberal and conservative labels he rejects as useless and outdated.
But as Obama heads into the final presidential primaries, Sen. John McCain and other Repu [..] Read complete article | | Published 26-Mar-2008 by Thoughts in Policy and Politics
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| McCain, 100 years of Iraq, and the wrong year to stop shooting heroin | | The braintrust at conservative blog RedState is fed up with people complaining about John McCain's enthusiasm for a century more of our awesome Iraqi adventure. Sure, when McCain was asked if he minded 50 more years in Iraq, he responded "make it 100," and sure that'd mean 20 times the devastation to that nation and to our military. But RedState sees it through a different lens:
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| John McCain takes a vow | | In a townhall meeting, John McCain said "I want to look you in the eye: I will not raise taxes." Anti-tax wingnut Grover Norquist declared that this was:
an updated version of "Read my lips, no new taxes"That line of course, was George H. W. Bush's promise, which Bush promptly broke.
Of course, McCain's record in terms of keeping vows is pretty weak. Se [..] Read complete article | | Published 05-Aug-2008 by Thoughts in Policy and Politics
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