The Inky Shows Its True Colors, Again

Just for the record, I happen to know of a comment to this screed by Kevin Ferris of the Inquirer attacking Nancy Pelosi on the matter of not drilling for oil that the Inquirer, in its apparent cowardice, refused to publish (though it had no problem with the "fantastic post as usual" bit of fluffery).

The comment appears below (if you're registered with the Inky and you choose to subject yourself to what Ferris wrote, be my guest - Ferris also is critiquing passages of Pelosi's book and stating that she falls short in comparing herself to Tip O'Neill. Also, Ferris' comment about one barrel of oil spilled for about every 156,000 produced according to an author of The Economist is to laugh - solid environmental cred? Not for me)...

So Bush 41 banned coastal drilling in 1990 (a move also favored by Jeb, who was governor of Florida), and we could have been obtaining oil offshore since that time, assuming your argument is correct. Yet Nancy Pelosi hasn't even been speaker for two years, but somehow the inaction on this is entirely her fault?

And why don't you talk about what Patrick Murphy, for example, has proposed. He also moved to stop filling the Strategic Reserve, which happens to be 97 percent full, its highest level ever.

Murphy has also advocated a paid-for federal gas tax holiday which could save an additional 18 cents per gallon and does not borrow from the Highway Trust Fund. To counter big oil companies from pocketing these savings, he has also backed legislation that stops price gouging and artificial increases.

Additionally, Murphy cosponsored the Small Business Investment and Promotion Act which will cut taxes for small business fuel purchases, and increase the tax deduction on fuel for small business owners and independent contractors who use their own vehicles for work.

So yes, Pelosi and the Democrats are trying to do something on the energy mess besides drill, drill, drill. And did I mention that gas was $1.86 a gallon when Bush 43 took over and he and the Republicans have run our government for just about six of the last eight years, yet I don't hear anyone blaming them for our current energy costs?

Oh right, that would invalidate your right-wing talking points and that's why it isn't mentioned. How silly of me to forget that.

Oh, and just for the record (again), Tip O'Neill once called Reagan "the most ignorant man to ever occupy the White House" (concerning the matter of the two of them working together that Ferris mentioned).

Luckily for Tip, however, he didn't live to see Dubya.