Bush threatens to veto drilling bill

[Enrique]

Source: CNN

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/17/white.house.energy/

The administration accused House Democrats of lacing the bill with "poison pills" that demonstrate a "lack of seriousness about expanding access to the vast domestic energy resources" off U.S. coasts.

President Bush and Democrats have been tangling for months over drilling offshore in an area known as the outer continental shelf, which had been placed off-limits both by Congress and executive order for decades. Bush lifted the executive order this summer as oil prices shot up and gas prices reached record levels at the pump.

He called on Congress to lift its ban but expressed "strong opposition" to the bill passed Tuesday.

The House bill passed by a vote of 236-189. After months of resisting pressure to allow oil and gas exploration off America's coasts, the Democrats yielded and included provisions to allow more offshore drilling. Watch why the Republicans object to the bill »

But the legislation includes a number of provisions Republicans do not like, including a repeal of tax cuts for the oil industry and a lack of incentive for states to allow drilling off their shores.

"Many of the other provisions contained in this bill are taken from other House bills that failed to pass through the Congress, or have been subject to veto threats," the Executive Office of the President said in a statement Tuesday night as the House voted on the bill, officially known as House Resolution 6899.

"If H.R. 6899 were presented to the president, his senior advisers would recommend that he veto the bill," the White House said.

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Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/17/white.house.energy/

[villager]

1. Great! Let 'im!

n/t

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

2. There it is.

As predicted.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

3. "Don't Drill, Baby, Don't Drill!"

:rofl:

[Supersedeas]

27. the Oil cronies aren't even using the offshore sites that they have!!

[billyoc]

4. What's he want, MANDATORY drilling?!

What a dick.

[tekisui]

5. Dems, go get the frame on this!

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

6. Frame, as in...

...unjustly fingered for a crime...

or

...properly catapulting the propaganda?

[tekisui]

8. As in Dems, please frame this as more petulance and

hypocrisy from the repukes!

the propaganda one. but it runs the risk of the Dems suffering from the other.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

9. Ah, "get!..."

Got it.

[Robbien]

7. If this bill isn't passed, the moratorium bill on drilling expires.

Drilling can proceed without restrictions.

[54anickel]

11. Yes, interesting isn't it? Who's really involved it the game being played here?

Someone's not being honest and forth coming with the rest of the story.....

[Robbien]

14. Yup. Congress is playing a game here

No one there cares about the drilling.

They only care how the guy in the other party gets slimed.

[Enrique]

16. it's no secret who's involved

Bush, the republicans, and their Big Oil masters want to defeat this bill.

[54anickel]

26. I think you missed the point of my reply to the post from Robbien above

If this bill isn't passed, the moratorium bill on drilling expires.
Drilling can proceed without restrictions.

It's a game, a partisan show being put on by each side to gain favor with the electorate. No one is being honest about the end result which is...

moratorium expires/drilling proceeds.

[sandnsea]

13. I saw that last night too

As fucked as their policies clearly are, they just keep barreling along in the ditch headed for their bridge to nowhere. It's unreal.

[safeinOhio]

19. Restrictions?

All the ships that set up the platforms are booked for the next 7 years. All the metal for casings and bits comes from China, so there is a long wait for that too.
The only thing that Big Oil wants are those leases->higher reserves->higher stock prices.
WILL NOT be any drilling for 7 to 10 years.

[sinkingfeeling]

10. Let him. If he thinks he'll win in the next 3 1/2 months, he's mistaken. Then after Jan. 2009,

there won't be enough Repubs to play basketball.

[denverbill]

12. Bush Blocks Offshore Drilling unless Tax cuts for Oil Companies Allowed!" n/t

[postman07]

15. Perfect

We just need Democrats to pounce on this and point out the failed economic policies and that in a time of crisis Mr. Bush is only about "companies First"

[eShirl]

17. like it or lump it, astro-hole

[Ian David]

18. I knew this would happen. If they don't pass something, the ban simply expires. n/t

[WriteDown]

20. Yep...

That is the plan in a nutshell. Also, you can bet that Bushler will be framing this decision in the press almost immediately to make it sound like the right thing to do.

[Ian David]

21. Before we get too alarmist, I have to say, "So Fucking WHAT?"

1) The oil companies don't want to drill there.
2) The oil companies don't have enough drills to drill there.
3) Even if they wanted to, and had the equipment, they couldn't start to drill before January 20, 2009 no matter how much they wanted to.
4) We can fix all this shit by Febuary 2009.

[Imagevision]

22. Sarah - Sarah, what do you think babe?!?!

[bowens43]

23. good, veto the thing....drilling isn't the solution.

[HopeHoops]

24. WHY do Republicans HATE DRILLING FOR OIL so much?

Yes, that was a joke.

[addicted2politics]

25. doesn't that make the republican look bad? (nt)

[harun]

28. He really does think he is the Emperor of the United States (n/t)

[foxfeet]

29. Yeah, well, the Emperor is nekkid

After all, we've had eight years of looking at (shudder) that.