Oops - when "small government" costs Republicans money, worlds collide.

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"After the BP oil spill, the department (U.S. Interior) imposed a temporary ban on exploratory drilling at depths of more than 500 feet (152 meters). While the moratorium was lifted last October, no new deepwater permits were issued until this week.

...Still, (Secretary of the Interior Ken) Salazar warned that if his department does not receive the funding it has requested permitting may not speed up as much as (the oil) industry would like.

'If we don't get the horsepower to be able to process permits under what is now a greater degree of scrutiny, we may never return to the pre-Macondo rate of permitting,' Salazar said after the hearing."

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/02/usa-drilling-permits-idUSN0216152320110302

(Source: Reuters | Image: mikebaird – C.C. License 2.0)

[phantom power]

1. Whoa, that's like when Kirk asked the ship computer to provide exact value for pi.

Does Not Compute
:rofl:

[pscot]

2. Irony.....Sweet.

[pansypoo53219]

3. butbutbut

the rite doesn't get irony. we are screwed.

[Strelnikov_]

4. Reichpublican Congress response . .

How much horsepower do you need to simply rubberstamp?