Reply #5: not a huge victory--it's a tossed bone. it's a little kibuki dance [View All]

like the GOP does with the right and abortion.

In their case, it's always a token loss, so they can use the left as a boogie man.

In our case, it's always the token win, so we can feel like we've scored one on the big nasty oil companies, when they know there's only a couple of months worth of oil up there anyway.

Every once in a while, the GOP threatens to drill, then they back down.

I'd be a hell of a lot more impressed if the same passion was expended on the central problems with oil companies.

Since you are watching CSPAN, has ANYONE in congress talked about what we are doing with Iraq's oil?

Will you even acknowledge that's a bigger issue?

Does it bother you at all that our elected leaders are not talking about why it was so fucking urgent for the Bushies to invade Iraq and who is profiting from it?

Do you have the power of independent thought or do you just react like a trained seal?

In normal times, I would be glad about this ANWR thing, but he touched the edge of a much bigger issue.

It's like someone asking you if you have a date for the prom, then walking away without asking you out.