Republican response as President Obama moves to expand oil and gas drilling

Yes on a mass scale electric cars can actually cause more pollution but at that scale we would at a level where oil dependency would be dramatically lower.

Why the public refuses to demand or look to available electric vehciles is truly astonishing.
I have bought my first electric car (Nissan Leaf) and love it. But all my neighbors refuse to get one despite the credits that bring it down to only $19,950 before tax.
Yes the range isnt enough to go extremely long distances but the savings is amazing: $1.60 for a full tank. The charging only takes 30 mins

Shame on the public wining about oil companies who are only doing what they are meant to do...make profit by any means necessary. If you want to kill them off then all the public has to do is stop depending on them. Until then: :nopity:

They are raking in billions in profits. It is absurd to provide them with subsidies and incentives.

Car companies are in bed with big oil. Why do you think there are so many SUVs and big trucks everywhere?

I do not understand it. I think that in the light of killing Bin Laden Obama thinks his poll numbers are untouchable? The GOP will never give anything in return, votes included.

and gas state Dems.

if he paid any goddamned attention to his base, he'd notice them yelling "Stop compromising!" at him. Hell, most of the moderates and independents I know want the same thing.

How did the smart, charismatic stumper we elected turned into President Milquetoast?

Compromise is triangulation towards capitulation. That's it. There is nothing good in the way Obama compromises, he has neither principles he will stand up for or constituents he will not betray. He's useless if he can't find his spine.

What I want in my next Democratic nominee is a promise that compromise is a four-letter word and he's going to eat Conservatives for lunch and shit all over the GOP.

I doubt it will be anybody currently prominent. In some sense, that was the appeal behind Obama: he sounded like a political trench-fighter and he wasn't an insider Democrat.

He's actually a pushover who is merely a talented orator and how very quickly he became buddy buddy to the insiders who need to become outsiders. The GOP if you haven't noticed are handing us dominance for the next 20 years by being crazy and we're handing it right back by not taking the mandate to crush conservatism to death. If this guy doesn't get his head out of his ass, it's going to be 40 years in the desert before we get this kind of mandate again. The agenda he's compromising away is the one he was elected to stand resolute upon. Literally. He wasn't elected to be pragmatic or thoughtful, he was elected to stop the conservative slide into the death of America, repudiate Bushinomics and bring us into the 20th century on progressive social values.

If we can't do better than his guy, we might want to consider that it be time to fold.

God help us.