Well, there's also "Drill Baby, Drill."
I'm still trying to figure out how that's supposed to solve anything, or more to the point, what specifically McCain will do to enable further oil and gas exploration that is currently being blocked by the Bush administration...
Maybe it's not supposed to "solve" anything, and instead is meant to try to lessen the hurt that is going on. The idea that we should do nothing at all, or that the things we suggest to try to do shouldn't be done because they are not, in and of themselves, going to "fully fix" the problem, is IDIOTIC.
It's like being hugely in debt and realzing you could work a part time job to help pay off the debt. But it's not going to "sovle" the problem magically, like suddenly inheriting a million dollars would do. But it's a help, and will make the overall pay down time less. Most responsible adults would still take that kind of step to help themselves. They woulndn't say something as stupid as "Yes, I could work part time at night and turn my 20 years of debt into 15, but that's not solving the problem! So NO, I will not do it." (and then instead sit and whine about how terrible things are for 20 years).
Obviously we need to get off of oil in the long run. But the left seems to keep insisting that we can't even do things that will at least help the situation a little bit. And with no real good reason other than hysterial environmental concerns. That's not to say there are NO environmental concerns.. but they are nowhere near catastophic.
No, drilling all over won't "solve" the problems, but it will help the situation considerably. It will lower our cost of fuel a bit, make us a bit less dependant on other nations for oil. What exactly is the problem? Even if the benefit is extremely small, it's STILL A BENEFIT. Why stand against that?
You really can't blame people on the right for thinking that you guys just stand against it because the higher prices and hurt on the ecomony is GOOD FOR YOU, POLITICALLY. And for no other reason. Playing politics with peoples lives. Pretty bad. Very bad really. And this is the kind of thing that pisses me off the most and has me the most worked up and ranting politics this fall. The constant intellectual dishonesty from the left and their ongoing outright lies and fear mongering and reveling in the misfortune of others, all in some insane belief that if it helps them to win.. it's ALL OK!!
