This is the latest Democrat mantra. Now I'm no genius, but I do have a fairly competent grasp on history. It seems that when I was a boy this country faced an energy crisis. Our national response was to build the Alaskan Pipeline to access the oil fields of Prudhoe Bay. We, in effect, drilled our way out of the crisis. We have oil in ANWR, off the coasts of FL and CA, and oil shale in the Rocky Mountains and Upper Plains. WE HAVE OUR OWN OIL!

I would point out to the Left that "cannot" never accomplished anything.

Who remembers the old cartoon with the mice mobilizing for war against the cat. They sang a song while working. The chorus was, "We did it before and we can do it again." For the youngsters in the crowd, the cartoon was a visual metaphor for America's mobilization in the early days of WW II.

I think the spirit of the cartoon is applicable here.

"We did it before and we can do it again." Drill Here, Drill Now!!

It is amazing. They reject every short-term option because it is not likely to help in the long-term. Then they turn around and reject the long-term solutions because they will do nothing in the short-term. Do you get the impression that they really don't want to solve this problem (which they created to begin with)?

My favorite argument by the left is that all of the oil in ANWR would ONLY give us enough oil to meet all of our oil needs domestically for ONE YEAR.  

Now, regardless of whether or not this is true (a better estimate is 2 - 3 years), we do not get all of our oil from one oil field.  For ONE SINGLE OIL FIELD to produce ALL of the oil that we consume for one year or two years, is an absolutely ENORMOUS amount of oil.  

Saying that it would ONLY provide all of our oil for a full year or more totally defeats the argument that the Left is trying (pathetically) to make.  They always say it as if ONE FIELD providing ALL of our oil for ONLY one year is a small thing, a pittance, a drop in the bucket -- when in actuality it PROVES just how massive the oil field in ANWR really is.

ANWR holds an estimated 16 BILLION Barrels of oil.  Enough to offset ALL imports from Saudi Arabia for 30+ years.

The North Slope, by comparison, was initially estimated at 9 Billion bbl (and has so far produced 13 billion bbl).

Next time any Leftist uses this lame argument, ask them to name a larger oil field.

They want the economy to go into the tank. They want more victims, more needy, more voters who will buy their promises. They want socialism, just ask Maxine Waters.

SoldiersMum wrote:They want the economy to go into the tank.  They want more victims, more needy, more voters who will buy their promises.  They want socialism, just ask Maxine Waters.

You spelled her name wrong.  It's been changed to Marxine Waters.   

You're absolutely right.  They want more victims.  Victims of a bad economy, that can be provided more government services, become dependent upon them, become wards of the State, and, thus, become Democrats for life.

Also, though, I'm really beginning to wonder if it's not more nefarious than that.

Marxine Waters only said aloud what all the Democrats are thinking.  They want to nationalize the oil industry.  This could be called "Socialism" only because it is limited in scope to one industry.  The only difference between Socialism and Communism is degree.

If you can nationalize one industry (or two, if you count Healthcare) because things aren't going well, then why not three or four industries?  Why not all of them?  When all industries are run by the State, that is the DEFINITION of Communism.

If one wanted Communism in America, how would one go about it?  Force the economy to fail, and claim that it is the fault of the Free Market System.  Do this one by one, with the largest industries first, and then it becomes "reasonable" to nationalize ALL industry.  Once four or five large industries are nationalized, and this is accepted; there is no longer any reason not to nationalize the rest.  This final nationalization -- the jump from Socialism to full bore Communism -- could literally happen overnight.

Really, what's to stop it.


(said as the atheist begins to pray)

paleocon wrote:It is amazing. They reject every short-term option because it is not likely to help in the long-term. Then they turn around and reject the long-term solutions because they will do nothing in the short-term. Do you get the impression that they really don't want to solve this problem (which they created to begin with)?

No they don't want to solve the problem. I saw George Will on H&C last night, and he hit the nail on the head. The Left wants to paint America into a corner, so they can justify gas rationing. They want the situation to get so bad that people will accept any solution, even a horrible one. If they can get people to swallow this rape of personal liberty, a socialist economy and communist government will be a breeze.

Soldiersmum and Eyas,

I agree. It is easy to believe Dems are dumb because they say such dumb things. But, there is mounting evidence that this is an orchestrated strategy on a grand scale. I loathe conspiracy theories, but if it walks like a duck.

From a website called Baldilocks that I was directed to:



June 17, 2008
A Month in the Life of a Bogus Democrat Meme

Various Democrats parroting the talking points on solving the gasoline crisis:

"We can't drill our way out of this." Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL), US Senate, Party Whip, 5/13/2008.

"We can't drill our way out of this." Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), US House of Representatives, roughly 5/23/2008 on FBC's Cavuto On Business.

"We can't drill our way out of this." Senator Harry Reid (D-NV), US Senate, Majority Leader, 6/10/2008.

"We can't drill our way out of this." Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), US House of Representatives, Speaker of the House, 6/12/2008.

"We can't drill our way out of this." Senator Patty Murray, US Senate, 6/13/2008.

"We can't drill our way out of this." Senator Barack Obama (D-IL), US Senate, 2008 Democrat Nominee for President of the United States, 6/13/2008.

"We can't drill our way out of this." Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND), US Senate, 6/15/2008 on FNC's Fox News Sunday.

"We can't drill our way out of this." Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA), US House of Representatives, 6/16/2008 on FNC's Hannity & Colmes.

"We can't drill our way out of this." Bob Beckel, Liberal political commentator, 6/17/2008 on FNC's Fox and Friends.

These aren't the droids drillings you're looking for.

Well. It's nice to see that all the players have learned their line well, but rote repetition of a falsehood or an unproven assertion doesn't increase its truth quotient. Its truthiness quotient is another story, however.
Rush Limbaugh noticed before I did. That's why he gets paid the big bucks.



by the way, I HATE the word "meme".  I'm not sure why.

bedbug wrote:Soldiersmum and Eyas,

I agree. It is easy to believe Dems are dumb because they say such dumb things. But, there is mounting evidence that this is an orchestrated strategy on a grand scale. I loathe conspiracy theories, but if it walks like a duck.

I hate conspiracy theories, too.  I had never believed a single one until the past year or two when I began to believe in President Bush's Globalist Agenda, and to connect it to groups like the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) and the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), and the joint goal of these groups and the Bush Administration to oversee the formation of the NAU without any input from the American People.

When thinking about "Conspiracies" it seems to make little difference whether one parses the definition, and instead calls it a "cabal".  In politics today, it's a distinction without a difference.

The Communist Party has a long history in this country, and I think we've all seen the "Goals of Communism" from The Naked Communist that were entered in the Congressional Record in 1963.  
See here: http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm


Whether it's Hillary Clinton's mentorship by Saul Alinsky, or this news from WorldNetDaily:

The mysterious "Frank" cited as a friend and adviser by Democratic president contender Barack Obama while he was growing up in Hawaii has been identified as Frank Marshall Davis, a member of the old Moscow-controlled Communist Party USA.

There's clearly an unbroken line of descent from the Communists of the past to the Communists of today.  A Cabal/Conspiracy with an ever-shifting membership which has maintained organization and goals over more than a century from the Fabian Society on down.

It's hard to believe; however, remember Sherlock Holmes and Occam's Razor --

Sherlock Holmes: "Whenever you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be true."
Occam's Razor: "All other things being equal -- the simplest hypothesis proposed as an explanation of phenomena is the most likely to be true."

Communism is an Open Society whereby there are no classes; everyone is equal. Socialism is the first step to communism where you take everyone in the country, divide them into classes, then slowly and systematically you destroy the very fabric of society to the point where you go into an actual Open Society for the common good.

Karl Marx co-authored the Communist Manifesto. It is his version of communism. The remarkable thing is that Comrade Gyorgy Soros and Comrade Karl Marx are two peas in a pod. Both were Jewish born in Germany. Both had parents who changed from Judism to Christianity. Both moved from Germany to England. Both developed their own version of the Open Society. Both label their Open Societies Democracy (which they don't resemble). Both are highly labor union intensive. The difference is that Gyorgy used Capitalism to become mega rich whereas Karl died poor.

Barack Obama is Gyorgy's chosen one. Barack is nothing but a street organizer for one of his low life but communist organizations, ACORN. He has been groomed. He has his marching orders. He has his script. He is the Messiah come to save the downtrodden, save the blacks, save the world and give us all communism. With the mainstream media in his pocket and the Fairness Doctrine in place, who will know what they are up to until it is already a done deal?

They are trying to take down the country in preparation for the Messiah to give us the Open Society. People are so very stupid to worship him, to listen to his cool talk and to vote for him.