How To Twiddle Your Thumbs When They're Up Your....

If the Republicans ever regain control of the U.S. Senate in his lifetime, they will have no excuse for not electing South Carolina's Jim DeMint as Majority Leader.  Here's another reason why (via HA):

Facts are stubborn things when they're allowed to matter.  Particularly when it comes to the source of oil spillage into the planet's oceans.  Sixty-three percent of it - five eighths - occurs naturally.  Given that, how can man-made oil spills be considered "unnatural" or environmentally injurious?  How is it that the seas of Earth were not despoiled from the time of the beginning?  Sounds like "Gaia" has a means of dealing with that little problem.

Numbers are difficult things to overcome when placed in their proper context and perspective.  Perhaps the greenstremists could argue that the drilling portion of that graph - a measly single percent - would be higher if unfettered drilling had been allowed over the last generation, but it's difficult to see the proportions changing very much.  Indeed, tanker spills accounting for 4% seen in light of our imported oil percentage rising to its current 70% suggests that greater domestic exploration would, at worst, take a greater percentage from the tanker slice of the graph.  Given technological advances since the 1970s, which have led to vast and proven improvements in drilling safety, it's likely that that combined five percent would actually go down.  And it could go down even more from the development of oil shale deposits and other land-based sources that would negate any need for water-borne transport.

Hysterical environmentalist obstructionism is, in short, obsolete.  Just like the rest of their rancid, malevolently brain-dead ideology.  And yet majority Democrats continue to sit on twiddle their thumbs:

The accompanying message from Freedom's Watch keeps the "DRILL NOW!" drums a-beating:

It's now been two years since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told Americans that Democrats had a commonsense solution to high gas prices. Average price per gallon when Democrats took control of Congress? $2.32. Now, as the price of gas reaches another record high of $4.11 per gallon (a 77% increase in the last two years!), Americans are growing tired of Congressional leaders twiddling their thumbs while drivers shell out more and more of their income at the pumps.

Senator Barack Obama would've preferred a more "gradual adjustment" in fuel prices. Senator Harry Reid believes all fossil fuels are "dirty" and need to be eliminated. But what these liberal leaders aren't offering is a solution to skyrocketing fuel prices while alternative sources of energy can be developed - and their hand-wringing is having a devastating effect on the American economy.

The liberal 'plan' for alleviating fuel costs seems to be nothing more than twiddling their thumbs while Americans continue to suffer. Sign the petition urging Congressional leaders to stop twiddling their thumbs and take action to lower high fuel prices.

The term "liberal leaders" is an oxymoron.  True leaders are honorable, and have the best interests of those they lead at heart.  Democrats are rulers, not leaders, and see "Us, The People" as fodder, a source of revenue to be taxed, a pool of raw material to be kept ignorant and afraid until they need us to be angry and swell with pride.  To them, we are pawns, our best interests irrelevant to their relentless pursuit of absolute power.

Whether led by Barack Hussein Obama or Hillary Rodham Clinton, the Democrats will lead America to economic ruin, with the runaway energy costs their environmental extremism have misbegotten fueling the decline.

Which makes this story such a striking contrast:

There are two prohibitions on offshore drilling, one imposed by Congress and another by executive order signed by former President Bush in 1990. The current president, trying to ease market tensions and boost supply, called last month for Congress to lift its prohibition before he did so himself.

But [WH spokesman Dana] Perino said Bush no longer wants to wait. She pinned blame on the leaders of the Democratic Congress, noting that no action has been taken on this issue…

Bush says offshore drilling could yield up to 18 billion barrels of oil over time, although it would take years for production to start.

I agree with Michelle Malkin and her protege - why, after all this time, all their Bushophobia, all their vicious partisan rancor, would the President passively defer to congressional Democrats to act first on something on which he KNEW they never would?  John Sith McCain can't take immediate action other than to promise to DRILL NOW!, but Dubya sure as heck can.

This is the same "New Tone"/"reaching out"/"bipartisan" drivel that got his once-courageous attempt at entitlements reform eradicated three years ago.  If the DisLoyalists hadn't been even more numbskulled than their boogeyman last year, it would have cost us victory in Iraq.  Now, with a domestic wedge issue of bibical proportions falling into the GOP's lap like overripe fruit, how could GDub STILL defer to the Dems first instead of acting "unilaterally" to shove it straight up their collectivist ass?

I suppose the miracle is that he acted unilaterally at all.  And whaddaya know, the day after Bush lifts the anti-drilling Executive Order, oil prices drop $9 a barrel.

Just watch, that'll be one of the articles of impeachment for the President's Senate trial this Christmas....