The time has come to re-tract. Probably the first time I have ever done this on this website. Opinionated egotists like I am, rarely take anything back. Perhaps I'm maturing...could it be? My Mother said it would happen, someday.

I said yesterday that Sarah Palin could turn down the Veep stop. That it might be a good thing. I said that it would let John McCain off the hook. It said it would give him a chance to choose someone else, like Romney, perhaps.

I was wrong, and I totally retract that unsophisticated and immature statement. I suppose I allowed the Liberal Progressive Cretins to get to me. Not wanting to admit of a chink in our Republican armor, I succumbed to poor judgment and I made a fevered and delirious call.

Sarah Palin will make a good VEEP. Ask any war time flier; you catch the most anti-aircraft fire when you are directly over the target. The left wing lunatics are ranting because Palin is the right choice. This choice marks the most dramatic departure from any Bush control or legacy that John McCain has ever made. It is a departure from all things customarily Republican. It repaints the country-club image of the GOP. It shakes the image of the old white, cigar-smoking  guys party, where women are not welcome. John McCain is establishing, once again, the fact that he is his own man. It says that he is, indeed, a Maverick, determined to shake things up in the center of our Republic.

The scandals are out. She has a Down syndrome child. Some one else will take care of this child, most probably his Dad. Her teenage daughter is pregnant. This is a shameful thing. But the family has established, by their own personal example, that they are pro-life. The only choice here is to have the child, within a loving family, and care for it to maturity. We know about the State Trooper and Palin's sister. So what - big deal. If that is all the Progressive Liberals can find, then there couldn't be much there. Remember George Soros is funding the back ground check on Palin and her family. Money is of no concern.

In his column today Dick Morris says: "Palin has an extensive public record - with more executive experience than Barack Obama or Joe Biden (or McCain, for that matter). She should be judged on her record, same as a man. If she is, she'll survive these charges in great style."

When she speaks tonight, women of all colors and ideologies will resonate with her life and what she has been through as a working mother. How many American mothers have lived the awful horror of learning that they would give birth to a less than normal child. How many American mothers and fathers have lived the concern for a pregnant minor daughter. How many women have realized the helplessness of knowing that all of the crooks you are trying to topple are powerful men in high places ( think Erin Brockovich, Norma Rae and Karen Silkwood as examples). Yet she fought the tough guys and won. The result is a 90% approval rating in her State.

Talk about destroying a glass ceiling. Hillary and her achievements pale by comparison. This lady was not always a Governor with staff to wash the dishes. She wasn't born a mayor, with people to wash and iron the clothes. There was a time when she was a PTA Mom who cooked dinner and then sat down at the kitchen table to eat with her family, and her husband, who is as blue collar as they get. But she isn't just that anymore. I would really like my daughter, if I had one, to know about this lady. I would want my girl to emulate this woman. Like the bumper stickers say in Alaska: Cold State - Hot Governor.

After tonight, we will need to check the polls. We will need to watch for a Republican bounce. I predict it will be a bounce greater than the Democrat Messiah got after his Lincolnesque speech last Thursday.

If I were a Democrat; right about now, I would start being afraid.....and tomorrow morning, I would pull the covers over my head and refuse to get out of bed. Or as Ann Coulter suggests, I'd grow some brains and become a Republican.

To be fair and balanced I have to talk about our new Vice Presidential Candidate Sara Palin. This lady is a dream come true for all conservative Republicans. There is nothing in our dream platform that she wouldn’t absolutely affirm. However, there are a few chinks in our armor that the folks on the other side are going to exploit. Doing them here now, might take the wind out of their liberal progressive sails.

Sarah Palin is a typical working mother of five, including a four month old downs syndrome child. For a typical conservative, working motherhood is not an ideal situation. A mother’s job is pretty well defined and it has nothing to do with glass ceilings and productivity outside of the house. This is especially true of a working mother who shares her household with a working spouse. For conservative republicans, who claim to hold good family values in such high regard, it comes as a problem that the mother of a four month old infant with a serious mental handicap and three other minor children, should be out campaigning for Vice President. Infants need to bond to their mothers. This is especially true in the first year of life. While fathers bring a unique contribution to raising children that is absolutely necessary, mothers are undeniably indispensable during the first six months of an infant’s life. How are we going to justify Sarah Palin running around our fifty states while a hireling takes care of her infant child?

Does the fact that her teenage daughter is pregnant give us an indication of the kind of parenting that goes on in the Palin household? How much supervision was there? How much moral conditioning was there? How much ingraining of good Christian values was there here? Can we preach abstinence to the whole country while not branding it into the minds of our own children? Are the liberal progressives going to have fun with this?  While it has been proffered that mothers serving in the armed forces frequently, in the interest of serving the country, agree to be deployed away from home, while a spouse takes care of infant children. Palin will be back someday, military mothers may not return at all. This still doesn’t justify the missing mother in an infant’s life.

Would it be a good thing if Sarah Palin went to John McCain and said that she was sorry to disappoint and that missing an opportunity to server her country saddened her, but she couldn’t stand the thought of neglecting her infant child while campaigning for VEEP? Especially an infant with special needs.
I think, maybe…..




Reaganite - Glenn J. D'Abreo
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John McCain has chosen wisely.
Sarah Palin will add conservatism to the McCain maverick, go-against-the-grain ticket. She is a Washington outsider with governing experience, so no one can say she is part of the old boy club. She is the quintessential Anti-Biden.

She went up against the GOP in Alaska and got several legislators from her own party in trouble for ethical violations. She supports drilling and drilling in her own State. And, she totes a gun, just like Annie Oakley. She is a lifetime member of the NRA who used to go moose hunting before school with her Dad, something that is really going to annoy some of the liberal progressives out there.

What does she do for McCain’s chances of winning in November?
Well she will make for great TV sound bites. As a mother, she has the same concerns as all American mothers. She wants someone with experience and guts answering that 3:00 AM call when Putin invades Florida or Louisiana, just as every Mom in America does.  Talk about kitchen table discussions; can you imagine the Palin household kitchen table discussions with a 17 year old and a four month old.

I heard a talking head say this morning that if Hillary Clinton put 18 million cracks in the Glass Ceiling, Sarah Palin will add enough cracks to tear it down completely. As someone with five kids, most of whom are under 15 years old, she will do for the GOP what Obama’s talking to his daughters via satellite during the DNC convention did for the democrats. Kids are cute. Kids make great copy.  
Of course, she does not guarantee any swing States with huge numbers of electoral votes. So what will happen to Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin? Are the disgruntled women who do not like what happened to Hillary in the campaign at the hands of the print media and the DNC including Howard Dean, going to vote for an arch conservative just because she is a woman? Will this balance out the vote enough for the GOP to take the big house on Pennsylvania Avenue in November?

How will Sarah Palin stack up against Joe Biden in a debate? Will we see blood like we did when Dick Cheney devoured John Edwards during the VP debate in 2004? Who will be the one doing the blood letting? How well does the country know Sarah Palin? This is the job of the Campaign and the RNC. Palin will have to go on Leno, and Conan and even demean herself by appearing on Letterman. She might even have to suffer an interview with Barbara Walters or a few minutes on The View.

How does McCain reconcile with a running mate who wants to drill in Alaska because she thinks it can be done in an environmentally sound manner? I hope that Palin is not forced to toe the environmental-loon line about the caribou really suffering if we drill in Alaska.

All in all, Sarah Palin is a good choice and I am glad that it was the Republicans who made the follow-up to Geraldine Ferraro, and not the Democrats. Now, maybe, the face of the party will change in the public perception. Now maybe it will change to something other than the country club, old-guys-smoking-cigar- no-women-allowed club that it was always touted to be, by the unfair and unbalanced opposition.

Obama finally has a running mate. One less thing to wait for, with great anticipation. The choice of Joe Biden, while Biden is good man with strong middle class values, is bad for Obama. It was a poor choice which is going to hurt, except in the most devoted circles of Obama fanatics.

First: How does the candidate who promised change from the old style politics, who kept saying that Washington was broken and needed to be flushed out and cleaned up, square with selecting a 27 year veteran of the Senate. Does not Joe Biden belong to the same old boy’s club that Obama-ites rant and rave about? Isn’t this the biggest criticism they have of John McCain and George Bush?  John McCain’s administration would nothing more than Bush’s third term and all the old style p[politics that Obama was going to change….

Second: Biden has Foreign Policy experience. He has some twenty years experience, having been on the foreign relations committee for a long, long time. That is great. Experience is necessary. Experience is vital. But isn’t the very act of choosing a veteran with so much experience tantamount to admitting that the candidate himself is pathetically inexperienced?  Is the little Red Phone, which is dutifully expected to ring at 3:00 A.M. someday, going to be right beside Joe Biden’s bed at the VEEP’s residence?

Third: Was “not choosing” Hillary Clinton, the obvious and almost perfect running mate to unify the Democrats, a sign that Obama is simply not leader enough to reign in Hillary and her Playboy spouse? Was this slight of the only woman in presidential politics to get such a huge chunk of the electoral support, a measure to prevent having what the liberals continue to call Dick Cheney…the real force behind the power? Would Hillary have been another Cheney, and that is what Obama was afraid of?

Forth: How does Obama justify choosing a man who was as determined to invade Iraq as John McCain was. Joe Biden has voted “yes” on every war funding bill. Joe Biden was behind improving the armor plating that Humvees have to protect our troops, while Obama voted against the bill just because it did not speak of time-tables for withdrawal. Wasn’t Joe Biden the guy who said that a timetable for withdrawal was the best thing we could do for our illusive enemy in Iraq?

Fifth: How does Obama explain to all his working class Democrat supporters that Joe Biden was supremely instrumental in changing the bankruptcy laws which were designed to hurt the consumer and benefit the banking industry? Doesn’t the whole Democrat platform reek of helping the poor under-dog, while slugging it to “The Man” in banking who charges you all that interest and who raises your interest rates every time you pay your bill is late? Biden largest contributor was MNBA Corporation…..a huge player in the banking industry which wanted changes in the bankruptcy laws.

Sixth: Let’s see a show of hands by all those who know that Joe Biden’s boy is a registered lobbyist on Capital Hill. R. Hunter Biden is a founding partner of a law firm in D.C. which actively lobbies the Hill. MBNA is paying Hunter Biden very well to be a lobbyist. MNBA is also a major contributor to Joe Biden’s campaign.

Lastly: While everyone has differences during the primary campaign, these differences are usually policy differences. Ads come out proclaiming how one candidate is different from the other on foreign policy or economic policy or energy policy or health care for the poor unwashed. But, every single one of Obama’s opponents proclaimed that the main reason they were better for the job than Obama was because he was so pathetically inexperienced. Joe Biden was unequivocally vocal about this. Sure, the GOP is going to have a similar problem if and when McCain chooses Romney to be his running mate. But again, their difference was policy differences. Neither one said that the other was inexperienced.

So Biden comes with some good, but he comes with a  great deal of bad, and McCain and the GOP are going to make hay while the sun shines…..just wait for next week.

As we go about our daily business, fill our tanks with gas and complain, moan and groan about our mortgage crisis, complain about the economy, try and guess who the candidates are going to choose as running mates, watch the Olympics in high definition and cheers our favorite teams, please let us pause to take a moment to remember our fallen heroes from the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan. There are Moms, Dads, Kids, Spouses, Siblings, and Friends hurting from having giving the ultimate. Say a prayer, if you are into praying, for those hurting from the loss of a beloved soldier. Casualties in our current wars quickly become a statistic. A mere number. Please do not let this happen.

Also please visit http://www.iraqwarheroes.org/ and leave comments for families.

Express your gratitude and your admiration. Freedom isn't free and these families have paid the heavy, painful price, for us all.

This week the candidates are taking a break from the economy. The focus seems to have shifted to the war and early withdrawal. Again. John McCain wants to win. He will withdraw our troop after we win the war. He has defined winning as having Iraq able to defend itself from any kind of insurgent pestilence. Winning would be achieved as soon as American troops are totally redundant. When all we need is a small contingent to protect our Embassy. Most of the country agrees with this. Most of the country does not want a panic withdrawal from Iraq before it’s time. Most of the country wants to win the war. Most of the country does not want a repeat of the retreat from Saigon in 1972, with our troop coming home facing the dishonor of not winning.

What does Obama not understand about that? He claims that the Iraqis want us out. He claims that Iraq would be able to protect itself, but just to be safe, our troops will stay in Kuwait and be ready to plunge back in. A third Gulf war. Nice strategy. Spoken like the neophyte that he is. Obama calls this an open ended war. After his glamour trip to Iraq, he could not bring himself to say that the surge had succeeded. He cannot admit to the electorate that violence and casualties have decreased dramatically.

Well, here’s a challenge. Let’s hear Senator Obama say in a speech that he is going to win this war. Let’s hear him say that he will win this war within 120 days of his administration taking office. Let’s hear him put out a time table for winning the war, instead of the cowardly timetable for withdrawal – something that is not supported by our valiant men and women in uniform, fighting the good fight out there in the desert.

Reaganite - Glenn J. D'Abreo
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If you listened to Obama’s answers to Rick Warrens questions, then you've learned to recognize BS when it comes at you. In answer to the question about rights of the unborn and when they should have rights....Obama gave a short 45 second doctoral thesis. "It's above my pay grade..." Yet at that pay grade he wants us to give him the authority to nominate judges to the Supreme Court Bench who could keep Roe VS. Wade in place for another twenty years and kill another 30 million Americans. To me this is a holocaust. It is also genocide because minorities, especially black women, get the most abortions. Yet liberal progressives never mention that side ofthis horror.

I wonder how liberals square the loss of 30 million working Americans and the consequent loss of revenue. If 30 million working Americans earned an average of $30, 000 a year they would pay about $700 in taxes, each. Do the math. That is a total of $21 billion a year. According to liberal progressives these babies might not be living human beings, while in the womb, but heck, in eighteen years they’ll be worth $21 billion a year. Common...surely just that justifies saving their lives. Think of how many earmarks that would provide?

Reaganite - Glenn J. D'Abreo

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One of the questions asked of the two Presidential Candidates, by Rick Warren, at Saddleback Church this weekend was whether they thought evil was real and that it really existed. Both candidates acknowledged the presence of evil. Both said that evil had to be defeated wherever it was encountered. My personal favorite was hearing John McCain point to Fascist Extremist Islam as the largest purveyor of evil in the world today. He cited Al Quaeda using tow mentally retarded women as suicide bombers, as the quintessence of evil. He also cited 9/11 as being the pinnacle of evil. He said that he would follow Bin Laden to the gates of hell to get him and bring him to justice.

In my opinion, both candidates, however, missed an opportunity to make two important points about evil.

First, that it propagates because good people do nothing to crush it, when they encounter it. It is either too inconvenient or too much trouble or simply not something they want to get involved in. Since Roe-Vs-Wade, thirty million babies have been murdered. In the name of choice for women, we have sat idly by while three generations have fallen victim to what can only be called genocide-the deliberate destruction of the life of one group of human being. Remember the hit-and-run accident victim who was left injured and possibly dying, in New York without anyone stopping to help him? The sheer evil of pedophiles who stalk children with the intent of hurting them and then killing them to cover up the crime. The judges, with liberal progressive attitudes, who consider pedophilia a disease, and who believe that these monsters who prey on the most innocent in our society shouldn't be wiped off the face of the earth by incarcerating them for life. Much like the parable of the Good Samaritan, wherein several people chose to walk by without getting involved in helping the injured traveler, evil will propagate as long as we walk by, completely comfortable with our apathy.

Second, and almost more important than the first point, is the fact that while there is a great deal of evil in our world, there still more good than evil. This is the greatest and most perfect proof of the existence of God (the perfect good), available to us. This is especially true in our country. Examples of this are demonstrated by the response triggered by the casual mention made by newscasters of victims of an apartment house fire being in need. With in minutes Americans flood the station with blankets, food, clothing, water, money and whatever else they can provide. The wild fires in San Diego brought out so much help that people had to be asked to stop because relief workers were being overwhelmed. Faith based assistance in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina was immediate, long-lasting and deeply involved in the human tragedy.

In Iraq, we see soldiers carrying infants, little children and old people to safety. Two aircraft carriers with food, water and supplies stood off-shore in Burma following the disaster there, while the military rulers hesitated to let them in to help. John McCain, at Saddleback, told a story of sharing a moment with a North Vietnamese guard, who had previously showed him a kindness by loosening up the rope binding his arms. It was Christmas day and the guard, as inconspicuously as possible, came up and with his shoe drew a cross in the dirt on the ground. He and McCain just looked at it, praying. The guard then erased the cross and left. It was two Christians, worshiping together, in the middle of evil. The presence of a Loving God exhibited through the human endeavor.

Good is all around us.

It definitely far out-weighs the evil.

This is especially true about America.

It is proof of the existence of God and the blessing of God for our Country.

We need to be thankful for this, always. Not just on one Thursday in November.

Barack Obama and John McCain went all out this weekend to assure evangelicals that they were the right candidate for the right kind of change. If one gentleman in the audience, Tom Christian is any measure for the kind of religious voter that McCain and Obama were going after, at Saddleback Church on Saturday, then the results might be a pretty sure thing for John McCain.

Mr. Christian is Conservative. A Republican, but he has had difficulty deciding if he would vote for McCain or Obama. This is typical of a lot of undecided voters across the country. "Obama always makes a better impression," Christian said. "But McCain was clear, on issues like life. He said life begins at conception. That's my position. He believes what I believe. ... I like Obama. But I'll be voting for McCain."

This last statement probably clarifies my reason for getting to be a slightly stronger McCain follower this Monday morning. John McCain said several things which lit my fire. He said them unhesitatingly, strongly, without any spin and right from the hip. Frequently, before the question was complete asked. This was political sharp shooting, par excellence.

Life begins at conception. The unborn have rights.

Evil exists and has to be defeated.

Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior. We are all in need of his saving grace.

General Petraeus is one of America's greatest generals, who has lead us to victory in Iraq.

Meg Whitman is an American Dream story come true.

Our troops will come back but victorious against all odds.

The rich do not deserve to be punished with higher tax rates just because they are rich.

Being rich is having a family and a good job. Being able to support your family and provide education and health care for them.

Adoption is a noble thing and should be made easier in our country.

Two things congress will never pass up - a pay raise and a vacation!

America's greatest times are ahead of her.

Finally, when asked about evil, John said that evil exists and must be defeated. The difference is that Obama went first to the presence of evil in out country and our neighborhoods, without mentioning Al Queda, Osama Bin Laden or terrorists. McCain, on the other had, said, "Even if I have to follow him to the gates of hell, I will get Osama Bin Laden and bring him to justice." One got the feeling that John McCain had the line from Psalm 23 in mind...."Though I walk through the valley of the shadow do death, I will fear no evil for Thou are art with me!"

He may have been pandering to my sensibilities. I think not. I hope not.

If he wasn't simply pandering to Conservative Christians, then it's a sure thing. I think I re-chose John McCain for the right reasons. Here was the man who I have previously called a RINO, a liberal in conservative clothing and some one who wasn't really my kind of Republican, a deserter from the Reaganite Ranks, someone who was courting the centrist ideology to net as many votes as he could. On Staurday, at Saddleback, I saw genuine emotions, genuine faith and I think genuine ideals.

I loved hearing the America's best times were ahead! Reaganesque to the core!!!!

I take back all my negatives. A man can change his mind. That is what improvement and evolution is all about. If it comes from the heart, and it's genuine, it is a good thing. I trust that John McCain is an honest, God Fearing American. He's getting my vote without reservations.

The Democrats are going to place Hillary’s name in nomination at their convention. This is a token gesture merely to affirm her well-fought fight during the primary season and her gournd-breaking campaign, which has broken political ceiling for women all over America.  

If this were the Olympics, it would be like getting all the nations, who have no chance of winning anything, their moment in the spotlight during the opening ceremonies. Remember being bored out of your mind watching the contingents from Outer Westopia and Eastern Jellostnan walk in. These poor guys would never be seen again. Many of them flew home right after the opening ceremony. None of them will be remembered. That is the fate of those who were, coincidently, also there. The “also rans”, so to speak. Let’s see you find Outer Westopia or Eastern Jellostan on the map. Do you even care to? Now do you see what I mean.

One’s immediate response is, “Poor Hillary, such a shame.”  But, I urge you not to give in to feelings of pity for this Twenty-first century Jeanne D’Arc. Like Macarthur, she will return. And when she does, it will be with the lessons of 2008 well learned and corrected, and God help anyone who stands in the way. Bill is already telling the odd reporter how he would have changed his advice to his wife earlier on. This lady, and her Lecherous Lancelot, will openly challenge the occupant of the White House in 2012, whether it be a Democrat or a Republican. The job will be easy and enjoyable for the party if it is a Republican. Democrat will want the Republican out. But if it should be their Crown Prince, Mr. Dimples Obama, then the pain will be deep and damaging. Hillary will extend her claws and come out fighting. But make no mistake, this is going to happen.

I want to go on the record here, in the late Summer of 2008, that I predicted this.

Reaganite - Glenn D'Abreo

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I don’t much care for France. As a nation. As a people.  I don’t care for the leadership, their attitude towards America and their delusionist idea that they are still the cultural superpower of the globe. It is completely unjustified elitism.  No one has told them that Versailles is now museum and not a huge Royal Palace where prodigies like Mozart, Dittersdorf and Stamitz parade around waiting for one of the Louis, of history gone by, to make a request.

My negative feelings for them were exacerbated by the French swimming team, who reverting to form, said that they would crush the Americans in the Swimming relay event in Beijing, yesterday. There was a point in the relay when it looked like France would win. Then our US team pulled everything out of the bag and let ‘em have it. It was exciting, heartwarming, delicious, delirious…it was d’lovely! The French lost by some .08 of a second. Wonderful. There is a God.

During the awarding of the Gold medals, with the President of the United States looking on, the Star Spangled Banner never sounded sweeter, the Star and Stripes never looked prettier and every American became instantly convinced that we can do anything we choose to do, as a nation, if we, indeed, pull everything out of the bag.

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Mr. Obama has said that Republicans will say they he is dangerous because he is different and because he doesn't resemble any of the Presidents on the various dollar bills. Well, the last time I checked, he's right. The Presidents on the dollar bills all wore wigs. Obama doesn't, that's a difference. Those poor old men had fake teeth. Elephant or Rhino ivory. Obama, grew up in modern America and because of the greatest health care system on the planet, he has good teeth, probably paid for by "typical" white grandparents. So that's another difference. Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Franklin and Hamilton were all born Englishmen. Another difference. Many differences. So, for the first time ever, I find myself agreeing with Barack Obama. But now, let's look at ideological differences between Obama and Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Hamilton, Franklin, Jackson and Grant.Washington and Grant were both generals involved in wars which were not popular and were criticized. Yet both wars preserved this country as we know it now. The war of independence separated the colonies from England and created the American Republic that was an experiment which had never been tried previously. The civil war kept the union from dissolving into so many autonomous, separate states, with no federal government to hold them together. Mr. Obama, not only has never served in the armed services, he's not too crazy about them either. He openly snubbed the soldiers in hospital in Germany, to go to the gym.

Thomas Jefferson did not like the idea of the Federal Government taking care of all our business. I suppose this least resembles Mr. Obama. Given the choice, Mr. Obama would have big brother taking care of everything from the way we do our laundry to the way we educate our children. Alexander Hamilton, another guy on a bill, resembles Mr. Obama, because he too wanted the Feds to manage everything. A nice strong Federal government,who would provide cradle to the grave care for all Americans.

Now Lincoln is the one who least resembles Mr. Obama. It was Mr. Lincoln's belief that you cannot help the poor by bringing down the rich. He also said: "That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise." One wonders, then, what Mr. Lincoln would say to taxing one industry extra heavily than all others because of windfall profits. What would Mr. Lincoln about taxing, extra heavily, the top 2% of all Americans, just because they have accumulated more wealth.

So make no mistake. Mr. Obama is right, he doesn't in anyway resemble most of the Presidents on the various dollar bills. And, for myself, I am unreservedly grateful.

A couple of months ago former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich started a grass-roots effort to get America and the Congress thinking about tapping sources of energy available to us right here in our country. It would go a long way to getting us ndependant of Arab oil. It went under the title: Drill Here, Drill Now – Bring Down Prices. It encouraged drilling in ANWAR, off shore in California and Florida, excavating shale in Colorado and converting coal into diesel. It had the effect of getting the President to remove the Executive ban on drilling off-shore, and got our sluggish, indolent congress to discuss the subject. At Least. They did nothing before going home for the summer, however.

The liberals naturally searched for and found all kinds of objections to drilling in America. One was the totally false argument that drilling now would not bring down gas prices now, because it would take ten years for that oil to be available. This, according to many experts, is totally false. It would take three years, at the very worst, to refine that home-drilled oil. Furthermore, it was the same liberals who encouraged Bill Clinton to ban drilling in ANWAR, TEN YEARS AGO, who claim that it would take ten years to refine local oil now. It’s funny how ten years have flown. How comfortable would we be, today, if we had started drilling in ANWAR ten years ago? These same myopic liberals will not admit that the mere possibility of increased supply has the effect of bringing down prices. Some brainless democrats actually brought up States Rights by voicing the argument that Cakifornia and Flroida should have the right to decide whether or not they wanted to drill of their shores. The original Federalists, John Adams and Alexander Hamilton would be proud.