What's been rolling around the Senate for years has finally come to a head. The Senate voted on a budget with the ANWR oil drilling attached to it. So it might finally happen, even if Democrats are spewing vitrol over it.
I was having a beer with a good friend of mine. Simple guy who does landscaping in Seattle. He said, without any prompting from me, how disgusted he was with congress (especially his own Senator, Maria Cantwell (D)) and how much they nitpick the issue. It's pretty plain to him (and me and probably most people) that there is very little harm they can do to the area in Alaska they are working in. Ms Cantwell complains about how the area will be harmed, but has never been there herself. That pretty much describes most of the people who are opposed to this.
When pretty much everyone on Alaska is for drilling, including the native Alaskan tribe that runs the territory, I see no reason why we should be screaming about it down here in the 48.
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