Rep. Eric Cantor of Virginia, who is leading the Republicans in the House of Representatives fighting to get the Democratic ban on domestic drilling lifted, charged that the Democrats were "beholden to environmental extremists."
Investor's Business Daily has detailed how true that charge is.
Let's face it. The average individual American has little or no clout with Congress and can be safely ignored. But it's a different story with groups such as the Environmental Defense Fund, Sierra Club and Nature Conservancy.When they speak, Congress listens. Unlike the average American, they are well organized, loaded with cash and well positioned to be a disobedient congressman's worse nightmare. Their political and economic success has been a near disaster for our nation.
For several decades, environmentalists have managed to get Congress to keep most of our oil resources off-limits to exploration and drilling.
They've managed to have the Congress enact onerous regulations that have made refinery construction impossible.
Similarly, they've used the courts and Congress to completely stymie the construction of nuclear power plants. As a result, energy prices are at historical highs and threaten our economy and national security.
The massive damage these organizations have done is only a prelude to what they're planning as they use the global warming scare to ram dangerous new laws through Congress to allow this or prohibit that.
The possibilities for control over our lives would be endless and could include nuisance-type edicts such a requiring us to buy a permit to barbecue in our backyard.The thirst to wield massive control over our economy helps explain the near religious belief in man-made global warming and the attacks on scientists and others who offer contradictory evidence.
Defeating Pelois-Obama-Reid and their environmental extremists on drilling is a necessary first step to turning back those who would control our lives to "save the planet (Pelosi's very words)."
UPDATE: Charles Krauthammer takes on Democrat Speaker Pelosi's desire to "save the planet."
