Reply #9: No. Not right. [View All]

[Carolab]

"ANWAR is the same thing: people might not like tearing up the environment for low profit-margin economic activity, but if we're headed towards economic crisis, maybe we should be doing shit like that?

The way for Democrats to deal with Iraq and ANWAR is to make sure that Democrats aren't letting Republicans define and rank Democratic priorities."

This is NOT how this "casts Democrats" nor is that the reason the Republicans wanted to score ANWR. They wanted to score it so they can do anything, anywhere and anytime to resources without ANY opposition.

They are not framing Dems as people who would put the environment FIRST over the economy. They are casting themselves as LIARS and OPPORTUNISTS because the Dems and the Republicans who voted WITH THEM did a good job of pointing out that the amount of oil that could be extracted from ANWR and the time frame that it would require meant it was a BAD IDEA. They instead offered a sensible alternative and Bush's rejection of it exposed the Republican administration for the stupid idealogues they are, not as sensible capitalists who are thinking about some "small sacrifices to the environment in order to create wealth".

You are wrong about this.