PARTIALLY BREAKING: "LIBERAL" JOE KLIEN SUPPORTS ANWR DRILLING

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A wonderful thing happened in Washington last week. Both political parties tried to bribe the American people past their anger over high gasoline prices, and the public response was a collective guffaw. The Republicans' $100- rebate bribe -- yet another indication that Senate majority leader Bill Frist has become the central clearinghouse for cheesy political ideas -- received most of the ridicule. But the Democrats were equally craven, proposing a two-month "holiday" from the 18(cent)-per-gal. federal gasoline tax. This is not to suggest that we have suddenly become a nation of policy connoisseurs with a well-honed sense of energy wonkery. But Americans do have a well-honed sense of baloney when they hear it. Which suggests that there might be an opportunity for political honesty, and for leadership, on this issue. "You're not going to get anywhere without doing something hard," Peter Orszag, a Brookings Institution domestic-policy analyst, told me. "You're not going to solve this with incentives -- by giving tax breaks for research on alternative fuels, or to people who buy hybrid cars, or by encouraging more drilling, which are the only things the politicians are willing to talk about right now. You have to discourage the use of energy by raising the price."

You're thinking, Uh-oh, here comes another high-minded argument for pain. Yes and no. Tax incentives for hybrid cars certainly won't hurt. And while I'm a big fan of caribou, drilling for oil on a patch of their Alaskan stomping ground doesn't seem an eco-disaster. There's also a new generation of safer nuclear-power technology that could replace oil- and coal-fueled electric power plants. But some sort of price jolt will also be necessary to wean the public away from fossil fuels, and it's going to have to be a big one.
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http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1191805,00.html

:wow:

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Right up there with Chris Matthews and Tim Russert.

Wow... no kidding? Snort..... sorry, but he's not a liberal.

News Flash for Time.com.............LOTS of people can't afford to buy a new car. We have to keep the ones we have. And some of us have to have trucks to keep doing business so we will just keep getting our ass kicked with high prices.

I despise this man, and every fraudulent, smug thing he stands for. He is a fraud and a charlatan. He has no honor. He has no conscience. He believes in Joe Klein, and the very nice lifestyle and persona he has cultivated. Hey, Joe. You are crap, and if you had any self-insight, at all, you would catch a glimmer. Hey, Joe. Where you going with that gun in your hand. You're going down to shoot that lady, and any guy who dares to criticize the great Joe Klein. You will make a great camp kommandant in the New World Order. Contempt is not strong enough to describe my loathing of Joe Klein.

...been dipped in anthrax.

You know what you can do with it, 'k?