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RUSH: Let\u2019s not forget John Dingell, March 23rd, 2010, in Detroit.<\/line> <\/line>DINGELL: Paul W. (Smith), we\u2019re not ready to be doing it, but let me remind you, this has been going on for years. We are bringing it to a halt. The harsh fact of the matter is when you\u2019re going to pass legislation that will cover 300 American people in different ways it takes a long time to do the necessary administrative steps that have to be taken to put the legislation together to control the people.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: To control the people. And a great illustration of controlling the people is this phony promise of offshore oil drilling. It is a feint, it is a head fake. Here\u2019s all you need to know: ‘The Los Angeles Times, citing administration officials, summed up the four biggest elements of the plan: Eventually open two-thirds of the eastern Gulf\u2019s oil and gas resources for drilling. Proceed with drilling off Virginia, provided the project clears environmental and military reviews.\u2019 Each one of these things has an out. ‘Study the viability of drilling off the mid- and southern Atlantic coasts. Study the viability of drilling in Alaska\u2019s Beaufort and Chukchi seas — areas hotly defended by environmentalists.\u2019 We know where there is oil and none of that area is being drilled, none of it. ANWR, lots of oil. Not being drilled there. <\/p>\n

This is a head fake. This is designed to show Obama as a moderate guy, position him as a moderate in favor of developing America\u2019s natural resources. It\u2019s an attempt to draw RINOs into a cap and tax agreement and it\u2019s no accident that Obama is going to Maine today to sell the health care bill. Why sell the health care bill? Why after the fact? What\u2019s the big deal? Well, very simple. Two names: Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins. You go up there and you attempt to get them to fall in line on his other stuff. I think Obama\u2019s probably going into their backyard to show them how he can hurt them. He wants to pick \u2019em off for other stuff to show he is bipartisan. Remember, folks, independents — a little politics here — independents are leaving Obama in droves. The congressional generic ballot again, the survey is out, and Republicans are over the top big in this, and it\u2019s only happened three times in history that the Republicans have won the generic ballot. It\u2019s huge, the portend for the November elections. <\/p>\n

So this offshore drilling, this is designed to mollify swing voters by misleading them again. I think it\u2019s a test of political instinct, a test for the hopelessly gullible. Anybody upon hearing this saying, ‘Hey, maybe we misjudged the president, gotta give him credit out there what he does something right.\u2019 Now, if that\u2019s you, you have flunked. The people fooled by this sophistry will be duped again when we get closer to November. Look, Obama is a radical leftist. He still wants cap and trade. They\u2019re going to accelerate the new CAFE standards from 2020 to 2016 which means that corporate fleets must average 35 miles a gallon. All this talk about reducing dependence on foreign oil, if you really wanted to do it there\u2019s all kinds of oil in places we know it to exist, including North Dakota. Is that where the big shale oil deposit is? This is just temporary. It\u2019s like the nuclear plants. He\u2019s not going to do it, and he\u2019s not going to drill. He\u2019s not going to have any new nuclear plants. All of this is designed to counter the allegations by people like me and other critics that Obama is a radical leftist, period. <\/p>\n

He has been in office over a year. He has not done a thing, not one thing to make this country more prosperous. Why would anybody think that he\u2019s interested in doing that now? Everything is designed to grow government. Everything is designed to weaken the private sector and fool the gullible, the brilliant and ever reasonable independents and moderates among us. And that\u2019s the thing that you have to remember. Now, here\u2019s a quote, statement from the Competitive Enterprise Institute. They put a press release out on this. ‘Most of Alaska, all of the Pacific coast, and other areas that could yield affordable energy for American consumers are still closed off from any development. Rather than a painful compromise, this is therefore actually a step back from what the American people thought had been achieved in 2008. ‘When gas reached four dollars a gallon, the American people were shocked to discover that most of our domestic oil reserves were locked up by the federal government. They demanded change,\u2019 said Competitive Enterprise Institute Director of Energy Policy Myron Ebell. In 2008, President George W. Bush revoked his father\u2019s executive order barring new offshore energy development and the Department of the Interior prepared a five year offshore leasing plan. The Democratic Congress co-operated by dropping the long-time moratorium which banned offshore oil production everywhere except in the western Gulf of Mexico and the Arctic Ocean off Alaska.\u2019<\/line> <\/line>Now, remember when they caved on this, I\u2019ll never forget it, four-dollar-a-gallon gasoline, and they caved on this, and right after they caved on it there were a lot of Democrats running around saying, ‘We really didn\u2019t mean to do this. We didn\u2019t want to do this and we\u2019re going to put this back. We\u2019re going to bring this moratorium back as soon as we can.\u2019 ‘The Obama administration, however, suspended the Interior plan and delayed a planned lease auction scheduled for 2011. It is now proposing a new plan that is much more limited.\u2019 So they have put the moratorium back on and they\u2019ve opened it up in these other areas again with the words ‘study, eventually, hopefully, and maybe.\u2019 This is Myron Ebell, the Director of Energy Policy at Competitive Enterprise Institute: ‘Anyone who sees this as a step in the right direction should remember that President Obama still supports energy-rationing policies to address global warming –‘ Oh, by the way, Arctic sea ice traditionally starts melting about this time of year, naturally. It is still freezing. Arctic sea ice is expanding and it is not melting. <\/line><\/p>\n

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RUSH: Back to Myron Ebell\u2019s statement here: ‘Anyone who sees this as a step in the right direction should remember that President Obama still supports energy-rationing policies to address global warming that would cause electricity prices to, in his own words, ‘necessarily skyrocket\u2019 and would require gas prices of at least seven dollars a gallon according to a recent Harvard study.\u2019 I remember reporting that seven dollars a gallon Harvard study. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Let\u2019s go to Casper, Wyoming. Samuel, welcome to the EIB Network. Great to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush. How you doing, brother?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Very well. Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Fantastic. Well, like you said, I\u2019m in Wyoming, so we\u2019re not afraid we\u2019re going to tip over and capsize at any point. I called about the offshore drilling —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — that Obama was talking about. It\u2019s a bit of a misnomer. Two weeks ago they canceled 38,000 federal drilling leases in eastern Montana.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Those are probably on the Bakken Formation. Are you familiar with the Bakken Formation?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, very well aware of that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay, 1.7 trillion in oil, 155% of what\u2019s in Yemen. If we can get 10% of it. That\u2019s just 10%. They spend a lot of time talking about offshore drilling and none of their time talking about drilling inland.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s exactly right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: We have enough oil in the Bakken Formation if we can recover just 10% of it for export.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, exactly. We\u2019ve got oil at Prudhoe Bay. We\u2019ve got oil at ANWR. All of the places where we know oil exists he\u2019s not drilling. The most recent data for the areas that Obama has opened up — by the way, folks, none of this is going to happen if Congress doesn\u2019t vote for it. He could issue an executive order but he won\u2019t on this, Congress has to approve this, they have to vote for it. Do you think the environmentalist lobby is going to let him get away with this? He knows full well they won\u2019t, same thing with all the time it will take of going through the process of getting a nuclear power plant through permits and certification. The most recent data we have on some of these areas that he\u2019s opened up for possible drilling is 30 years old. We\u2019re not even sure what we\u2019re going for in these areas. The whole thing is a giant scam.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Do you remember this story? This is from August 5th of 2009. We reported it on this program. ‘US ready to finance oil drilling in Brazil.\u2019 Up to $10 billion in loans to finance the development of massive hydrocarbon reserves off Brazil\u2019s coast, and this also was in league with George Soros. This was not to study. They were not exploring. They were not testing. This was to drill. So we\u2019re happy to help other nations do this, and he just performs tricks on the American people where ‘drill, baby, drill\u2019 is concerned.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Pittsburgh, Jeff, you\u2019re next on the EIB Network. Hello, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Welcome back.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: This oil exploration that Obama\u2019s doing, I think we can all deem that as BS. But the nuclear part of it, strangely enough in the Sports Illustrated from 1979, there\u2019s a full-page ad having all industrialized countries going nuclear and only America has been slow to decide its energy future. I don\u2019t think we went too much further then. I think we\u2019re getting ourselves behind the eight ball, so to speak.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, we\u2019ve been behind the eight ball for a long time. One movie shut down the nuclear industry in this company, The China Syndrome.<\/p>\n

CALLER: China Syndrome, yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, shut it down, Michael Douglas, was he in that? Jane Fonda, that\u2019s all you need to know. That one movie shut us down. When you say we\u2019re behind the eight bail, we\u2019ve been behind the eight ball on energy I don\u2019t know for how long. I mean all of this moratorium on offshore drilling, moratorium on providing our own energy, and oil being portrayed as the worst scum of the earth that\u2019s destroying the planet, when oil, the internal combustion engine, all of the technology resulting has lead to the most productive, enhanced lifestyle humanity has ever known around the world, not just here. And yet oil is being demonized. I mean these windmills, they freeze up, they don\u2019t run when there\u2019s not enough wind and you can\u2019t make wind, and they\u2019re not efficient anyway. The left has just gotten hold of all of this, and their desire is to cut this country down to size. They don\u2019t like our superpower status. They don\u2019t like it because they think it\u2019s not fair that we should have so much and the rest of the world should have so little. They think we\u2019ve stolen it from the rest of the world. They don\u2019t understand capitalism, they hate it. They don\u2019t understand the concept of productivity. All they understand is the redistribution of wealth. But they resent the creation of it. And you can\u2019t redistribute what you don\u2019t have. And we don\u2019t have what we are redistributing now. We are printing it, we are borrowing it, and we\u2019re running up a debt that at some point\u2019s going to come due. The situation is dire. We are a great nation at risk in a dangerous world. The fact of the matter is that the biggest threat we now face is internal, our own radical left. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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