With the announcement that his administration will open up the Atlantic coast for drilling, Obama made one of the classiest political "head-fakes" in recent memory. No legitimate oil company is going to drill off the eastern sea-coast of America anytime soon, if at all. Drilling off the eastern coast of America is prohibitively expensive and as long as there is no monetary reward for shaking the foreign (read cheap) oil habit, big oil never being particularly patriotic in nature (if at all), will leave the eastern seaboard alone for many, many years to come. And without a big oil spill to complain about, all but the greenest of the green environmentalists will move onto well, green pastures. So what is the point (as in talking) of all this? I would suggest it is in fact the democrats gearing up for 2010 and beyond. Let me put it this way. The republican war cry of "Drill baby drill"? One more talking point gone. Repealing health care was DOA and the party of morality and family values? Sanford and Ensign, nailed that one. Barakistan is going well, so no Dems soft on terror to campaign on. And so piece by piece, sound-bite by sound-bite, the Republican Party begins to recede in the distance just in time for the midterm elections. And he only had to give up one coast...smart cookie that Obama. However, by destroying the Republican Party he's going to leave a political void that will only help empower the Tea Party and one of these days they are going to figure out how to shed the dead weight at the top and use the internet to deliver their grassroots message (sound familiar?) And when it's Tea Party 2.0, watch out America, it's a whole new ballgame.
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