Even though we wouldn’t see the very small benefits of offshore drilling for something like 10 years, apparently the GOP finds handing even more money to the oil companies as such an urgent matter that they’re threatening to shut down the government in September over it.
One of the things Democrats haven’t done well is explain to people just how useless offshore drilling is, but perhaps this threat will finally get them to start doing that.
OK, I’m not as up on state politics as I should be living in the state of Virginia, but I’m trying to figure out how Tim Kaine is both a DINO and responsible for hyper-partisanship simultaneously. How did Kaine both create a super-partisan environment while supposedly bending over to the GOP’s every wish?
Second, most of the things liberal Virginia bloggers seem to be complaining about Kaine are things which were known before he was even elected. And of course, they’re doing what every good liberal blogger does, which is distort many of their positions to fit their argument (abortion is the real big one that they do that with).
Now, as I stated in my VP rundown yesterday, I don’t think Kaine is the best choice for Vice President, largely because I’m not sure he really brings anything to the ticket of value, other than maybe a small bump in Virginia. However, I really have to question people who are upset that Kaine is governing as a conservative democrat after running as *gasp!* a conservative democrat.
