Don’t Drill, Baby, Don’t Drill
Sometimes you just have to laugh; President Obama really does have a way of twisting the GOP into uncomfortable ideological pretzel shapes: Boehner rebukes Obama offshore drilling plan.
President Barack Obama’s plan to allow expanded offshore oil and gas exploration won rebuke from the top House Republican on Wednesday.
House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) dismissed the president’s plan as not going far enough in opening up U.S. waters for exploration.
Obama’s decision “continues to defy the will of the American people,” Boehner said in a statement, pointing to the president’s decision to open Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico waters, while leaving Pacific and many Alaskan waters largely closed to exploration.