So the dems managed to pass a bill allowing offshore drilling/exploration, but only 50+ miles out from the coast. We've not done a WHOLE lot of exploration out there, but since cali sits on a subduction boundary there's probably not any oil out there.
IMO it's a play to get the repubs to raise a stink about a bill that APPEARS to be what they wanted all along and thereby making them look like THEY are the do nothings in congress.
It's sneaky and underhanded, and Pelosi's a douchebag.
/I have plenty of opinions on offshore drilling, but as far as this latest shit is concerned those opinions don't need to be considered.
Why has politics become an us vs. them mentality (dems vs. repubs). Why can't it be about the constituents? This is what I hate about politicians, and probably why the first congress wasn't paid.