San Francisco Chronicle:

Pelosi, who has opposed offshore drilling throughout her two decades in Congress, insists opening new areas to drilling won’t lower gas prices in the short term. She believes a vote would only help the GOP blame Democrats for high gas prices. “I will not…give the administration an excuse for its failure,” Pelosi said at an end-of-session roundtable interview Thursday…

What-ever. The piece also noted, towards the bottom, that a “CNN/Opinion Research poll released this week found that 69 percent of Americans favor more offshore drilling, while 30 percent oppose it.” Apaarently that doesn’t matter much.

But it’s all okay, since the the Messiah is on the case:

Sen. Barack Obama…announced an “Emergency Economic Plan” that would give families a stimulus check of $1,000 each, funded in part by what his presidential campaign calls “windfall profits from Big Oil.”

So then it would be a good thing if oil went to $200, right? So that there would be more windfall profits to redistribute like manna from heaven.

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