Democrats Vow To Stop Oil Exploration, Spend More Of Our Tax Dollars
In recent weeks President Bush had changed some administrative rules to allow exploration in oil shale deposits and to cut back on entitlement spending. Democrats are vowing to end these changes once Bush is out of office.
Because that’s what they think America wants, apparently. Less domestic oil production and more government spending.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 (UPI)—Last-minute federal rules issued by the outgoing Bush administration, most of which benefit key constituencies, will be challenged by Democrats, lawmakers say.
Among the new rules are controversial environmental measures meant to make it easier for mining interests to extract oil shale in the West, cuts to states to pay for some Medicaid-covered procedures and accelerated judicial review for death sentences, The Washington Post reported Sunday.
Opposing domestic oil production is a loser for Democrats. Gas prices may have dropped for now, but they will go back up. If the public perceives Democrats as doing things that keep gas prices higher than they need to be they’re going to be resentful, and that will hurt them at the ballot box.
Spending on state Medicare is a bit different because a lot of people in this country seem ok with government providing health care, but the truth is that Democrat efforts to expand state Medicare programs is the leading edge to their plans to nationalize the entire health care industry. Buy constantly expanding those programs so that more people qualify for them, and then encouraging people who don’t need the programs to sign up for them, they make more and more people dependent on government health care. Which is exactly what they want. That Medicare is already an out-of-control-behemoth-of-spending-program growing at an unsustainable rate apparently matters little to them.
Democrats are free to undo what Bush has done here, but doing so would be bad for the country.
