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The New "Progressive" "Non-Triangulation" On Off Shore Drilling

By Big Tent Democrat

A wise president works with what he's got and doesn't add more burden than the beast can bear. That's different from triangulation. Triangulation is passing your opponent's agenda on your terms and then taking credit for it. Obama is passing his agenda on the terms the system will bear. - New Progressives

NYTimes:

Obama to Open Offshore Areas to Oil Drilling for First Time

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is proposing to open vast expanses of water along the Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the north coast of Alaska to oil and natural gas drilling, much of it for the first time, officials said Tuesday. The proposal — a compromise that will please oil companies and domestic drilling advocates but anger some residents of affected states and many environmental organizations — would end a longstanding moratorium on oil exploration along the East Coast from the northern tip of Delaware to the central coast of Florida, covering 167 million acres of ocean.

I personally do not have an opinion on the issue. But I am pretty sure the consensus "progressive" position opposed such a measure. What do they say now about this New "Progressive" "Non-Triangulation?"

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on March 31, 2010 (boomark / email).