In 2004, Senator John Kerry insisted we can't just drill our way out of oil issues; between then and 2008, assorted Democrats have claimed that mantra; now candidates like T. Boone Pickens are saying we can't drill our way out...and Pickens says HE should know, what with being a longtime oil tycoon and all.
 
If Nancy Pelosi and Pickens stood for four years insisting I had two heads on my neck, and enlisted marketers and activists to help parrot such mantra, that still would not put an extra head on my neck...evidence and dynamics do play a part in credibility, which never stands on say-so opinion.
 
The fact is, if Democrats or Al Franken or Pickens et al actually felt there was a true shortage that could bring human life to a standstill imminently in a short while, they wouldn't talk about needing wind and solar and biodiesel and ethanol in the far, far remotest eventuality.
 
The point is, opposition to Bush and ANWR et al seems mostly in the nature of "puke on Bush and the GOP, vote for me and none but me 'cause as long as there's ONE GOP left, pooey, what can we poor Libs and Mods do? Can't they see Mymood Alibabjihad has only GOOD in mind for us?Oh, boo-hoo-hoo, vote for MEEEEEE!!!!!!".
 
The one thing Pickens and Democrats CAN do is not even try to extract whatever oil we've got, which is odd given they don't even think we'll ever have a military or defense use again, and that they want the USA out of all the Mid East including its oil by any means obtained.
 
Worse, they say we should turn over all our contracted and sovereign resources together to foreign nations, so they can sell it back to us (through Pickens' production systems?) at exorbitant rates...q.v., LOST and U.N. "globally nationalized" resources deals which have left Norwegians paying over twice what we do for oil in their own backyard.
 
For these reasons, I respectfully submit that Congress should not adjourn until it lifts its own ban against domestic drilling.