Nancy Pelosi to Offer Bill that Would Allow Offshore Drilling

According to this article it appears as though Nancy Pelosi is ready to offer a bill that will expand offshore oil drilling when the house returns from recess. All the politicians seem to be scrambling to support filing legislation after years of opposing it. John McCain was the first to flip-flop on this issue, followed by President Obama, and now Nancy Pelosi.

Either Nancy Pelosi is feeling pressure from her constituents since she returned home or she is upset by the good press that Republicans have gotten by refusing to stop debating the issue even after Pelosi turned the lights out on them and adjourned the session. Or both.

The timing to me is very suspect, just before the elections Pelosi is going to bring forward a bill that would expand offshore drilling? It leads me to believe that the American people are demanding that congress do something. That includes drilling, a position that the Democrats have opposed for years because of environmental concerns. Funny how environmental concerns are trumped by the desire to stay in office, isn’t it? Suddenly when faced with angry constituents the environment doesn’t seem so important to this group of politicians who are in the back pocket of the environmental groups.

Americans rose up when President Bush, John McCain, and Ted Kennedy tried to grant illegal aliens amnesty and they stopped that bill. Now Americans appear to be doing the same when it comes to oil drilling. It seems the threat of losing power has various former anti-drillers suddenly willing to drill.

It is great to watch what Americans can do when an issue unites the people, or a majority of the people, and demand that the politicians take action. This is just such an issue.