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Sen. Bill Nelson, a Democrat, also introduced a bill to stop the Obama administration from moving forward with a plan to expand offshore oil drilling to the area of the Outer Continental Shelf.

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0 # Guest 2010-04-30 10:22

What, the turn coat senator turning on one of his corporation contributors?

Greed speaks in many ways, if only to benefit oneself.

0 # Guest 2010-04-30 10:28

It's hard to know who's one's enemies are from one day to the next. On one hand, Dem Senator Ben Nelson has been an obstructionist in terms of passing Congressional legislation backed by Obama & his own party, though I don't support much of Obama's major legislation myself, not because it's too strong & too robust, but because it's too weak & watered down, while on the other hand, once in awhile, Senator Nelson does the right thing, like backing a stop to offshore oil drilling, even if only temporarily, to determine what caused the disaster. Meanwhile, Dem Senator Mary Landrieu is supporting Obama's seemingly unswerving desire to expand offshore oil drilling as if this disaster hadn't even happened. What we need to do is the fire the whole lot of them, both Republicans and Democrats, and to establish a third and perhaps fourth political party who relects the interests of the common man. I think that the Green Party would be a good start.

+3 # Guest 2010-04-30 12:18

Harold, you are confusing Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska with Senator Bill Nelson of Florida.

+1 # Guest 2010-04-30 14:38

Sorry about that. That's easy to do when the names are that close. I still feel that we need at least one, if not two additional political parties to compete against both the Republicans and the Democrats.

+1 # Guest 2010-04-30 11:19

Amen, Harold, the nation needs new political parties that reflect the overall public, not just the one percent that's squeezing the life out of the economy and the workplace. A great majority of us are fed up. Obama ditched the entire coastal and environmental support base with his pro-GOP pro-big oil offshore drilling stance. Which would not even put a dent in U.S. oil needs. And now the polluting nightmare in the Gulf. Makes me think a Chicago Deal was struck--serve one term then make a ton on speeches. Once loyal Democrats, we now seek a true statesperson and movement that cares about all. And will stand up to special interests and champion the best interest of the nation's and world's future.

0 # Guest 2010-04-30 18:31

I voted for Obama as the lesser of 2 evils because I thought that things would be infinitely worse under John McCain, and yet I wonder if things would have been that much worse. Obama is lying to the American people about removing all troops from Iraq by the end of 2011. He forced the govt of Iraq to cancel the referendum vote that the Iraqi people were supposed to have in July of last year, which was a major requirement of passing SOFA by the Iraqi parliament. If the Iraqi people had voted SOFA down, Obama & the U.S. would have had no other legal option but to literally remove all foreign forces, most especially all U.S. troops, from Iraq by the end of this year. Obama plans on retaining a strong U.S. occupation force, a permanent occupation force, of at least 50,000 people indefinitely under the phony guise of training the Iraqi army & police forces. This occupying force will remain there to protect our oil that we stole from the Iraqis.

+2 # Guest 2010-04-30 12:26

I think that both the posts above are confusing two different people. Ben Nelson is a jerk from Nebraska. Bill Nelson is from Florida. They are two VERY different people.

+3 # Guest 2010-04-30 12:47

On this issue Nelson is exactly right.

We should also put a moratorium on new coal plants, oil shale development and put our money and energy on small local sources so as not to fall victim to huge sabotage from a nationwide grid. Right now Montana is asked to allow behemoth trucks carrying parts for mining Canadian oil shale which in turn will be processed and put into pipes so Montana gets screwed both ways. The mining equipment was made in Korea.

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