Learning...yeah right... You don't go from rabid Drill Baby Drill to no offshore drilling overnight, not even with a disaster of this proportion.
Eric -----Original Message----- From: G Money [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2010 9:48 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Hypocrisy or justified complaint? On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Maureen <[email protected]> wrote: > > It's very easy to score political points by demanding that the > government "do something". It's much harder to define what it is you > want the government to do. A lot of the demands now are for control > and regulation - some are demanding that BP be fined for every day the > oil flows. But if the President had suggested any of these items > before the spill, the course of opposition would have been loud and > long. Compare the positions on off-shore drilling when the > announcement that it would be allowed was made a few months ago with > the position of those same people now, and tell me why they aren't > hypocrites. > I dunno.......it's all speculation but, i guess it could be hypocritical to have one position then, and a different position now. But, couldn't it also be a case of....learning? Maybe someone two month ago thought that the regulations were unnecessarily expensive and intrusive...but now, after they see this, they've changed their mind? I know, that's a bit naive of me perhaps....but it is possible. -- The suburbs have no charms to soothe The restless dream of youth ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:319632 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
