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HOTAIR > TALIBAN: WE ROCKETED OBAMA AT BAGRAM [air base]
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VARIOUS > FBI: EXTREMIST LETTERS TO GOVERNORS COULD INCITE VIOLENCE. "Guardians of the Free Republics" Letters to Pols demands they formally and immidately resign by indic dateline in Letter, or else will be removed.
A doctor who considers the national health-care overhaul to be bad medicine for the country posted a sign on his office door telling patients who voted for President Barack Obama to seek care "elsewhere."
"I'm not turning anybody away that would be unethical," Dr. Jack Cassell, 56, a Mount Dora urologist and a registered Republican opposed to the health plan, told the Orlando Sentinel on Thursday. "But if they read the sign and turn the other way, so be it."
The sign reads: "If you voted for Obama seek urologic care elsewhere. Changes to your healthcare begin right now, not in four years."
Estella Chatman, 67, of Eustis, whose daughter snapped a photo of the typewritten sign, sent the picture to U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson, the Orlando Democrat who riled Republicans last year when he characterized the GOP's idea of health care as, "If you get sick, America Die quickly."
The outspoken congressman Grayson described Cassell's sign as "ridiculous."
"I'm disgusted," he said. "Maybe he thinks the Hippocratic Oath says, Do no good.' If this is the face of the right wing in America, it's the face of cruelty. Why don't they change the name of the Republican Party to the Sore Loser Party?"
Betrayal -- it's all the rage this season! Seriously guys, you wanted him and now you've got him. From now on, be careful what you wish for, kthx.
Twenty-eight years after the outbreak of the Falklands conflict the man who secured US backing for Britain's recapture of the islands has called the Obama Administration's foreign policy team "a bunch of amateurs" for failing to support Britain over Argentina once again.
By asserting its neutrality in the latest dispute over oil in the Falklands basin the US has handed Argentina a diplomatic victory, according to Lawrence Eagleburger, who helped to persuade President Reagan to throw American intelligence and logistical support into the war on Britain's side. He said that Britain's role alongside the US in Afghanistan since 2001 had only made the situation worse. "Under the circumstances, with Afghanistan, I can't see why we'd be doing anything other than being very pro-British because you are putting troops there," Mr Eagleburger told The Times in an interview in which he also recalled that Margaret Thatcher won over the Reagan Cabinet partly because "people were afraid to argue with her".
To mark today's anniversary of the Falklands invasion President Kirchner of Argentina will walk to the edge of the Beagle Channel, on the southern tip of Patagonia, and sprinkle petals on the water in memory of the 649 Argentine soldiers and sailors who died in 74 days of fighting. The war claimed 255 British lives but it is in Argentina that the human cost of the war has remained a potent political weapon. Mrs Kirchner is expected to reassert Argentina's claim to sovereignty over the islands today at a ceremony in the world's southernmost city of Ushuaia, and to attack recent British efforts to develop oilfields in Falklands waters. In Buenos Aires a service will be held in the central Plaza de Mayo to highlight successive governments' neglect of war veterans since their defeat nearly three decades ago.
America played a vital role in that defeat, not least by opening a US base on Ascension Island to British Forces, but its support was by no means a foregone conclusion. "There was a strong feeling that British control of the Falklands was anachronistic," Mr Eagleburger, 79, said, referring to public backing for Argentina from the Republican right but also to a pro-Argentina lobby in the US State Department that he was forced to confront. Jeanne Kirkpatrick, then the US Ambassador to the United Nations, was an ardent anti-communist who saw General Galtieri's junta as a bulwark against Soviet influence in Latin America -- and therefore to be supported in spite of its horrific human rights record. "But her biggest problem on the Falklands issue was that she was Irish," Mr Eagleburger said. "That really hung over her. She was not actively antagonistic but she was not anxious to smooth the way for the British in this or any other crisis."
Mr Eagleburger, then the third-ranking official at the State Department, also had to face down Thomas Enders, the department's senior regional policymaker. Mr Enders was "very much an Anglophile" by inclination but as Assistant Secretary of State for Latin America he had "figured out where his bread was buttered. I was p***ed off with him for wasting everyone's time because I knew damn well where Al Haig [the Secretary of State] was going to end up on this." Mr Haig, like Mr Reagan himself, was an admirer of Mrs Thatcher and a natural believer in a special Anglo-American relationship, hesitating only because of what came to be known as the Kirkpatrick doctrine of Soviet containment.
In the end Mrs Thatcher prevailed by sheer force of personality. "The fact that she was Prime Minister made a great deal of difference in Washington if for no other reason than people were afraid to argue with her," Mr Eagleburger said. "The admiration for her was truly great. The disdain for Galtieri was pretty substantial, too, but she overwhelmed people in terms of her abilities and her willingness to express herself. Reagan had to come off the fence but from the very beginning he had an inherent sympathy for the British cause [and] he went to great lengths to help her."
Twenty-eight years later David Cameron faces a more equivocal US Administration as a potential Conservative prime minister. In an interview this week he said that Britain should "frankly and candidly say we're disappointed" with Washington's call for negotiations on the Falklands' future even though the islanders do not want them.
The Obama Administration's desire to stay neutral is not surprising, Mr Eagleburger said, but it should not have made neutrality the issue. "Both sides are now trying to force us to 'vote'," he said. "If Argentina knew we were pro-British it would be much easier for us to stay pro-British." Things were simpler in 1982, when he settled the argument with five words: "An ally is an ally."
So much for 'sophisticated European' opinion. Hated the "cowboy" didn't they. Well, you got what you wanted. Enjoy. In the last desperate years of WWI, the German General Staff orchestrated Lenin's return to Russia to fuel a revolution to buy peace on the Eastern Front. They got Lenin, and then socialism, Hitler and Stalin and the misery of WWII. In 2008, hundreds of thousands of untraceable small donations flooded in from Europe to the Obama campaign. As Ye Sow, So Shall Ye Reap.
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Mrs. Kirchner needs a good, stiff bitch slap. Anything less will encourage her to do something reckless and dangerous. If she does, the blood will be on Obama's hands.
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Agreed. The headline is a bit misleading, it was my opinion that the public quick-quotes from the administration after the initial Agentine claim tilted, even if just slightly, towards Argentina.
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One HUGE drawback to the Argentinian claim is that British citizens have lived on the islands since 1833. It's one HARSH place to live - cold, damp, windy, with frequent storms. Trees won't grow there. The Argentinians have lost two wars over the Falklands - one in 1832 and one in 1982. The Falklands are usually brought up by the Argentine government to take the mind of the local folks off the incompetence of the current administration.
The base on Ascension Island is a British base used by the United States. Ascension Island is another British colony in the Atlantic, along with Tristan da Cunha and St. Helena. The US uses the base on Ascension Island to track satellite and space shuttle launches. The runway was beefed up and extended at US expense to handle C-141 aircraft, but the US has NEVER taken possession of the base, the runway, or any part of the island.
Practically the only industry on the Falklands is sheep raising. The islands provide a significant amount of lamb and wool to Britain, in exchange for just about everything else. The current occupants are descendants of British settlers from the late 1830's.
Argentina's claim is at best extremely weak. Unfortunately, the British Labour government has allowed the British military to deteriorate to the point where it may not be possible for them to protect their investments in the Falklands or elsewhere. A weak, self-centered US president only encourages the Argentinians.
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This isn't a change in policy, relax, this has been US policy since 18-longtime ago. You may recall President Reagan mediating. Granted, after mediation failed out came the AIM-9z and the largest US airlift between NickelGrass and Desert Storm... but still...
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Maybe so, but sometimes when the kids are squabbling, it helps for Dad to offer a stern look and a "Don't make me come over there!" to help events resolve themselves peacefully. Even if Dad has no intention whatsoever of getting off the couch.
Efforts to drill 50 miles off Virginia's coast have garnered unusual bipartisan support here, with both Democratic U.S. senators behind it as well as eight of the state's 11 congressmen. It will be up to those congressional representatives to lead the way on securing royalties from the production of oil and gas.
Rep. Robert W. Goodlatte, R-6th, introduced legislation in the House of Representatives last Thursday to clear regulatory roadblocks to drilling. Seven members of Virginia's congressional delegation joined as co-sponsors.
Governor McDonnell said he wants Virginia to get the 37.5 percent state's share of revenues that the Gulf Coast states get but indicated that Midwestern states could seek a portion of that money. Congress will decide the percentage of royalties.
McDonnell disputed estimates by environmental groups that there is scant oil or gas and said it is likely that more is out there.
"Whether it's a year's worth of oil or whether it's a hundred years worth of oil, whatever we can find offshore is that much less that we have to depend on Iran, Iraq, Venezuela and Russia and other countries that don't always support the United States of America," said McDonnell, flanked by his secretaries of commerce and trade and natural resources at the South Portico of the state Capitol.
Environmental groups strongly criticized the decision by Obama and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. Offering the Virginia lease sale as soon as 2011 "represents a horrible rush to judgment that trumps thorough environmental study with politics as usual," said Eileen Levandoski, Hampton Roads coordinator with the Sierra Club.
"Despite the fact that information on the possible effects of Atlantic drilling is '30 years out of date' as Interior Secretary Salazar points out, Virginia's offshore areas will be leased to Big Oil in little over one year and the bull allowed into the china shop."
Virginia is first in line because it was included in an offshore plan proposed by the Bush administration for 2007-12.
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Those who are unwilling to have oil drilling 'in their back yard' should be unwilling to use oil. If drilling is such a bad thing for them, it would be a bad thing for everyone. Or is it that they are special, but it's just fine for the little people to suffer.
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Those who are unwilling to have wind turbines in their back yard should be unwilling to use electricity. Even though this is fly over country, many who live here in west Kans. love our scenery and appreciate mother earth.
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At the end of the day Obama's "support" of offshore drilling is about as meaningful as his executive order to ban federal funding of abortion. Just another ill fated ruse concocted to convince an increasingly hostile public that Mr. Obama isn't really thw worst thing that has happened to our country since 9/11.
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I'll echo Keeney. Obama - drill? Pure BS. It'll never happen to any meaningful degree. OTH, Utah sez it's about to go ED on the feds to recover it's territory. hmmmmmmmm - one can hope. I need a drink.
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Fight against offshore drilling for twenty years, and then argue that the environmental impact studies you've been using to delay the drilling are now "thirty years out of date" and demand a new series of impact studies.
Repeat as necessary until the heat death of the universe.
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I guess that's SHip's asshole way of saying we're all on drugs.
I guess he thinks we shouldn't listen to the people we know in the industry up in the Intermountain West who are suffering because a large amount of the new leases there have been delayed or outright cancelled.
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Not so sure that was Shipman's message. I saw it more as an allusion to Obama blowing psychoactive smoke up our @$$ in regards to drilling. In that sense, Teh One hopes we're on drugs.
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Actually, I think it's a wacky episode of "The Big Picture"...
Sens. Jim Webb and Mark Warner both released statements that praised Obama today. "This is good news and a positive step forward as we work to expand our nation's domestic energy production," Warner said. "Moving forward on the mid-Atlantic off-shore proposal will provide an opportunity to determine the scope of our region's off-shore energy resources, the economic viability of accessing those resources, and the potential impacts on our environmental and national security priorities." Bush's plan was stoopid, anyway.
Warner and Webb plan to partner up later this year to introduce a bill that would allow Virginia to release a share of the royalties. "This policy should be coupled with a fair and equitable formula for profit-sharing between the federal and state government in order to attract well-paying jobs to the Commonwealth and support a range of projects, from clean energy development to transportation infrastructure to coastal restoration," Webb said.
But U.S. Rep. James P. Moran Jr. (D), who represents traffic-clogged Northern Virginia, argues that Congress has repeatedly rejected attempts by Atlantic Coast states to receive royalties. Congress? Cheat the states?
"Drilling will have no impact on Virginia's transportation crisis anytime soon, even if a majority in Congress were to agree to give up future federal revenue,'' he said. "Oil and gas development off Virginia's coast will be a long and drawn-out process whose results will not be known for close to a decade."
The last study of the Atlantic Ocean by the federal government, conducted two decades ago, estimated that at least 130 million barrels of oil and at least 1.14 trillion cubic feet of natural gas could be off Virginia's coast. That's equal to the amount of oil used in six days and the amount of gas used in less than a month in the United States. How many days worth of oil do we get from Venezuala?
Environmental groups worry that possible spills and new infrastructure onshore and off could harm plants, animals, tourism and the naval base in Norfolk, the world's largest. When the enviros start to owrry about a naval base?
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One of the "dirty little secrets" the enviros don't want you to know is that the drilling platforms in the Gulf of Mexico have greatly INCREASED the amount of sea life in the area. The drilling platforms function as artificial reefs that provide protection from predators, including man. Fishing from boats is prohibited within a specific distance from the platforms, in order to protect them from inadvertent damage. The Sierra Club (and most "environmental" groups) don't want anything resembling PROGRESS. If the US is to survive as a free and independent country, we're going to have to learn to ignore these people.
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As Obama offers drilling in the Atlantic (south of Joisey), he forbids drilling in the Pacific, the Gulf around Florida, huge areas in Alaska and most everywhere in the interior 48.
Watch the hands, not the mouth ...
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"we're going to have to learn to ignore these people"
I prefer to ridicule them, OP. ;-p
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
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Never gonna happen. "The One" knows that the EPA will block any progress towards offshore drilling, and, in addition, where is the additional (and required) refinery capacity going to come from? Oh, yeah, wait....after Iran becomes vitrious, some of the refineries in the M.E. may have additional capacity....
Found while researching something else. These people are insane.
H.R. 4287 -- "Enhancing Livability for All Americans Act of 2009
Sponsor: Rep. Steve Cohen [D-TN] (introduced 12/11/2009)
Chapter 3 of Title 23, USC, is amended by adding at the end the following:
Sec. 330. Office of Livability
(a) Establishment - The Secretary shall establish within the Office of the Secretary an office to be known as the `Office of Livability' (in this section referred to as the `Office') to--
(1) provide funding, leadership, and support for transportation projects, planning, and policies at all levels of government that enhance livability; and
(2) work to create and maintain a safe, reliable, integrated, and accessible transportation network that improves the economic and social well-being of the people of the United States by enhancing choices for transportation users that--
(A) provide easy access to employment opportunities and other destinations; and
(B) promote positive effects on the surrounding community and environment. It goes on from there, unfortunately. No Congressional Research Service summary yet (it's been almost 4 months since introduction -- maybe they're too ashamed?).
[Note to Fred - "Preview" doesn't work. Thought it was just on my work computer, but I'm working from home today so that's not it.]
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Don't we have a Secretary of Transportation?
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I was seeing some erratic preview action - sometimes in a new window, and sometimes not at all. I thought it was my browser. Working right now for me.
the greater danger is that the Sec of Transportation himself is a political hack with no regard for quantitative science except where it can be used to support his pet ideas
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It starts with a productive job. Something less than 10% of this administration is familiar with.
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Obama tonight on the "CBS Evening News with Katie Couric" and Friday morning on "The Early Show."
Smith also asked the president if he is aware of the extreme terms some use to describe him, such as "socialist" or "Nazi." I am sure CBS is getting thier cues from Obama's Media Czar
Watch CBS News Videos Online"Well, I think that when you listen to Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck, it's pretty apparent, and it's troublesome, but keep in mind that there have been periods in American history where this kind of vitriol comes out," Mr. Obama said. "It happens often when you've got an economy that is making people more anxious, and people are feeling like there is a lot of change that needs to take place. But that's not the vast majority of Americans. I think the vast majority of Americans know that we're trying hard, that I want what's best for the country." "vitrol". Anything that is said that is not in lock step with the man boy. Like in the final McCain/Obama election debate when Obama said the entire McCain campaign was a 100% lie.
"I didn't buy all the hype, right after inauguration, where everybody was only saying nice things about me," he added. "And I don't get too worried when things aren't going as well because I know that over time these things turn." Read between the lines. This guy hates even boot lickers. Yet the sordid MSM still keeps boot licking.
The president said both Democrats and Republicans have a responsibility to tone down the rhetoric, but that much of it has to do with the current media environment in which extreme comments are echoed in the blogosphere. Any dissent is radical and extreme.
I've known 4-year-old girls with thicker skin that this whiner.
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that = than
PIMF :-(
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
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CBS just ran a story a couple of hours ago about the 'Stop Obama' billboards springing up in Atlanta. I went to their website...there are more coming and neither Rush nor Glenn have a thing to do with it.
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Tone it down?
How dare this jerk-*ff assume that kind of paternal attitude with regard to the People's Right to Freedom of Expression? What a self-important pretentious imperious assh*le. Not only is he a disaster as a President, he is a self-absorbed, preening, arrogant jerk on a personal level, and the list of his lies just grows and grows.
Impeachment is becomming a necessity more and more each day.
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We'll tone it down when his lick-spittle media stops calling Tea Partiers racists, Nazis and tools of either the GOP or Fox News.
Maybe.
Or maybe not.
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I have to revise my above statement. The more I think about the utter arrogance and narcissism that Obama oozes... the more I want to tell him to fuck off.
So, Mr. President Dipshit. Please fuck off.
I will not tone it down and you can kiss my ass, you fucking communist shit.
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ION TOPIX > SOMALI REBELS PLAN ATTACK ON COUNTRY'S CAPITAL + AL-SHABAAB: MOGADISHU WILL BE IN OUR HANDS BEFORE TRAINING SOLDIERS RETURN HOME [overseas/neighboring contries].
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* SAME > AL QAEDA'S CHECHEN HAND? RUSS METRO BOMBINGS hints at future new troubles not only for RUSSIA, but also CHINA [Xinjiang > Uighurs-East TUrkestan Mivement] + CARS CENTRAL ASIAN REPUBLICS [former Soviet SSRS = -STANS].
ARTIC > AFPAK Militants may be moving across the borders outside of AFPAK into SURROUNDING REGIONS BOTH TO DISRUPT NATO LOGISTICS FLOWS INTO AFPAK, + TO DEV, LAUNCH VIOLENT JIHAD = INSURGENCIES AGZ THEIR OWN MODERATE = ANTI/NON-ISLAMIST LOCAL GOVTS.
Lest we fergit, US-IRAN WAR + BASE-TOO-FAR QATAR [US suffers debilitaing DUNKIRK/GALLIPOLI-type MILPOL SCENARIO folowing problematic invasion of Iran + Persian Gulf].
* DREAM/VISION > 1990's NET > "SICKLE/CRESCENT DAWN" ["Red Dawn"] > US SOLDIERS WATCH THE TROUBLES/CHAOS IN CONUS-NORAM, AMERICA = AMERIKA, FROM FOREIGN SHORES, UNABLE TO HELP.
* NOSTRADAMUS > "NONE SHALL SEE THE POWERS OF ASIA DESTROYED UNTIL THE SEVEN/SEVENTH HOLDS THE LINE...".
COnsistent wid the MSM-NET repor "End-Times", Apocalyptic beliefs of OSAMA + MOUD + ISLAMISTS, as per GOD/HEAVEN-mandated "decisive battle" for Islam being fought on the shores of Persia-Iran.
["WHITE RABBIT" theme from OLIVER STONE'S PLATOON + MTV here].
Health reform may have finally become law, but the partisan wars over the bill continue to rage -- and the latest flash point is a debate about whether the $940 billion overhaul means thousands of new government workers are about to bloat the federal payroll.
Republicans lawmakers are warning the law would put as many as 16,000 new Internal Revenue Service agents and workers on the streets. They claim Democrats tucked dozens of new departments and boards into the bill. And Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) predicts a massive expansion of the federal work force.
"There are going to be tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, before this is all over," DeMint told POLITICO. "We are going to be looking for the real truth of what this means. Just on something as simple as having 16,000 IRS agents chasing them around, that is going to open a lot of eyes."
There's just one problem: Experts say the figures are highly speculative.
Administration aides, who were cognizant that creating massive new bureaucracies would be bad politics, have sought to minimize the potential for a major expansion, sources said.
But the Obama administration has done little to quiet this tempest, as the key players who will implement the new law have provided few specifics on how it may increase the federal payroll.
Most of the burden for implementing the law rests with the Department of Health and Human Services. But in a video interview with POLITICO, Secretary Kathleen Sebelius could not provide an exact figure of additional workers, estimating it at only in the hundreds.
"Some of what is anticipated is new responsibilities potentially, not necessarily new people or new bureaucracies," Sebelius said. "I'm a big believer that you start with assuming that you do more with less. You know we have new responsibilities, but we've got to figure out what within our resources we have the capacity to take on immediately."
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Repubs kill the bill or the Republicrat party dies like the Whigs.
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If they cant kill the bill then kill the funding.
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16,000 new Internal Revenue Service agents and workers on the streets. They claim Democrats tucked dozens of new departments and boards into the bill.
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Is BO minions counting these 16,000 IRS agents along with the census workers in the newly released employment/unemployment statistics--in other words cooking the books?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
"Whether it's a year's worth of oil or whether it's a hundred years worth of oil, whatever we can find offshore is that much less that we have to depend on Iran, Iraq, Venezuela and Russia and other countries that don't always support the United States of America," said McDonnell, flanked by his secretaries of commerce and trade and natural resources at the South Portico of the state Capitol.
Obama tonight on the "CBS Evening News with Katie Couric" and Friday morning on "The Early Show."
