The Dems are gonna have blood on their hands.

I may be considered a “bleeding heart libera”l by the two conservative states in which I reside (Alaska and Montana), but I really have to diverge from the other liberals on the touchy ANWR issue. The Senate Democrats - who come from mostly states whose revenues are supported by income tax or sales tax (at the detriment of their citizens’ well-being) - seem to ignore the issue at heart with ANWR. The issue that, according to this article, has been at the core of Sen. Stevens’ 37-year career: fighting to insure Alaskans receive everything guaranteed to them under the Alaska Statehood Act. The Act says that we Alaskans are entitled to develop that northern most strip of land in ANWR. Drilling would not occur in the actual Wildlife Refuge.

The worst part about this, is the country is arguing about something they know nothing about from first-hand experience. They only argue and bicker based on information that someone either handed to them that morning in an Executive Summary/Briefing, or what Greenpeace/other-such-cronies keep bitching about to the Media.

Get off the fucking soapbox, and let us drill. We aren’t going to hurt anything, and if you make sure that the land lessees use only environmentally-sound drilling practices (they exist - BP and Conoco know how to use them, not Exxon) the world will be safe. And caribou won’t have a problem with the development (for evidence, see how they reacted to the Trans-Alaska Pipeline). Check it out people, and get off the fucking bandwagon (Dems’ or the GOP’s) and pay attention to reality. The sooner you start doing that, the sooner you’ll stop being such stupid shits.

The sooner you won’t have to pay for a really pathetic lawsuit. Alaskans are contractually allowed to drill. It’s written in the act that made us state (for the ignorant, we’ve been one since 1959, and we aren’t a foreign nation).

Senate Blocks Alaska Refuge Drilling