Worst Headline of The Day
November 11, 2008 1:53 pm ET by Eric Boehlert
Goes to the WSJ's "New Administration Would Risk Backlash With Gas-Drilling Reversal."
It's about the possible political drawbacks the Obama administration would face for taking quick action to reverse the current White House's decision to expand natural-gas drilling in Utah. That's all well and good in terms of a legit news story.
But the Journal never points to any proof (i.e. polling data) to substantiate the claim that Obama would face a "backlash" if he halted the drilling. The closest the article comes is here:
John P. Burke, a professor at the University of Vermont who wrote a book on presidential transitions, said the incoming administration risks a partisan backlash if it clamps down too hard on drilling -- especially coming off a campaign in which a potent Republican rallying cry was "Drill, baby, drill!"
So basically, hardcore Republicans might be upset with the gas-drilling reversal. But we're pretty sure partisan Republicans are going to be upset by all sorts of initiatives taken by the Obama team.
To us, that hardly constitutes a "backlash."
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Potent? If it's so potent, why did they lose?
Come to think of it, why is it that when Republicans say crap during elections it doesn't go away after they lose?
Remember "Bozo and the Ozone Man"? I swear it was cited without the derision that should go with it, but as matter of fact by serious people, when Al Gore won the Nobel prize. (No Lexis/Nexis, sorry.)
-- But the Journal never points to any proof (i.e. polling data) to substantiate the claim... hardcore Republicans might be upset with the gas-drilling reversal. -- county fair
Must be a lot of hardcore repubulicans masquerading as something else. Let me help you out a little with recent polling supporting more domestic drilling:
CNN - 74%...CBS - 62%...ABC - 63%...FOX - 76%.
Concerning the 'almighty polling data' that mmfa is always so concerned with...here's a little something to chew on:
According to Rasmussen...fully 30% of democrat voters don't even know who Harry Reid is...what a joke...but explained very well by Erikson/Tedin...cited by mmfa as polling experts.
They explain why polling results are not to be trusted when respondents are "less sophisticated"...which apparently reflects the intellect of nearly 1/3 of the democrat party.