Such a brilliant move by the Obama Team to endorse offshore drilling back in March of this year. This is how Frank Rich described it:
Other White House geniuses persuaded the president to make his fateful claim in early April that “oil rigs today generally don’t cause spills” — a particularly specious (indeed false) plank in the argument for his spectacularly ill-timed expansion of offshore oil drilling. The Times reported last week that at the administration meetings leading to this new drilling policy the subject of the vast dysfunction at the Minerals Management Service, the agency charged with regulating the drilling, never even came up."Brilliant" idea in March. Disaster in April. Still wondering which of those geniuses at the White House came up with this idea.
There was support for offshore drilling when Obama flipped his position. Not anymore. The American people have shifted on offshore drilling (finally.) Via Political Wire: A new CBS News Poll finds that Americans are rapidly reconsidering their views of offshore drilling as oil continues to spill into the Gulf of Mexico.
In the latest poll, 51% of people believe increased offshore drilling is "too risky" with 40% still in favor. That is a huge swing from August 2008, when 62% of people favored increased offshore drilling and just 28% opposed it. It is also a large shift from just a month ago, when 41% believed it was too risky and 46% were in favor.
