No Mosquito Blood For Oil!

Democrats push for Alaska drilling ban

WASHINGTON - Opponents of oil drilling in an Alaskan wildlife refuge are going on the offense after playing defense for a quarter of a century. They want the new Democratic Congress to make an oft-challenged drilling ban permanent.

Legislation introduced in the House on Friday would make the oil-rich 1.2 million-acre coastal strip of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge a permanently protected wilderness and end repeated efforts to open the area east of the Prudhoe oil field to energy companies.

"The consensus is that there should not be drilling in the refuge, so the logical next step is to pass legislation which turns it into a wilderness," Rep. Edward Markey (news, bio, voting record), D-Mass., chief sponsor of the legislation, said in an interview.

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Yes, well, protecting a desolate, barren mosquito haven from the predations of Man is certainly a worthy cause.

Perhaps the majority will sponsor a bill whereby the government subsidizes the harvesting of aborted babies for some sort of silly alternative fuel.

Thus begins the dumbest House ever!