Obama did recently claim that he was open to drilling as part of an energy plan. But his actual plan seems to leave this out. It also leaves out nuclear energy, but uses tax dollars to subsidize alternatives that have not proven to be effective.

Politicians are mostly stupid, and they are mostly slimy. And there is no better example of this than the current Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi. The belief of a lot of pundits both on the left and the right is that the Democrats can take the White House and increase their Congressional numbers due [...]