{"id":493815,"date":"2010-03-31T13:30:58","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T17:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=76017"},"modified":"2010-03-31T13:30:58","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T17:30:58","slug":"surprise-republicans-suddenly-oppose-offshore-oil-drilling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/493815","title":{"rendered":"Surprise! Republicans Suddenly Oppose Offshore Oil Drilling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/e2-wire\/677-e2-wire\/89999-boehner-rebukes-obama-offshore-drilling-plan\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-76021\" title=\"4084652166_c903e70ef6\" src=\"http:\/\/static1.firedoglake.com\/1\/files\/2010\/03\/4084652166_c903e70ef6-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"155\" \/>So predictable<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class='wbq'>\n<p><strong>President Barack Obama&#8217;s plan to allow expanded offshore oil and gas exploration won rebuke from the top House Republican on Wednesday. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>House Minority  Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) dismissed the president&#8217;s plan as not going far enough in opening up U.S. waters for exploration.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Obama&#8217;s decision  &#8220;continues to defy the will of the American people,&#8221; Boehner said in a statement, pointing to the president&#8217;s decision to open Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico waters, while leaving Pacific and many  Alaskan waters largely closed to exploration.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Obama could propose cutting taxes to zero, deporting everyone who can&#8217;t speak English, renaming the country &#8220;Jesusland&#8221;&#8230;doesn&#8217;t matter.<\/p>\n<p>The GOP answer will always be the same.<\/p>\n<p>(h\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2010_03\/023133.php\">Benen<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-this\/share-icon-16x16.gif\" alt=\"Share This icon\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=76017&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"Email, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_76017\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"noindex nofollow\">&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So predictable. President Barack Obama&#8217;s plan to allow expanded offshore oil and gas exploration won rebuke from the top House Republican on Wednesday. House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) dismissed the president&#8217;s plan as not going far enough in opening up U.S. waters for exploration. Obama&#8217;s decision &#8220;continues to defy the will of the American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5394,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}