Drilling for trouble

How Can You Even Think of Drilling at a Time Like This?

That's what I want to know. Yesterday, I blasted some particularly ignorant pols and pundits who were still including shout outs to offshore drilling in their standard boilerplate speeches -- but nobody would be seriously seeking to advocate a policy of expanded drilling right now, would they? Rational pros and cons aside, it'd just be politically, well, stupid, right? Evidently not to Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu, who represents the very state that stands to get pummeled by the oil, and House Minority Leader John Boehner. They're both seriously seeking to approve more offshore drilling right now.

Yes -- right now, as a bare minimum of 200,000 gallons of oil (higher estimates put it closer to 1 million) spews into the Gulf a day, and a supreme case of negligence (albeit legal) from BP that allowed the disaster to happen unfolding before our eyes, these politicians are seriously already trying to lobby for expanded drilling

They think that Climate Change is a figment of the imagination. When the slick comes ashore will they think it is just some CGI trick? Or will they simply ignore the facts so their wallets can benefit?