{"id":6126,"date":"2010-07-15T17:53:36","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T21:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=6126"},"modified":"2010-07-15T17:55:25","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T21:55:25","slug":"phone-book-and-faculty-agree-obamas-drilling-moratorium-bad-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/6126\/phone-book-and-faculty-agree-obamas-drilling-moratorium-bad-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Phone Book and Faculty Agree: Obama’s Drilling Moratorium a Bad Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"

William F. Buckley, Jr. famously said<\/a> that he’d rather be governed by the first 400 names in the Boston phonebook than by the Harvard faculty.<\/p>\n

Every so often, however, the phone book and the faculty actually agree.\u00a0 According to a new Bloomberg poll<\/a>, a remarkable 73% of respondents oppose our supposed philosopher-king Barack Obama’s drilling moratorium.\u00a0 What makes this remarkable is that approximately three-quarters of the American public, which very rarely seems to find consensus on anything these days, just doesn’t buy Obama’s constant drumbeat of scapegoating the oil industry, “deregulation” or the previous administration.\u00a0 What makes this even more remarkable, however, is that Obama’s own appointed “experts” agree with everyday citizens.\u00a0 As noted in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a>, the hyper-partisan investigatory panel selected by Obama himself expresses skepticism toward his moratorium.<\/p>\n

Add the fact that two separate courts<\/a> have rejected the Obama Administration’s ill-advised moratorium, which is jeopardizing even more jobs in that hard-hit region, and we’re approaching unanimity against the self-professed “bridge-builder” Obama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

William F. Buckley, Jr. famously said that he’d rather be governed by the first 400 names in the Boston phonebook than by the Harvard faculty. Every so often, however, the phone book and the faculty actually agree.\u00a0 According to a new Bloomberg poll, a remarkable 73% of respondents oppose our supposed philosopher-king Barack Obama’s drilling […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1215,1549,1217,1468,24,1216,991,1504],"class_list":["post-6126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-bp","tag-drilling","tag-gulf","tag-moratorium","tag-obama","tag-oil","tag-poll","tag-spill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6126"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6128,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6126\/revisions\/6128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}