From a Telegraph LTE:
"Sen. John Sununu got it right when he said this week: "China is drilling 60 miles off the coast of Florida, and the extreme, left-wing environmental groups will not allow us to do the same."
Will New Hampshire Reps. Carol Shea-Porter and Paul Hodes get the message that it's time to step up to the plate?
John E. got that talking point right, alright. Right from the Mt. Everest of GOP failure, Dick Cheney himself:
Vice President Dick Cheney, in a speech Wednesday to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, picked up the refrain. Cheney quoted a column by George Will, who wrote last week that "drilling is under way 60 miles off Florida. The drilling is being done by China, in cooperation with Cuba, which is drilling closer to South Florida than U.S. companies are."
In his speech, Cheney described the Chinese as being "in cooperation with the Cuban government. Even the communists have figured out that a good answer to higher prices means more supply."
Of course, talking points from Cheney about oil are no good unless the loyal White House enablers swing into action, mounting an immediate "coordinated effort" in Congress.
Only one problem. Cheney and George Will were flat out wrong. So undeniably wrong that Cheney, in a momentary lapse from the juggernaut of his trademark hubris, had to own up to the mistake.
When should we expect an apology from Sununu for uncritically spreading Cheney's talking points, do you think?
(Major hat tip to elwood who, doubtless offended by such a moronic statement, dug up the emerging backstory.)
Update: Forget about Cheney getting it from George Will. Looks like this whole thing got started from a weirdly coordinated LTE campaign that quickly moved up the system to be a GOP talking point.
What's so fitting about all this is how it punches a hole clean through the fiction that John E. is some kind of maverick, independent from his party.
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