Bold is mine:
Bipartisan pressure is building on the Obama administration to reconsider its ban on new offshore drilling, with Gulf lawmakers decrying the moratorium as an overreaction to the BP oil spill that will compound the economic damage the disaster is inflicting on their states.
Lawmakers and industry groups warn that the moratorium could cost thousands of jobs and drain hundreds of millions of dollars out of the local economy. That's on top of the billions of dollars studies predict could be lost from hits to the tourism and fishing industries along the Gulf.
President Obama, in an interview Thursday, defended the decision as necessary to give officials time to figure out what went wrong before the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded April 20 -- killing 11 workers and triggering the historic leak -- and how to prevent such a disaster from happening again.
"Until that happens, it would be irresponsible of me to lift that moratorium," Obama said on CNN. More at FOX News::
Uh, hey boys, perhaps you think Obama is just being cautious. After all, he says he's just being cautious ... it's just a coincidence that his caution is in line with the liberal dream ... crush capilitalism any way possible. Keep voting for the libs though. You'll have plenty of time to make it to the polls without that pesky job of yours getting in the way.

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