Senate Democrats Block Alaska Drilling

From FOXNews:

WASHINGTON — The Senate [ED: Democrats] blocked the defense spending bill Wednesday in order to force out provisions on oil drilling in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge. The measure had been put into a must-pass defense spending bill in an attempt to get the drilling through the Senate despite opposition.

Drilling supporters fell four votes short of getting the required 60 votes to avoid a threatened filibuster of the defense measure over the oil drilling issue. Senate leaders were expected to withraw the legislation so it could be reworked without the refuge language. The vote was 56-44.

My Comments:
Just so you know who to blame when your home-heating costs go through the roof.

But not to worry: the Democrats' new friend, that good little communist (and Castro-mini-me) Hugo Chavez, has promised to provide oil for the poor to heat their homes with this winter. What a nice man.