Florida's Republican State Legislators - Oh teh Crazy Part Deux!!

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Democratic Friends:

Apparently Charlie Van Zant (R-Keystone Heights, FL) thinks that the Cubans and terrorists are just going to show up one day three miles off the coast of Florida and set up their own oil rig in plain sight of the touristas, the Coast Guard, the Navy and the natives and start drilling for oil and piping it underwater back to Havana so we'd better start drilling now and beat them to the punch!

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This kind of crazy has to be an inborn talent – I just don’t see how you could teach it.

Here’s my post in reply to this story at the Sentinel’s Political Pulse Blog:

Charlie Van Zant - what an embarassing idiot.

Are there ninjas on your lawn too Charlie?

Do you really think that a foreign government is going to violate not only Federal waters but come all the way to within THREE to TEN miles of Florida's shoreline and blatantly set up an oil rig and start drilling?

It's either time for you to stop drinking or start. In any event, it's a shame that 70,000 voters somewhere in Florida have to call YOU their state representative!

Oh teh crazy!

Doug D.

Original Sentinel Story:

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/news_politics/2009/04/florida-legislature-fending-off-the-arabs-and-cubans-for-oil.html

TALLAHASSEE -- Oil-drilling sponsor Rep. Charles Van Zant, R-Keystone Heights, said in floor debate today that exploration 3-10 miles from Florida’s coastline is a “national security issue” because if we don’t drill, terrorist sympathizers would use technology to extract oil under state waters.
Zant said “Arabs,” as well as those from Cuba, Argentina and elsewhere, would extract Florida’s oil and natural gas and “use the profits from that as terrorist activities against our nation.”
“We must drill,” he said.

The late-hour proposal to allow the governor and Cabinet to authorize oil and natural gas exploration off the coastline is on the House floor today – and drawing testy question-and-answer sessions between Van Zant and Democrats opposed to the idea.

Question from Rep. Evan Jenne, D-Dania Beach: There’s no chance of an oil spill?
Van Zant: With modern technology instead of the “archaic equipment” involved in Exxon Valdez, oil spills are “more or less a thing of the past."

"Can I guarantee you this personally, can I give you a 100 percent? No, sir. But I can tell you it’s very, very minimal.”

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1. if only Fidel had shot at some food, and up from the ground came a bubblin' crude ...

he'd be best buddies with the U.S. Repukenicons ...

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2. Didn't work for Saddam....

Just motivated them to invade Iraq so we could steal their oil.

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3. Saddam was best buddies with the Repukes ...

until he decided to invade Kuwait ... then Bush41 had to save face.