All summer long, we heard from the Democrats that we couldn’t drill out of our energy problem. It would take years for new wells to produce oil. Then the economic crisis hit, a recession looms (or has started) and the global demand for oil caused a drop in gasoline prices like never before.

In response, the Democrats are already going soft on new drilling. John Podesta said last week on FoxNews Sunday that it was a mistake to drill “in some of the most sensitive, fragile lands in Utah”.

It is likely that the Democrats will reverse their position on drilling. They won’t call for drilling until the public is outraged…and then they will claim it is too late to do anything about it. This is not leadership. This is a party dragged to extremes by public opinion and environmental interest groups.

Congress could help promote job creation using free market principals by simply allowing for more drilling and reducing regulation that enable clean coal technologies and shale oil…but the oil companies are not a political favorite like the auto companies.

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