The Obama Administration is to open Blackbeard’s waters to drilling. This isn’t in response to anything imminent; indeed, in the same issue of the Times linked above, there is a discussion of the stability of oil prices. With healthcare done and cap-and-trade still on the table, one smells yet another attempt at… bipartisanship.

Good luck peeling off any Republicans, Mr. President. You’ve not done it so far and a few oil rigs aren’t going to do the trick. Better leadership than you showed on 90 percent of healthcare might help a bit more. When you can make the people understand your position, Congress will fall into line. When you leave it to Congress to interpret for you, you get 500 clucking, cacophonous voices saying whatever the heck they want, and clarity vanishes.

Meanwhile, we’ve just completed the wettest March ever here in the Northeast, good news for summer reservoir levels and the mosquito population. Seems to me, in my purely unscientific, instinctive way, that all that water in the air has to come from somewhere and might just be connected to the whole global warming thing, so no hurry.

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