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Don't Spill the Oil Bill
House should bow to Senate, for now, on offshore drilling.
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Ronald Reagan taught that there's nothing wrong with incrementalism. Again and again, many of those who claim to be his philosophical descendants forget Reagan's lessons.
In Ronald Reagan's image, then, the House conservatives ought to vote to accept the Senate bill without a single comma changed -- and then, next year, continue their campaign to educate the Senate about the merits of careful expansion of drilling in other areas as well.
Any other course would represent fool's black gold.
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Quin Hillyer is a senior editor of The American Spectator and a senior fellow at the Center for Individual Freedom.
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