Yup. Partisanship does that to people despite themselves.

Offshore drilling for instance. It's getting everyone divided along partisan lines now, but more than 2 or 3 months ago, it wasn't even an issue since all the experts agreed that since America holds so little of the world's oil reserves, no amount of drilling would be able to cure it. Lifting the ban on offshore drilling doesn't guarantee that oil companies are going to just start drilling a.s.a.p. in order to help out the average consumer. Besides, if they're to drill and 5 to 7 years from now we see some oil, why would they sell it to us when they could get more money from say, France?

McCain and Obama had the decency to be informed about this before they ran for President, but now they're both backtracking, obfuscating, and flip-flopping because it's politically expedient to do so, not because the idea has any merit.

But this lie is now being used to divide us, and it's a sick joke, frankly, since no oil man is going to come to our rescue, no matter how much we keep investing in them. All the tax cuts and capital gains tax cuts and corporate welfare in the world won't change those people, as seen by the policies of recent years.