Someone needs to call them on this insanity. Specifically Obama.

This is from the guy who is more qualified than McFuddle for the job of President. What a freakin mess the GOP is in these days!

There are days that I wish we could have run against him. Like every day, for instance.

What? China drilling off the coast of Florida is not related to 9/11?

A big Brazilian oil company spent $17 million in 2001 looking for oil in Cuban waters. A big Spanish oil company drilled a mile down 18 miles off the coast of Cuba in 2004. They didn't find anything worthwhile. USA Today in 2007 and the NY Times in 2006 had articles predicting China would be looking for oil this year in Cuban waters this year. It hasn't happened probably because deep seas rigs are expensive and hard to come by.

Fact is there's lots better places to look for oil than Cuba or off the FL coast. The Chinese aren't that dumb but Republicans are.

TPM, you can do better with your headline-writing. The China-Cuba drilling story is a lie. Not myth, not "conspiracy," but a lie. Please, call a spade a spade.

Obviously Glen Schreck agrees with that lie also. Why is that idiot on CNN?? He demeans their brand with his nonesense. Doesn't Rudy understand that the people in Florida don't want offshore drilling?? Perhaps he didn't spend enough time down there to know that. I hope that Johnny picks Crist as VP. Now that Crist has jumped on the let's drill everywhere bandwagon, they might just lose Florida.

From the pic, it appears that Rudi is trying to pop a cap in someone's a$$ using a finger gun.

where to begin?

first, don't the Chinese already own most of our debt? we're shocked that they would deal with someone else?

second, if we had a sane policy about trade with Cuba, we might have oil contracts there. but NOOOOOOO, we're signing contracts in Iraq...which we all know will make us far more energy secure and strategically secure? and we won't give the Cubans wristwatches, much less oil production technology

and please, who is listening to this guy anyway? why would McBush put a guy out front that no one would vote for? in his own party?

The average American brainiac couldn't identify the Strait of Hormuz if a sheikh wrapped him in oilcloth and dunked him right in the middle of it. The Cuba-China oil connection brings the enemy's nefarious activities right up to our precious shores. This talking point has emotional firepower, regardless of the lack of truth in it.

Yeah Rudy is the genius amongst idiots,....so Cuba is roughly 100 miles away from Florida and American oil rights are around 200+ miles,....so really we should be able to drill right in downtown Havana under his theories of genius. These type of Republicans are what's wrong with American standing in the world,....all they cry out is "it's mine,mine,mine,mine.....me,me,me,me,me,me". This is rich when he says "it would much better if american companies would do the drilling". If only these assholes would say that about most manufacturing jobs that are sent to China.

Repeating myths? That's the GOP's whole plan. They did it to get us into Iraq, they're doing it to get us into Iran, they're doing it to discredit Obama, and they'll keep doing it until they're driven from power.

Yeah like the price of gas won't have any affect on the election freaktown. This is an important issue and Repubs are trying to dishonestly use it to bludgeon Dems. You may think it's more productive to ignore it but we'd be fools to let them get away with it.

You may check here for extents of Exclusive Economic Zones in the Straits of Florida:

http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/infobank/gazette/html/regions/flez.html

A couple of other points:

1. Deep-ocean drilling rigs don't work well in even moderate current flows, and the Straits of Florida has one of the world's swiftest, the Gulf Stream. How to even hold station with a rig in that region would be a difficult task. I have seen the Gulf Stream flow within a few miles of the northern coast of Cuba, so even in the Cuban EEZ drilling could be risky.

2. Drilling just offshore in that area will be possible. There the near-shore current flow is generally east to west, around the western end of Cuba, thence eastward along the southern Cuban coastline -- dispersing right into the most productive Cuban lobster beds. The Cubans know this, and I'd be surprised if the risk of destroying such a fertile fishing region is not of great concern to them.

The headline for this story is "Norm Coleman: China Drilling Off U.S." Shores. This is the story about Rudy Giuliani. Make the correction please.