are playing election politics, and it is a scorched earth campaign. If it wasn't stopped by republicans in congress, a presidential veto would have stopped any compromise on offshore drilling. They were going to get offshore drilling no matter what the democrats or enviros did, and they were going to make the democrats and enviros look bad doing it.

Look at the campaign that McCain is running, its one of the sleaziest and dishonest in modern history. Is that a campaign of a party that wants to reach out and work with the other side?

The New York Times run an editorial that warned with the way McCain and the republicans are running now it will be very difficult to have any bipartisanship come 2009, and if McCain won he would be unable to effectively run the country.