Obama Stops All New Off-Shore Drilling: America's Dependence on Foreign Oil Continues after Mysterious Oil Rig Fire

Despite a White House memo suggesting Obama’s commitment to drilling for oil to lessen foreign dependence, Obama has not put a halt to all new drilling. After the mysterious oil rig fire, which now has federal swat teams rushing to the sites of all oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico.

The stoppage is indefinite until an adequate review of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is complete. Even then there is no reason to believe Obama will reverse his decision. This may be his way out of pressure to produce American oil.

"All he has said is that he is not going to continue the moratorium on drilling but ... no additional drilling has been authorized and none will until we find out what happened here and whether there was something unique and preventable here," Davis Axelrod said on the Today show this morning.

Suddenly the explosion in the Gulf seems even more convenient for liberal environmental Democrats.