WonkLine: March 31, 2010

Posted by Wonk Room Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:55:00 GMT

From the Wonk Room.

President Barack Obama will announce today his plan to open “vast expanses of water along the Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the north coast of Alaska to oil and natural gas drilling” for the first time, but New Gingrich’s American Solutions for Winning the Future says it is just an “attempt by Obama to seduce the public” with window dressing.

President Obama yesterday declared a state of emergency as record levels of rainfall cause “100-year floods” in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Long Island.

U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) said Tuesday that he does not believe a climate change bill will see the light of day in 2010. “You can’t do things too quickly, particularly something that is as big as climate change.”