Shit: Senate Votes for ANWR Drilling

Feck.

The Senate, by a 51-49 vote, rejected an attempt by Democrats and GOP moderates to remove a refuge drilling provision from next year's budget, preventing opponents from using a filibuster -- a tactic that has blocked repeated past attempts to open the Alaska refuge to oil companies.

Lorax has reason to maintain some hope, however.

So much for so-called conservatism.