I just saw this come through the ol' aggregator and it almost knocked me right out of my chair:  Chris Saxman to introduce off-shore drilling bill.  They want to use offshore drilling revenues to fund the Virginia transportation budget.  BWAHAHA.  That's the Republican solution to the bone-jarring, pothole-filled roads I have to drive over every day??

(Warning:  Potholes and the complete lack of progress by the Virginia General Assembly in fixing the roads, largely due to Republican stubbornness, greatly annoys me.)

I can see the Republican strategy session now:  "Check this out guys!  First we'll refuse to compromise and block every effort by the Democrats to do anything meaningful, then we'll stall until the next gas "crisis" (ha ha!) has everyone scared that they won't be able to afford cable TV and cell phone service anymore, then, after the sensationalist media has whipped everyone into just the right level of frenzied panic with their constant "pain at the pump" stories, we'll slip in all these offshore drilling bills the oil companies wrote for us, and we'll get all kinds of corporate donations and headlines for saving the day!  We'll be heroes!  And rich!  What's that?  Oh, the roads?  Yeah I guess maybe in 5-10 years we might start getting a little extra revenue to work on the roads or something, but we'll probably be out of office by then so somebody else will have to worry about that."

Yeah, whatever.  If I may be permitted to paraphrase... PAVE HERE.  PAVE NOW.  CRASH LESS.

P.S. And while you're at it, build more nuclear plants so we can all drive sporty electric cars to the beach to look at the new oil rigs.