As usual, your facts are wrong. McCain is opposed to drilling in ANWR. He supports more offshore/shelf drilling.
The point of this post was not Republican=good, Democrat=bad. The point was to demonstrate that expanding a bad program like ethanol subsidies is a knee-jerk reaction from the left that is at least as bad as any accusations of the same directed at the right. I can think of several times where "do-gooders" (typically, the left) got it dead wrong: Margarine. Requiring toxic flame retardants in children's clothing. Requiring the additive MTBE in gasoline. Etc. Etc. Sometimes they're just simple meddlers: Bicycle helmets, cell phone restrictions, seatbelt laws for adults. That's not to say they don't get it right sometimes: Airbags/seatbelts as standard equipment, certain labor and wage laws, certain enviro regs that are not exclusively social in nature, etc. That's all this thread was about--but lefties in particular seem hell-bent on preserving their orthodoxy and tagging the simplest dissent as blasphemy. Amazing.
Margarine: Lifeblood of the Workers!