The Washington Post does not believe you are sufficiently nuanced to understand the President's energy policies

Hey, do you remember when we were told that a vote for McCain would be a vote for the continuation of energy policies that were destructive to the environment? Well, they were right.

During the campaign and after his election, President Obama left environmentalists in coal country with the distinct impression that he was going to do away with mountaintop removal mining in the Appalachians. That's where coal companies expose coal seams by stripping the dirt and rock covering them or blasting the tops of mountains to bits with dynamite and then, under legally defined conditions, dump the debris into valleys. It's a particularly destructive practice, but it's legal. And it will remain so under a memorandum of understanding the Obama administration will announce today.

The linked WaPo article provides lame cover by stating that the President never "flat-out" said he would ban strip mining (like how we never "flat-out" said we wouldn’t vote for Obama) while even acknowledging the cynical politics of allowing strip mining to buy votes for the climate-change bill… you know – destroying the environment in order to save it.

We’re curious as to what the Post’s official position is on off-shore drilling, a practice that would seem far less harmful to the environment than strip mining.