Hate to tell you, but Bush & Cheney havent been in office since 2008. Its 2010. Obama could just as easily told them "No, you cant drill now" just like he could've pulled troops out of Iraq but decided to add more instead.
"Hate to tell you, but Bush & Cheney havent been in office since 2008." Facts don't matter to you, do they... ...as evidence by your getting the facts wrong on Bush and Cheney. Both were in office in 2009... http://mediamatters.org/research/201004300053 This is the true story: http://climateprogress.org/2010/06/02/bp-oil-disaster-is-cheney’s-katrina/