Texas Sues Obama Over Offshore Drilling Ban

The rapid break-up of the Gulf Oil Spill should have been a sign to the Obama administration that continuing the offshore drilling ban was a bad idea.  However, they preferred not to learn anything from the experience, so Texas is acting on their own to remedy the situation:

The Texas attorney general sued the Obama administration Wendesday over its new deep-water offshore drilling moratorium, claiming it is unjustified and federal officials did not contact the state before issuing the ban.

Attorney General Greg Abbott filed the 18-page suit in federal court in Houston against Department of the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. The ban halted the approval of any new permits for deep-water projects and shut down drilling at 33 exploratory ocean wells in the wake of the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

In his lawsuit, Abbott called the ban "an unjustified, arbitrary and capricious policy that will inflict harm upon coastal communities."

Challenges to Obama will start coming fast and furious. The same day Texas filed their suit Florida announced plans for a new immigration law that promises to be tougher than Arizona's law. This could make for some interesting times for Obama, because if this law passes you have to wonder if he'll be willing to sue Florida like he did Arizona. Arizona was not going to vote for him in 2012 no matter what, but he really needs to win Florida to win another term in office. Is he willing to take on a state he needs so badly? We'll see.