From Wednesday night’s Fox News All-Stars.

On the Obama administration’s pushback against the court ruling striking down its moratorium on drilling in the Gulf of Mexico:

I’m surprised the administration is digging itself into this hole a lot deeper. It was just handed an out. First of all, the Gulf states are angry as hell over the moratorium because it’s destroying the one remaining industry, the oil support industry.
Second, Salazar’s own experts that he called in on this have said publicly that they are opposed to a six-month moratorium — actually it endangers safety, because if you cap a well, there’s actually a period of danger, you might as well keep drilling.
And lastly, now they have judicial cover. Now they have a judge [striking down the moratorium]. And they could have walked away.
The fact that Salazar is sticking with this and that they’re going to appeal and they’re going to hang in there on this I think is a measure of how much this administration is in hock to its ecological left.
These people are not going to let him go. They blame the Obama administration for the small opening on drilling, which it did before the Gulf oil disaster, and this is the price that they are exacting. I think it’s a big mistake, not just from an engineering perspective or an economic [perspective], I think it’s a big political mistake. …
The environmental left sees an opportunity here to shut down oil production as Three Mile Island did on nukes, and that’s why it won’t allow more drilling.