With all types of Republicans, including Sens. Tom Coburn (Okla.), Ted Stevens (Alaska) and John McCain (Ariz.), supporting offshore drilling, GOP senators should stage an “old-fashioned filibuster” to pressure Democrats, writes Rob Bluey. With Barack Obama opposing more drilling yet putting forth no proposals of his own to increase the domestic energy supply, Pejman Yousefzadeh finds it impossible to take Obama’s argument seriously that lifting the offshore drilling ban would benefit only oil companies.