Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and other liberal leaders on Capitol Hill are gripped by cold-sweat terror. If they permit a vote on offshore drilling, they know they will lose when Blue Dogs and oil-patch Democrats defect to the GOP position of increasing domestic energy production. So the last failsafe is to shut down Congress.
Majority Leader Reid has decided that deliberation is too taxing for “the world’s greatest deliberative body.” This week he cut off serious energy amendments to his antispeculation bill. Then Senate Appropriations baron Robert Byrd abruptly canceled a bill markup planned for today where Republicans intended to press the issue. Mr. Byrd’s counterpart in the House, David Obey, is enforcing a similar lockdown. Speaker Pelosi says she won’t allow even a debate before Congress’s August recess begins in eight days.
She and Mr. Reid are cornered by substance. The upward pressure on oil prices is caused by rising world-wide consumption and limited growth in supplies. Yet at least 65% of America’s undiscovered, recoverable oil, and 40% of its natural gas, is hostage to the Congressional drilling moratorium.
The Democratic leadership is trying to smother any awareness of their responsibility for high prices. They are also trying to quash a revolt among Democrats who realize that the country is still dependent on fossil fuels, no matter how loudly quasimystical environmentalists like Al Gore claim otherwise.
Yes, this sums it up nicely, I think. And luckily for the Dems, our media, also known as Pravda, won’t make it clear for the American people.
According to Nancy, President Bush is a total failure. That may well be, but you talk about the pot calling the kettle black…
That’s an old graphic, gas prices are higher than that now. And doesn’t Congress currently have a 9% approval rating, Nan?
Pelosi is against drilling in ANWR, and against offshore drilling. You keep going with that Nancy and see where you and your fellow Marxists who have taken over the Democrat party end up. I’m not a big George Bush fan, but honestly, this woman maybe the worst Speaker of the House ever.
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Tony Snow just died and in an utter display of classlessness, the AP can’t seem to resist getting ugly.
With a quick-from-the-lip repartee, broadcaster’s good looks and a relentlessly bright outlook — if not always a command of the facts — he became a popular figure around the country to the delight of his White House bosses.
and this…
Critics suggested that Snow was turning the traditionally informational daily briefing into a personality-driven media event short on facts and long on confrontation. He was the first press secretary, by his own accounting, to travel the country raising money for Republican candidates.
Men everywhere can sympathize…Diamondbacks catcher Chris Snyder got hit by a pitch in the groin (video below) and fractured a testicle. He is on the 15-day disabled list, although it seems to me it should take a lot longer than 15 days to recover from a fastball to the jewels.
So Jim Webb says McCain should calm down on using military service? Blatant hypocrisy, I say. Webb uses his military background every chance he gets. He sure didn’t have any problem using it when he ran against George Allen.
Between Wes Clark’s unfortunate comments, and now this from Webb, I’m starting to think the Dem’s are getting worried about running against a real war hero. No offense, Senator Kerry.
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