The Democrats and Drilling

Wall Street Journal editorial telling it like it is.

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.

Pelosi Says Bush is a Total Failure

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.

More Hypocrisy Regarding McCain’s Military Service

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.

 

Comrade Pelosi Doesn’t Care for Free Speech

It seems that Speaker of the House Pelosi is not too keen on free speech, she supports bringing back the “Fairness Doctrine.” Stalinists love to disguise their schemes that lead us further down the path towards tyranny with innocuous sounding names like this. Afterall, who isn’t for “fairness?”

From here:

The speaker of the House made it clear to me and more than forty of my colleagues yesterday that a bill by Rep. Mike Pence (R.-Ind.) to outlaw the “Fairness Doctrine” (which a liberal administration could use to silence Rush Limbaugh, other radio talk show hosts and much of the new alternative media) would not see the light of day in Congress during ’08.  In ruling out a vote on Pence’s proposed Broadcaster’s Freedom Act, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D.-CA.) also signaled her strong support for revival of the “Fairness Doctrine” — which would require radio station owners to provide equal time to radio commentary when it is requested.

and

At a breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor yesterday, I asked Pelosi if Pence failed to get the required signatures on a discharge petition to get his anti-Fairness Doctrine bill out of committee, would she permit the Pence measure to get a floor vote this year.

“No,” the Speaker replied, without hesitation.  She added that “the interest in my caucus is the reverse” and that New York Democratic Rep. “Louise Slaughter has been active behind this [revival of the Fairness Doctrine] for a while now.”

and

“Do you personally support revival of the ‘Fairness Doctrine?’” I asked.

“Yes,” the speaker replied, without hesitation

I wonder what Pelosi and the other leftists in charge of the asylum plan to do about ”fairness” on the internet.