They were elected on the promise, even saying it in speeches, they will do the will of the people but quickly began dictating instead of listening.

What did Barbara Boxer say: Elections have consequences.

Well, America is paying for that election thru higher everything.

WSJ poll: It’s the energy, stupid — er, Pelosi

The DemOrats are clueless, and don’t know diddle shiite. Nancy Pelosi ranted about it’s going to take a woman to clean the house. Well guess what Nancy, your house cleaning es no por ca-ca, and instead, a smelly, corrupt, stinking pigsty.

Right now the Democrats have become so frightened of this debate that they have attempted to ram through appropriations bills without debate or amendment to keep Republicans from forcing the issue to the floor. As a result, both chambers may wind up adjourning without passing anything — appropriations or energy policy. It would be the first time in almost 60 years that Congress went into its summer break without having passed any of the appropriations bills necessary for the next fiscal year.

If they do adjourn without passing the appropriations bills, and the new fiscal year starts October 1, there could be a showdown on a Government shutdown if the Senate Republicans filibuster everything unless offshore drilling is authorized. I’m not sure whether they have the stomach to do that, but it might work IF the entire party is united to make this THE wedge issue of the campaign, and EXPLAIN to the voters that drilling is the only way to bring down oil prices, both in the short term and long term. Long term (2-5 years), when the oil actually comes out of the ground, but also short term, because the same speculators that bid up the price on the anticipation of supply shortages will dump oil contracts in anticipation of increased supply, and try to make money elsewhere. This could be tricky to explain to the average voter who doesn’t understand commodity trading as well as Hillary Clinton, so a massive, clearly expressed campaign is needed.

The campaign needs to also stress that the effects of high oil prices go beyond the price of filling up their cars or heating their homes. High diesel prices also increase the cost of trucking products to market, which causes the price of everything else to go up, including food. More Drilling = Cheaper Oil = Cheaper everything else, and more American jobs.

The GOP and John McCain have already begun hammering Barack Obama on his refusal to countenance increased oil production in the US. They will flood the airwaves to remind voters which party has blocked consideration of the option favored by 70% of the electorate.

I certainly hope so. But they also need to explain that, although 41+ Senators can force some issues as a minority, one woman (Pelosi) can block everything if the Democrats have a House majority, even if some Democrats favor offshore drilling. If a voter wants offshore drilling, he/she MUST vote Republican, regardless of other issues, EVEN if the Democrat candidate in the district favors drilling, because that Representative doesn’t decide–it’s either Pelosi or Boehner. If Pelosi doesn’t cave before the election, this could be the Republican Party’s way to take back the House.

Then she and the Dems can scream and holler about how Bush failed?

Just what the President DID do (repealing the EO) helped drop the price of oil over $20 in the past two weeks. Imagine what would happen if CONGRESS did the same?

Pelosi is a putz.

Is she saying Congress is powerless and being held hostage by the executive branch?

She holds the Speaker of the House position, together with her counterpart in the Senate (and she doesn’t even have to fight Reid for the same position), they are the LEADERS of the legislative branch. Yet they couldn’t DO anything.

Maybe Pelosi should be filming the commercial

“Help! I am falling. I couldn’t get up.”

Considering the implications of having an oil well in my back yard, I’ll take it.

Immolate on July 25, 2008 at 10:13 AM

Me too. Worked out very well for Jed Clampett didn’t it? Move to Beverly!

“What the president would like to do is to have validation for his failed policy,”

What she means:

“What the president would like is to enact a policy that could be successful in reducing energy costs – we cannot have that while he is in office.”

Anybody who does not see what Pelosi, Reid, et al are doing is blind. Or blinded by the light – from Obama’s halo.

Forgot that last /quote tag!

“What the president would like to do is to have validation for his failed policy,”

What she means:

“What the president would like is to enact a policy that could be successful in reducing energy costs – we cannot have that while he is in office.”

Anybody who does not see what Pelosi, Reid, et al are doing is blind. Or blinded by the light – from Obama’s halo.

She’s scared it will ruin the views from her seaside home.

You can only see 8 miles out to sea…8 miles. At 30 feet on a cliff you can see 25 miles, maybe. Their argument is flat wrong.
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I say we fire them all and just vote on everything ourselves. Save half a trillion dollars a year probably.

Unless one polls in San Fransisco or Cambridge, Mass. All the libs up here are hoping mad at the dems in congress, and that puts a smile on my face…

Aggie85 on July 25, 2008 at 10:30 AM

very true.

before she was speaker of the house

Cowering is not leadership.

She should remember to cower with her legs, and not with her back.

these polls that favor the democrats say more about the lack of intelligence of the responders than the positions of the party.

right4life on July 25, 2008 at 9:16 AM

fixed it for ya