Posted on 08/08/2008 6:11:11 AM PDT by Invisigoth
Well, no sooner did I write a column envisioning it than we almost had the real thing.
Last Friday, about 40 House Republicans staged a spontaneous protest on the floor of the chamber, when Speaker Nancy “Nine Percent Approval Rating” Pelosi forcibly adjourned the House for a five-week vacation to avoid taking any vote on domestic energy drilling – precisely because she would lose it.
Pelosi was caught between a political rock and a hard place: Allow the vote, watch a good number of Democrats defect so as to protect themselves in an election year, and see the enviro-wacko lobby turn against the party. Or block the vote when gas prices are at $4 a gallon entering the home stretch of an election, drive that approval rating into negative numbers, and more importantly, hurt the country for the sake of appeasing a far-left interest group that's part of the Democratic base.
And I'll give Nine Percent Nancy credit for consistency. Just as she did with the Columbian Free Trade Agreement (illegally sandbagging it to appease Big Labor), she cheated to rig the outcome so as to please the green lobby, putting selfish political interests ahead of what was best for the nation. And she did so with a ruthlessness and petty vindictiveness that doesn't befit the office she holds, and should make us all uneasy.
Two hundred eighteen Democrats followed her dictatorial marching orders and voted to adjourn earlier than planned so as to avoid the uncomfortable drilling vote, walking out while GOP members were still speaking on the floor, and when these members refused to leave, she shut off the lights and the public address system, ordered the visitor and press galleries cleared, and forced C-SPAN's TV camera to be turned off.
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“Nine Percent Nancy ...” LOL!
‘Rats - the Anti-American Party.
It’s good to see the thumbscrews being applied to a prominent Democrat for once. I’m enjoying being able to view the application.
40 out of 435. A tempest in a tea pot.
Going into it's 6th day.
History Occurs! The "Establishment Media" HIDES! (Live Thread VI)
Keep supporting our congress heros!!
We need a vote
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We need emergency session
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John Boehner invited McCain to join them
McCain needs to get his a$$ to Washington where he belongs
It will bring the much needed media attention
http://www.johnmccain.com/Contact/
Great Article!
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