Lets get a list of yeas and neas.
We’re going to run the economy on magic pixie dust, don’t ya know?
Good Lord, get out there and SCREAM THIS TO THE SKIES!!!! Send e-mails to everyone you know. The MSM won’t report it at all, but this should make it obvious to EVERYONE who is responsible for gas prices!
Murkowski and Stevens had a Bill to open ANWR to oil leasing when NYMEX crude hit 125. NYMEX crude is near 127.
Gas Prices courtesy of your environ-wacko liberal friends in Congress... Can’t run my chevy on Carabo poop....
And now it’s Bush’s job to go on tv weekly and read the list of congressmen who voted against new drilling. If the Republican party were effective, this would be the PR campaign of the century.
We need to set up a PAC called “Americans for Energy Independence”. I’ll be willing to spend money on that. So they’ll work against Senators who voted no on drilling ANWR.
The Rat bastards did it again!
A motorist buys gasoline at a BP Amoco station in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, Wednesday, April 30, 2008. Oil prices fell Wednesday after the Federal Reserve cut interest rates and a government report said U.S. fuel supplies unexpectedly fell last week. Meanwhile, gas prices, set another record, rising to a national average of nearly $3.62 a gallon. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Why the hell did they not get it done while they held power?????
I find it hard to be surprised by this when the GOP morons couldn’t get it done when they controlled the house, senate and the white house.
Did anyone really expect the dems to be the champions of drilling in ANWR when they came into power?
And how did our nominee vote? Did he stand up for pixie dust?
Libs LOVE high gas prices. :D
Hugh Hewitt had a GREAT saying about “No Drilling, No refining...” It was a great saying but i can’t remember it! :)
The GOP needs to keep hammering away at this relentlessly. It’s an election year issue that’s a big winner.
We're the only country on the face of the earth that put our own natural resources off-limits so we can increase our trade deficit.
This ends the hope of drilling in Alaska for a decade or more. Whomever wins in November they’ve all gone on record as being against drilling.
The caribou can rest easy on their ice, and Santa and his elves will keep on making toys for all the good little girls and boys. Only Santa, since he has those well rested reindeer, won’t have to pay $5 a gallon to drive his red sleigh.
Were the 56 votes for cloture (4 short of 60 needed) or were they against cloture which would mean 18 short of the 60 needed?
once again our do nothing democrats in charge doing nothing to help this country....what happened to all the promises they made to make america stronger and better if they were elected to office...??...shame on you pelosi....
The AP linked is “Senate says halt oil shipments to gov’t reserve” ????????
I wonder what McCain's vote was on this. I bet I can guess.
how about a link that points in the right direction?
42 Democratic Senators just voted for higher gasoline prices.
Naturally. Toilet based Senate.
Maybe, just maybe, you should have considered this when you were in charge Mitch. You are on a fools errand now, but you knew that. Blackbird.
We could get at least a million barrels a day out of ANWR.
At 100 a barrel, that’s 365 BILLION dollars a year into our economy. 365 BILLION dollars that we don’t have to send overseas to pay for oil. 365 BILLION less in trade deficit.
That’s more than the cost of the war for a year.
That’s about the original cost of the prescription drug plan.
That’s a huge amount of money to be passing up.
There’s another million barrels a day to be had in offshore drilling. States who want to drill offshore should be allowed to do so.
Opening up ANWR to oil drilling is in America’s best interests and part of the long term answer to solving our dependency on foreign oil.
Opposing drilling in ANWR -— along with more drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and off the west coast is crazy policy.
We’re being doomed to 3rd world status by these do-nothing creeps who are under the spell of the enviro-wackos and political correctness. Over 50% of members of congress should be unceremoniuosly kicked out for gross incompetence and failing to address the needs of our country.
I highly suspect McCain voted against it seeing how he’s on the record for saying he doesn’t consider Anwar a long term solution to our oil needs, and he also holds Anwar akin to The Grand Canyon. To be untouched and pristine.
I’d lay money down on him being one of the crossover Republicans that voted against it.
God willing, one day we’ll take this country back from the socialist/marxist thieves that run Congress. One day there was a Boston Tea Party.
Defeated energy production in the middle of an energy crisis. They will destroy us. We will destroy us.
This is just the beginning. If Congress is willing to surrender common sense as well as our economy, President Barak Hussein Obama ought to just about finish us off. “Lawd don’cha feel the change.”
Now they should beat the Dems over the head with it!
Time for the pitchforks and torches.
I didn't hear Rush's source of his quote.
Does anyone have the source?
I want to put this on a few dozen blogs.
How and why Illinois puts up with this fool is beyond me.
G**, this pisses me off. The D’rats have been blocking drilling for all 7 of bushes years and the problem isn’t going to fix itself.
Republicans should be screaming in public every day!!
They didn’t get it done while they were in the majority, why think there was a serious hope of this passing now? It was an attempt to score political points, like so many bills. McLame wasn’t smart enough to vote for it, so he shares in any blame.
If this had passed, do you really think it would have resulted in lower oil/gas prices, now or later? But I’ll bet it’s failure will be used as another excuse for prices to go up.
The vast majority on both sides of the aisle are driven by self-interest and preserving the status quo, party affiliation is just a mask.
Gas is $4.00 a gallon, and the Democrats are filibustering against drilling for oil. The Democrats are wholly controlled by environmental groups that lobby in Washington. When the environmentalists get the kick in the tail they’ve earned, we’ll have more energy.
The upside is that this is a Dem Congress. Another negative enhancement to their resume. We need to get them to defeat some more commonsense legislation prior to November.
From the Pelosi news conference of 05-07-08:
‘Drilling is the failed energy policy of yesterday that has brought us
record gas prices today’.
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/05-07-2008/0004808866&EDATE=
the democrat-and-rino-heavy u.s. congress;
scu&bags in action.
(let them eat ethanol; damn scu&bags)
Oh yeah, I'm Cogitator: meanwhile, develop carbon sequestration and atmospheric CO2 extraction technologies.
The problem is that the American people don’t understand economics and oil and never will.
Democrats don’t care how high the price of gas goes. They want people to stop buying it. The rich will be the only ones on the road if they have their way.
Dingell in Michigan recently proposed a .50 increase on each gallon. Why would he do that?? For exactly that reason.
THEY DO NOT CARE. ITS WHAT LIBERALS WANT.
Senate says halt oil reserve shipments
Lynch mob is comin’ when it hits $10 per. Where will the weenies be hiding out ?