Call Congress Back To Vote On Drilling

IBD Editorials ^ | July 25, 2008

[Kaslin]

Leadership: When it comes to giving relief at the pump by drilling for more oil, this is truly a "do-nothing" Democratic Congress. President Bush should give 'em hell like Harry Truman did.

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Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution states that the president "may, on extraordinary occasions, convene both houses" of Congress. On more than two dozen occasions in our history, presidents have done just that, forcing the Senate and House of Representatives to meet on extraordinary matters of defense or economic peril.

Sixty years ago this month, President Truman called such a special session to shame into action what he labeled a "do nothing" Republican Congress. He dubbed it the Turnip Day Session, because of the day on which it began. According to folklore in Truman's native Missouri, "On the 25th of July, sow your turnips, wet or dry."

Congress refused to do Truman's bidding in the session, but the bold move saved the president's political skin. He defied the odds that November and was re-elected — largely because the public came to view the 80th Congress as in the grip of a cowardly paralysis.

Today's Democratic-controlled 110th Congress is just as paralyzed, but the stakes are far higher. Our irrational dependence on oil from foreign nations is squeezing American consumers and businesses with sky-high fuel prices. And it makes us vulnerable to blackmail by hostile, oil-rich regimes.

[TexasCajun]

I second that motion.

Git Er Done! Drill Now.

[rodguy911]

It's worth calling them back just to shame them one more time for not putting the country first rather than their own left wing ideological beliefs of Marxism uber alles.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

You know there would be kicking and screaming. Call em back to work, W !

[not2worry]

President Bush owes it to the Country to call Congress back to vote on the Drilling Bill. It's his duty as POTUS to protect and defend our Nation. Without oil, we are are the mercy of our enemies.

DRILL NOW!

President Bush, we plead with you to take a LEADERSHIP role as our President and brings these Congressional wimps back to Washington D C to face the music of what the American people deserve!

[TMSuchman]

As much as I would love to chain the congress critters to their desks, most of them have escaped back to their home dist. to crow about what they have done for us poor peasants.[Since we do not know how to take care of ourselves]/sarc!

I would much perfer the TAR & FEATHERS TREATMENT FOR THEM!

[TMSuchman]

As much as I would love to chain the congress critters to their desks, most of them have escaped back to their home dist. to crow about what they have done for us poor peasants.[Since we do not know how to take care of ourselves]/sarc!

I would much perfer the TAR & FEATHERS TREATMENT FOR THEM!

[Diogenesis]

The Democrats and Republicans meet separately to discuss "solutions".

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Call em back make them vote then tar and feather them out on a rail to the edge of Washington

[rodguy911]

Exactly, its a great idea.!!

[rodguy911]

It would not upset me if he went on a rampage about why we need energy security. This is not about just drilling, it's about any and all energy forms!! The rats have blocked everything. He needs to speak up and often.

[stboz]

I want to see Nancy tarred and feathered. Really, really, I do. The whole of liberal America has earned it.

[upchuck]

Great idea! W seems to have grown a pair recently. Maybe he will.

[kittymyrib]

Pelosi said it was an emergency when she wanted to open the strategic oil reserve, so the President should take her word for it and convene the Congress to deal with this critical situation.
It would be great if they couldn’t get back to their districts to lie to the voters, saying they “care”.

[rodguy911]

I've heard the adm. follows FR. Maybe they will get it that the rats are incredibly vulnerable on energy. We just have to put it at the forefront of everything all the time. (not to mention energy security is the right thing for the country duhhhh!!!)YOU can't mention it enough. Rush gets it. Now the rest of us have to follow up.

[Shqipo]

Bush has been a very effective “lame duck.” This stroke of genius would have the Dems quacking in their misery all the more. Just ruining their recess would bring a grin to me.

[rodguy911]

The "Emergency" Reserve, is just that, an emergency reserve and piglossi knows it!!!

They will do anything to see to it that the govt. solves all the peoples' problems.

If we drill, mine, build windmills, nukes, it's private enterprise solving the problems of the nation--free enterprise--captialism.

Free market capitalism is like a stake to the heart, holy water sprayed on the demon rats. They want only socialism/Marxism.

[~Vor~]

"It's worth calling them back just to shame them one more time for not putting the country first rather than their own left wing ideological beliefs of Marxism uber alles."

Just one problem...you can't shame any one of them. They don't know the meaning of the word.

[rodguy911]

Yeah that’s true but much of the country does, and you know how they like to pretend.....

[LiberConservative]

It ain’t gonna happen. All of this is just talk and posturing and election year pandering.