Pelosi to address nation on gas prices

The Hill ^ | 8/15/08 | Mike Soraghan

[DallasBiff]

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is hitting back directly at President Bush and congressional Republicans on energy and gas prices.

Pelosi (D-Calif.) will deliver the Democrats’ weekly radio address, which is a response to the president’s weekly address to the country. She will take aim at Republican energy policies, highlighting Bush's and Vice President Cheney’s background in the oil industry, and lay out the Democrats’ latest plan for energy independence and addressing high gasoline prices.

“America faces a choice: a continuation of the Bush-Cheney-McCain approach that perpetuates the failed policies that have produced soaring prices,” Pelosi will say, according to a partial transcript of her remarks released Friday, “or a comprehensive, bipartisan strategy that develops new and traditional sources of energy.”

[DallasBiff]

Nine percent Nancy, the definition of insanity of doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

[vietvet67]

Good.

Maybe she’ll give us an update on her book sales.. ha

[personalaccts]

do people actually listen to the weekly address?

[IbJensen]

Crazy Nazi in a skirt. (Or pants suit)

[henkster]

Does anyone listen to these radio addresses?

[The South Texan]

“.......highlighting Bush’s and Vice President Cheney’s background in the oil industry”

Again??? The American Sheeple should know that by now. That’s all we’ve heard since 1999 from Mrs Botox and her ilk.

[avacado]

"Pelosi (D-Calif.) will deliver the Democrats’ weekly radio address..."

And who will actually listen to her radio address?

[Red Badger]

She will take aim at Republican energy policies, highlighting Bush's and Vice President Cheney’s background in the oil industry,

As opposed to her massive experience in what, exactly, and her numerous successes in developing energy resources?............

[avacado]

Dang! At post #7 I asked the same thing.

[pallis]

Does she put on makeup while she talks? Does she blink? These are the kinds of things Nancy should tell us. Things she might know something about.

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

Blah, blah, we can’t drill our way out of this problem, blah, blah.

[GSWarrior]

Will the repub response highlight her connections with the wind power industry?

[Dr. Ursus]

She has a face for radio!

[linn37]

9% do ...tee hee

We could call her ol 9% Nancy.

[right wing]

And I hope she continues repeating ad nauseum that SHE IS TRYING TO SAVE THE PLANET!

[palomonte]

she’s definitely got a radio face.

[Tex Pete]

America: “We need to drill for more oil to be able to become energy independent and lower gas prices.”

Pelosi: “George Bush and Dick Cheney have ties to oil companies.”

America: “We know there is oil in ANWR. Let’s drill for it.”

Pelosi: “George Bush and Dick Cheney have ties to oil companies.”

[sappy]

Address Americans with an up or down vote, Nancy.

Failed Speaker of the Failed Congress.

Zero Accomplishments. Year 3.

[the_devils_advocate_666]

Probably the same 200 people that bought her book.

[onlylewis]

Hey stupid, ye you Nancy, I believe the failed policies go all the way back to Jimmy (peanutman) Carter and beyond. Our society depends on oil. That's the way it is. You guys, dems and repubs have allowed the environmentalist to control your votes on energy and now you say it's not your fault.
I have an idea for you, why don't you all get together decide when, where and how you will begin to drill, refine and produce more gas/diesel products. Then after that is underway begin to talk about future sources of energy.
We need the oil and the middle class can not afford to fight you guys on taxes and the oil prices. Simply put we are not willing to wait on your so-called alternative energy.

In short,Drill here, Drill now and begin to build new refineries first. Use what is proven and available.Then look at alternatives.

[happinesswithoutpeace]

Nah they just read about it later or hear clips on the news.

[Army Air Corps]

Will she discuss her windpower investments?

[snowrip]

Maybe she’s right; Maybe it’s time to try her approach.

That way, we could all quash public dissent by trying to control media access to the government, as a means of driving up the price of oil and artificially inflating the value of the investments we’ve made in T. Boone Pickens’ alternative energy scam. After all, attempting to bouy the sinking stock price of a company through political assasination and media manipulation (as well as through that company’s reliance on ten billion dollars worth of public funding which Nancy controls) isn’t a dirty political scheme if we all do it, right?

We could all be millionaires like Nancy, and we’d have so much money from our crooked investments we could buy all the gas we needed. Screw the American public! Who needs those unwashed peasants, anyway?

/s

[jsh3180]

Will Nancy tell the nation in her speech about her investment in T. Bone Pickens Clean Energy Fuels (CLNE) initial public offering?

[vietvet67]

Only if I hear a clip on tv.

[Red Badger]

I wonder if she’s gonna be stupid enough to push “wind power” in her address?...........That will be a hoot!..........

[Night Hides Not]

do people actually listen to the weekly address?

About the same number of folks that watch PMSNBC/Olberman.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

The wind power industry will soon experience major blowback.

[OCCASparky]

Uh, Nancy? That ship sailed right about the time you gaveled the House on a five-week vacation and turned out the lights. On YOUR watch, gas prices rose from just under $2.50 a gallon to over $4.10 a gallon. In your district, prices for regular unleaded still hover around the $4.50 mark.

And yet you want to blame it on someone like Bush who can sign no laws, make no policies unless YOU pass them along first? My dear, look up the word "chutzpah". See that picture? Yeah, the plastic one with the deer in the headlights look. That would be you. Or to quote a certain Baldwin brother in Backdraft, "You see that little flicker in the corner of your eye? That's your career dissapation line--and it just kicked into high gear."

[Political Junkie Too]

Maybe Pelosi should get little Graeme Frost to deliver the radio address, telling of how high gasoline prices is affecting his family's ability to run their three SUV's, forcing them to forego health care for him after his accident.

-PJ

[Red Badger]

Dear Speaker Nancy,

American’s cars do not run on wind energy.

American’s cars do not run on solar energy.

American’s cars do not run on hydroelectric energy.

American’s cars do not run on batteries.

American’s cars do not run on Hydrogen.

American’s cars do not run on Fuel cells.

American’s cars do not run on Biofuels.

American’s cars do not run on hope, dreams, change or faith.

American’s cars do not run on OIL, MADAM SPEAKER! THEY RUN ON OIL RIGHT NOW, RIGHT HERE, AND RIGHT AWAY! AND THE OLNY WAY TO GET THAT OIL IS TO DRILL FOR IT AND GET IT PUMPED OUT OF THE GROUND!!!!!!!!!!!!!.........

[Vigilanteman]

. . . highlighting Bush's and Vice President Cheney’s background in the oil industry . . .

So the argument will be that because Bush & Cheney have experience in the oil industry, they are causing the shortage? Isn't this sort of like Robert Mugabe blaming white farmers for turning Zimbabwe from the breadbasket of Africa into the basket case of Africa?

[Spok]

Last I heard was that since oil is going down she’s going to flip flop (again) on offshore drilling, opposing it once more. BTW - has anyone bothered to tell her there’s a crisis with Russia?

[Vigilanteman]

For the record, the retail price of unleaded gasoline was $2.15 per gallon on election day 2006 here in the Pittsburgh area. And we’re always at or close to the national average.

[DustyMoment]

If the ‘Pubbies want to regain the trust and support of their base, they should be shining a huge, gigantic searchlight on this fire and making sure that the voters know who is responsible for the current gas price situation. Pelosi can/will bash Bush and the ‘Pubbies all she wants but, at the end of the day, the facts and the records support the fact that it is the DEMS who have stonewalled any drilling activity.

Failure to spread that message everywhere should be the final nail in the GOP’s coffin.

[Tarpon]

One of the undeniable truths of life — Communists, Fascists, Marxists and Democrats lie.

[MEGoody]

I’m sure as many people will watch Nancy’s ‘address’ as have bought her book.

[Niteranger68]

But it won't come off as arrogant or condescending. Nooo...not at all.

[Chode]

gas is now under $4.00 here at even the most expensive stations.

[RexBeach]

Fewer people will hear that radio address than have bought her book!

Go, Grandma Meme!

[TonyInOhio]

Dear Nan,

[Kerretarded]

do people actually listen to the weekly address?

Maybe THE PEOPLE should deliver a WEEKLY RESPONSE! I am getting incredibly sick and tired of Pelosi taking the position that this OUR response is nothing more than BIG OIL making the Republicans conduct this "stunt", this "hoax"!

[WOBBLY BOB]

Unfortunately, I think what will happen is Pelosi will allow a vote and the pubbies will vote on a crappy bill full of pork for wind, ethanol , french fry grease and God knows what else in the spirit of bipartisanship , ‘reaching across the aisle’, and all that BS.

[A. Morgan]

[McGruff]

What's a “Democrats’ weekly radio address”?

[elder5]

Well its about time.

“Democrats have a plan to lower gas prices…” – Then-Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Press Release,
April 19, 2006

[dblshot]

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, did it make a sound?

[griswold3]

If the current administration has so much power and influence because of their ‘oil connections’, why would their friends ‘betray’ them like this?

(Ouch, that hurt. I tried liberal logic and it hurts. I can’t think like a liberal for very long. Bad things happen.)

[FlyVet]

Considering that my city's library bought 14 copies (none on hold, which means less than 14 people in a big city are interested in it), it looks like almost all the sales were due to purchase by library systems.

A truly pathetic performance.

[longtermmemmory]

In other words nobody showed to the Pelosi press conference.

Seems the republican rebellion is WORKING.

Now with the threat of clossing the government over Drill here and Drill now, pelosi is losing again. (will sheehan beat her too?)

Russia’s oil pipeline intervention has added more gravitas to the drill now drumbeat.