Posted on 08/05/2008 12:06:28 PM PDT by bs9021
Oily Congress
by: Rachel Paulk, August 05, 2008
Following the U.S. House of Representative’s largely partisan vote for adjournment Friday, Republican Congressmen remained on the floor all day in a response to Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s refusal to vote on the “American Energy Act”—a bill addressing the energy crisis facing Americans today.
Republican congressmen are now staging sit-ins reminiscent of the hippy protests of Vietnam—except instead of flower children holding “make love, not war” signs, these weathered politicians have gathered to rail against the Democrats’ refusal to address the energy crisis.
Both the minority leader John Boehnor (R-OH) and party Whip Roy Blunt (R-MO) attended the protest Friday as an official GOP endorsement, and the Republican Congressmen on the floor vow to protest until a vote is called, regardless of the Democrats’ vacation time.
To date for the year 2008, over 100 bills have been introduced to the House and about 50 to the Senate from both the Democratic representatives and the Republican representatives addressing the energy crisis. The solutions to America’s oil problem that these bills and acts carry are strictly divided among partisan lines. Republicans push to increase supply by building new refineries and drilling for oil in America, while most Democrats seek to decrease demand by completely committing to alternative energy sources and increasing public transportation.
As a result of this divide, Speaker Pelosi has not allowed votes on any of the energy bills. Michele Bachmann(R-MN) stated that “The Democrats control the house and the Democrats control the senate—and they haven’t indicated that they’re going to move off of the global warming dime.” House Leader Nancy Pelosi’s comments to Politico.com—“I’m trying to save the planet; I’m trying to save the planet.”—only support Bachmann’s assertion....
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“Many of the proposals we have asked you and your Democrat majority to allow us to vote on are bipartisan proposals that we believe would enjoy the support of a majority of the Members of the Congress. Yet because you and your Democrat Leadership personally oppose these proposals, you are not allowing them to come up for a vote.”
The last governmental impediment to drilling is a Congressional drilling ban, as President Bush lifted the executive ban on offshore drilling that had been in place for about a quarter century. The Congressional ban on offshore drilling is set to expire on October 1 of this year, unless Congress votes to extend the ban.
Maybe Queen Nancy will not allow ANY legislation through, so we still win the OCS battle if she continues to play dictator.
Sounds like a win-win; we win if she does, we win if she doesn’t!
I like the flower-power flashback. How about sixties-style protest songs? Here’s mine:
All you are saying, is ‘five bucks for gas’
Everybody sit around do nothing, nothing
Go to your vacations in the hamptons hamptons
All you are saying, is ‘five bucks for gas’
Nancy is braying, ‘pay five bucks for gas’
Posted on Tuesday, August 05, 2008 10:31:25 AM by Mister Ghost
Wearing headbands is the easiest way to obtain a hippie chic look. Many celebs from Elle Macpherson to Mischa Barton, Ashley Simpson, and Nicole Richie have been spotted wearing this instant style piece.
How many times can a congressman turn his head
And curse my tired old SUV
Yes’n how many hybrids can a used car salesman sell
Before he finds one priced for me?
The answer my friend is let’s inflate our tires
The answer is let’s inflate our tires
How many years can some people exist
Before they’re sent home from DC?
Yes’n how many drills can an ANWR prairie fit
That drill oil directionally?
The answer my friend is harnessing the wind
The answer is harnessing the wind (except near Kennedy)
A Kennedy wind farm, that's answer!
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