Posted on 05/13/2008 8:57:15 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON - The Senate has rejected a Republican energy plan that calls for opening an Alaska wildlife refuge and some offshore waters to oil development. Supporters of the measure couldn't get the needed 60 votes to overcome a Democratic-led filibuster threat.
Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said more domestic oil production is needed to keep prices in check and to reduce U.S. dependence on oil imports.
Opponents said areas such as the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and coastal waters that have been off limits to drilling for 25 years ought to remain that out of bounds to oil companies. The GOP measure, defeated Tuesday by a vote of 56-42, would have allowed coastal states to get a waiver to the offshore drilling ban.
You know that sinking feeling you sometimes get when you see the ugly truth that you've been fending off and don't want to acknowledge?
I just had that feeling.
A possiblle President elect make a stand? HELL NO!!! Unless of course it's to bring down your own country.
“Senate rejects GOP oil drilling plan (defeated Tuesday by a vote of 56-42)”
That is 56 people that need to be FIRED!
Been doing such since the rats took congress !!
What did the rats use as their excuse why THEY thought this was a bad bill ?
Make em tell why is what we need too do !
“Wonder how our beloved presidential nominee voted?”
Yes, I just wonder how McGore voted. Probably with his bestest buddies in the Senate. If he even had the ba!!s to show up.
To make FALCON and the American Independent Party work, resources will need to be pooled. Have any contacts between the two nascent organizations been made, maybe about a possible merger of the two?
For the next 6 to nine months, we will be collecting names of volunteers and allies. We have been contacted by the Patriot Party already, and will certainly reach out to others that are forming as we speak. By next year, we should have a good idea who is organizing the best, who is still in the game, and how to come up with a strategy to pool our talents.
Man, I wish he was the nominee instead of that sick, bitter old RINO we're now stuck with.
I’m still planning on contacting Mr. Hunter. He will be unemployed next year.
Tommie Franks for Senator!
I guess McQueeg was too busy preaching about global warming to be bothered to go to DC to vote. What a turd.
Your right, McCain is probably cheering for what happened. He is right with the Dems on this.
McCainiacs: Your Fearless Leader Sat This One Out.....
My my, doesn’t matter whether this man speaks or not. He proves himself to be a lib no matter what he does!
The truth cannot be hidden. It ALWAYS rears it’s beautiful head.
The McCain platform: High energy costs and lots and lots of illegal immigrants. He says he’s tough on security but he condones a slow-motion invasion across our borders.
We can only hope that McCain selects a real conservative as his VP. After all McCain is getting real old and his likelihood of not making it through a full term, much less a second, is pretty good. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t wish him dead, just that when he does pass he does not screw his party one last time by leaving another RHINO to be president.
The price of gas does not effect these guys. I don’t think anything will happen until about ten or so million of us march on Washington and shut it down. If they are not going to pass anything to help out the country than it would be better to let them do nothing at all.
Sad but true. The only bit they care is to the extent that people affected vote. They don't want to really fix the problem, but want to make us think they are fixing it. So goes with the BS today about the SPR cutoff. So now that won't even help a bit. There are only two ways out of this:
1) Drill domestically and build new refineries.
2) Negotiate a supply increase with Mexico to break the OPEC cartel. They owe us for taking their riff-raff into our country for so many years.
I want them to drill in the Colorado/Wyoming/Utah area. Much, much more oil than Alaska.
But as you said, the more I hear about John McCain, the less I want to vote for him. Every time I try to 'warm' to him--he says something that turns me off.
This will be the first election ever--that I will not vote Republican.
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