Posted on 07/22/2008 8:21:24 AM PDT by slickeroo
America held hostage – by Nancy Pelosi
Posted: July 22, 2008
By Humberto Fontova
No sooner did President Bush lift the executive ban on oil exploration in the outer Continental Shelf than Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi put the kibosh to its prospects.
"The only thing standing between the American people and these vast oil resources is action from the U.S. Congress," said President Bush last week.
"The president of the United States, with gas at $4 a gallon because of his failed energy policies, is now trying to say that is because I couldn't drill offshore," quickly countered the speaker. "That is not the cause, and I am not going to let him get away with it."
A recent CNN (no less!) poll showed more than 73 percent of Americans in favor of offshore drilling. But the House speaker can keep the issue from even reaching a vote, and Ms Pelosi seems heck-bent on just that.
"(In California) we learned the hard way that oil and water do not mix on our coast," she said back in 1996. Ms Pelosi was referring, of course, to the famous Santa Barbara oil spill of 1969, an event that serves as the Alamo of the anti-drilling cause.
Webster's defines a "provincial" as: "a person of local or restricted interests or outlook," not a term the media uses for a San Franciscan millionaire feminist legislator who owns vineyards and a French-monikered resort.
Then what else to call Nancy Pelosi (and most of her wealthy constituents)?
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Another extraordinary example of Grandma Meme’s hair brain.
Good Lord, she is a simpleton.
Why the hell wont the GOP listen to its constituents?????
Queen Nancy, is following in Marie Antoinette’s footsteps in her total indifference to Americans plight of high energy costs. She is oblivious as she resides in her Neo-Versailles called Capitol Hill.
Remember the big snake in “Jungle Book”? Everytime I hear Sen Reid sssssspeaking ———
This issue may lead to a gop sweep this fall. I can’t believe I’m saying this, but this is the one issue that can turn what would appear to be a democrat year into a disaster for them. I looked at all the rcp averages today, and of course obama has leades in most key states. That is on paper. In reality his poll numbers are inflated. Right now the race is a dead heat. And as the oil issue continues to dominate our society, his poll numbers will plummet. Thank you Nancy and Harry for the biggest political blunder of all-time.
The oil belongs to the people of the United States, not Pelosi. She wants the tax money that California gets on every gallon. Prices go down, so does the tax revenue.
Millionaire? A person worth one million dollars is a millionaire (by original definition). It does not take that much to be a "millionaire" in California and many other areas if one factors in 401k assets and property values.
The Pelosi's are worth over 100 Million. Simply terming her as a "millionaire" downplays the fact that she is an extremely rich ultra liberal elitist.
Thanks again, 2006 “protest voters.”
Yup. My thoughts too.
ROFL!
DRILL HERE - DRILL NOW - VOTE DEMOCRAT would work on that pic as well! LOL!
But the gop must start to do something with the issue b4 it’s too late!
You’re 100% correct.
Nothing can be done until there is a vote
Contact Pelosi and demand a vote
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