It’s on: House GOP’s oil protest to resume tomorrow

Hot Air ^ | 8/3/08 | Allahpundit

[Dawnsblood]

Said the boss this morning, “Seems to me House Republicans should be holding a public event every day in Washington from now until the end of the Democrats’ vacation to call attention to Nancy’s anti-drilling intransigence and her refusal to hold votes on the issue.” From her lips to the leadership’s ear. Just across from Boehner’s office:

Washington, Aug 3 - House Republicans will be back on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives again Monday to continue the unprecedented protest that began last Friday, when dozens of Republicans joined hundreds of American citizens on the House floor to protest Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) decision to send Congress home for the rest of the summer without a vote on legislation to lower gas prices and move America toward energy independence.

In an urgent memo sent to GOP Members and staff Saturday (“A Call to Action on American Energy”), Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) and Whip Roy Blunt (R-MO) hailed Friday’s action, which was led by Reps. Mike Pence (R-IN), Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA), Tom Price (R-GA), and others, and encouraged House Republicans to return to the Capitol beginning Monday morning to help keep the historic effort going.

[penelopesire]

“What better way for the Dems to steal the spotlight from tomorrow’s Republican showdown than for Barry to name his VP. Dig?”

You might be on to something here. Can’t wait for Hussein to go on vacation though! So sick of seeing him and watching the press fawn all over him.

Wonder if we will be treated to more bare chest pictorials of Obama on the beach by the Drive By Media? (eye roll)

[magooey]

Even better would be hand-cranked LED lanterns

I can just see them running around the streets of DC looking for an honest man.

[rdl6989]

That’s “post of the year” material right there.

[Miss Didi]

Dig? Whatever.

Be that as it may, there was a groundswell against illegal amnesty that snowballed and this can too. People are losing it financially and they've had enough.

Don't quite get your "whatever" comment...that's the way I talk. Dig?

As for the groundswell against illegal amnesty...check the live thread cuz I was there, too.

[Miss Didi]

Nice pics, Son House. Thanks for posting. ;)

[DJ MacWoW]

Don't quite get your "whatever" comment...that's the way I talk. Dig?

Does Maynard G Krebs ring a bell? ;)

[Colonel_Flagg]

I don't know about that, that place is a freaking fire disaster waiting to happen.

So the downside to this is .... ?

[DJ MacWoW]

So the downside to this is .... ?

Loss of an historic building due to fire?

[Son House]

I can't back up this claim personally, but we know Cuba, Chavez and China are out there,
we may have some Sailors/Coast Guard that can give witness;

By using "Directional Drilling", U.S. oil reserves in the Gulf of Mexico are being tapped by foreign drillers.
Set-up just beyond the International Water boundary.

[Teacher317]

Go GOP go!!!!! I may just have to send a small donation to encourage this kind of appropriate Congressional behavior!

[pops88]

Thanks for the link. Freeped, as well as my representative in support for the memo.

[John123]

Don’t limit yourself. I hear ghost riding the whip is fun. You should try it... :)

[Miss Didi]

From Rush on Friday:



RUSH: Nancy Pelosi and the gang have left town. There is nothing going to be done for five weeks, not a single appropriation bill -- nothing on drilling. And it was not just four years ago when we saw John Kerry hounding President Bush to go "jawbone" with the Saudis to bring the oil price down? Now, four years later, all they want is for the price to remain high. They want you miserable. They want you suffering.

Anyway, what Pelosi has basically done here is shut down the House so they don't have to talk about offshore drilling. They went out, got aboard their jets and they left town without taking any action on the president's request to drill for oil and other things. Twenty-five members of the House Republican caucus nevertheless stayed behind and continued to make speeches and discuss -- on the floor of the House -- the need to drill here and drill now. But Pelosi ordered the cameras from C-SPAN turned off, she ordered the microphones turned off, and she ordered the press gallery cleared. However, I have just been informed that the lights have come back on. (The cameras have not yet, at least according to C-SPAN.) So this is an excellent sign.

Now, what the House Republicans today are doing right now is just ramming it down the Democrats' throats. When the speaker of the House, who controls all this, orders the cameras turned off, the lights turned off, and the microphones turned off... you know, this is reminiscent of what happened back in the eighties with Newt Gingrich and his boys leading the special orders at night. Tip O'Neill finally got fed up with it and ordered the House closed. The special orders -- they're just in there making speeches to an empty body -- but as long as somebody is speaking C-SPAN contractually had to carry it. So the House Republicans, 25 or 30 of them, are just continuing to hammer away, and they're demanding that the Democrats come back and debate them and talk about this and take action on this thing that the American people care so adamantly about, and that's the supply of oil and providing it for ourselves to make us less dependent on foreign oil.

This is not going to be good for the Democrats, folks. They claim to be for the little guy, they claim to be for the great unwashed and the downtrodden, the homeless, the hungry, and the thirsty, but they've abandoned them -- and they've abandoned them with four-dollar-a-gallon gasoline. They want the price to stay high. The American people are starting to figure this out. The only people making noise about taking market action that would lower price is Republicans. And Obama is in big trouble on this. To sit there and take no action whatsoever and then to say, as he did today, he wants another stimulus check to every American, a thousand dollars paid for by oil company profits... The American people don't want the oil companies paying more taxes. The federal government gets 50% of all the profits that the oil companies report anyway, so this is a winning issue, and I suspect the president and the Republicans are content to have the Democrats out of town and showing that they care nothing at all about the American people. I mean, all the Democrats care about is their own reelections and their upcoming convention.

Now, Representative Mike Pence, Republican, Indiana, who is single-handedly trying to kill the Fairness Doctrine forever, is one of the organizers of this session that is taking place in the House of Representatives today. He says that up to 40 Republican members are prepared to keep the proceedings going. He is quoted as saying, "I'm prepared to stay here as long as we can." He added that before the Democrat motion to adjourn was adopted, a hundred Republicans, 100, had signed up to speak for five minutes each about gas prices, but the adjournment vote precluded that. Bu the Democrats skipped town, got in their own private jets, making their own carbon footprint and flew away. These kinds of tactics, folks, are exactly what is called for. This is worthy of your support.

If you can somehow find a way to let these guys -- the Republicans -- know that you are appreciative of what they're doing, that they're finally standing up and that they are fighting the Democrat majority on this and taking it to them on an issue that matters greatly to a vast majority of the American people, do it. And I want to congratulate them and encourage them to keep up these kinds of legislative tactics. They've been absent for way too long. This is gutsy and it's courageous, and it will stand these guys in good stead. It will inspire their voters, it will inspire them, and you can inspire them by letting them know you appreciate what they are doing.

[Blood of Tyrants]

It is an EXCELLENT move politically. They get free air time and attention and the ‘Rats look like obstructionists who LIKE high gas prices and don’t care at all about the plight of the average Joe who really hurts when he has to fill his tank at nearly $4 a gallon.

[Enchante]

Yes, every event should have candles to demonstrate the retrogression of quality of life if the Demagogues are allowed to squeeze our energy supplies. Maybe someone should find a way to get some whale oil, or at least symbolic whale oil (the predominant fuel and energy source in the 19th century before eviiiillll “fossil fuels”) to discuss what the Demagogues stand for. How about burning dung (common in poorer countries) and shoveling lumps of coal into a firebox..... when my parents were growing up in the 20s and 30s they would fetch coal from outside storage to fuel the stove, and they used outhouses, etc. The Demagogues stand for regression, primitivism, and irrationality about energy supplies. Show the public how the Demagogues are enemies of modern civilization.

[tflabo]

Finally GOP....we missed you greatly....

[vox_freedom]

Good! This is one issue that can absolutely prevail in Congressional elections this November. If only McPain would recognize it as such and hold accountability with Obama and his party it would also assist in the Presidential campaign. But McCain, unfortunately, wouldn't recognize an issue if it hit him on the chin.

[Enchante]

Interesting that a huge majority of the active rigs in the USA are drilling for natural gas. Don’t know if it’s always that way, but it seems like there might be some important points to be made about the relative lack of incentives and opportunity for domestic production of OIL.

Even with gasoline over $4 per gallon the Demagogues have many of the known fields closed to drilling. They babble about all the millions of acres of “leases” not being drilled but guess what, if the oil companies thought there were significant fields there they sure would be drilling......

[golfisnr1]

How about the truckers surrounding the dem convention in Denver.

[Son House]

CSPAN is unable to cover the House proceedings after
Pelosi has CSPAN shut down when Republicans staged a revolt on voting on domestic oil drilling,
moment caught on TV