House Republicans to Resume Floor Protest on American Energy Monday (Boehner calls for action)

House Republican Leader John Boehner ^ | 3 August 2008 | John Boehner

[SE Mom]

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.

“It’s not a request we make lightly. But the American people are suffering,” Boehner and Blunt said in the memo. “The consequences of continued congressional inaction on gas prices are unacceptable. We’ve called on the Speaker to call Congress back into an emergency session this month and schedule a vote on the American Energy Act. We must continue to make a stand until the Speaker complies.”

“We realize not everyone can be in Washington next week. But if you can be, we ask that you come to the Capitol, join our colleagues, and lend your voice, beginning this Monday at 10:00 am,” the GOP leaders wrote. “If you can’t be in Washington, we ask that you contribute to the cause in other ways – such as spreading the word among your constituents, writing an op-ed for your local newspaper, or taking our ‘all of the above’ energy message to your local airwaves.”

“Republicans stand with the American people. We share their passion and determination for energy independence, and we’ve pledged to fight boldly until Congress heeds their will,” Boehner and Blunt concluded.

[eeevil conservative]

That would be a great help!!!

;-)

WILD WEEKEND!! I am wiped out!!

and I wasn’t even TIPSY at THE WHOLE WEEKEND!!!

LOL!

[eeevil conservative]

I would rather let the AMERICAN PEOPLE CALL THEM BACK!!

[TornadoAlley3]

Nancy also said when asked about the power of the speaker...that it is “AWESOME!”

She held up 3 fingers and said she was third in line to Pres. and she loved the power...talked about “special sauce” and said men are not the only ones with the recipe. Nutty as a fruitcake, Nancy:)

[TornadoAlley3]

Nancy explained that her philosophy is summed up by two words, special sauce.

[Miss Didi]

I didn't know that Sean picked up on this! He has 13 million listeners so this got out big time! If he will pick it up again on Monday we will get some great play out of this.

Rush, too, Rodguy...I think he would have covered it more if it hadn't been his 20th.



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.

[STARWISE]

Damn .. she’s off her rocker and puffed
up with power. Let’s knock her off her
pedestal !

[STARWISE]

Forgot to ping you to #78 ... ;)
Thank you for ALL you do and give
for these United States of America.

[Miss Didi]

I see that Rush's pic of Crazy Nan fits your posts quite nicely.

[TornadoAlley3]

give her some “special sauce”

[Repeal 16-17]

I hope this leads to something much bigger than the Republican playing House.

[pctech]

With I had decent transportation, I’d drive out there myself and I live in Indiana.

[TornadoAlley3]

http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/mcapdir.html

[retrokitten]

I'm here with the glitter!! (That makes me sound a little like Rip Taylor)

[netmilsmom]

Starwise, Is someone posting a second thread on Monday? Maybe eeevil conservative?

I’ll start monitoring Twitter early.

[retrokitten]

Also, Mz. Pelosi will be at the Free Library of Philadelphia on Tuesday evening signing copies of her book.

Book signing info

From the link....

Speaker Pelosi will only sign copies of her current book. No memorabilia or photos permitted.

What sort of loser would you be to have Nancy Pelosi memorabilia?

[Fishtalk]

I’ve been thinking...

The Dems aren’t going to take this lying down.

They’ve got to have some kind of plan.

Maybe Barrack will announce his VP choice and suck up the PR air.

Or maybe they’re negotiating behind the scenes....

....I find it hard to believe Bush would force congress back into session. In fact, I’m surprised the president can do such a thing.

What happened to separation of powers.

But the Dems are plotting. The Dems are good at mischief, lies and spin.

[eeevil conservative]

yes— I will post a thread tomorrow morning....

I am going to try and gather the info tonight - so the thread wll have fast and easy info for everyone right at the beginning...

I do need some help though...I will FREEP mail you...

if you would be so kind to help, I sure would appreciate it.

[SoftballMominVA]

I’m pretty sure my husband is going over to the Capital tomorrow - any ideas what he might could do to help out?

[del4hope]

I am also contacting everyone I now across the country to keep an eye out on this. I have contacted everyone I know who are constituents of these statesmen and stateswomen who have found their spines. I am encouraging their constituents to THANK their representatives and to inform others in the district of what is happening.

I only wish I could thank my rep.

[del4hope]

oops....Everyone I “know”, not “now”