Here at FREE REPUBLIC, The Lights are ON!!!! Republicans Take a Stand (Live Thread II)

To: NonValueAdded

and a gross of drill bits to nan

21 posted on 08/04/2008 6:14:43 AM PDT by Mom MD (Jesus is the Light of the world!)

To: NonValueAdded

and a gross of drill bits to nan

22 posted on 08/04/2008 6:14:44 AM PDT by Mom MD (Jesus is the Light of the world!)

To: ConservativeMan55

Great! That’s a start......

;-))

23 posted on 08/04/2008 6:15:21 AM PDT by SumProVita ("Cogito ergo sum pro vita." .....updated Descartes)

To: eeevil conservative

24 posted on 08/04/2008 6:15:31 AM PDT by tiredoflaundry

Just as an update to the Czarina's book tour, apparently Amazon has deleted over 200 negative reviews of Nancy's lousy book.

Why did Amazon dump over 200 reviews of Nancy's crapfest?

25 posted on 08/04/2008 6:16:03 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia

To: eeevil conservative

Thanks for all you do, eeevil! Hoping that this will take center stage on Rush today. From Friday's show:

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.

26 posted on 08/04/2008 6:16:04 AM PDT by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)

To: eeevil conservative

Great job EC we need to keep the ball rolling!

27 posted on 08/04/2008 6:16:09 AM PDT by rodguy911 (LAND OF THE FREE BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE)

To: eeevil conservative

HERE!! Making HUGE pot of coffee! BRB!

WOOHOOO!!

28 posted on 08/04/2008 6:16:30 AM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")

To: eeevil conservative; netmilsmom

This was posted on other thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2055939/posts?page=216

Will check back later. Have to take my son to work.

29 posted on 08/04/2008 6:16:46 AM PDT by Marmolade

30 posted on 08/04/2008 6:16:52 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (College kid: "Do you have a minute for Obama?" NVA: "Not now or ever.")

To: ConservativeMan55

31 posted on 08/04/2008 6:16:53 AM PDT by Gopher Broke (Check out a great Blog....http://roanokeconservative.blogspot.com/)

To: rightwingintelligentsia

Sorry to all if this has been posted already, I just got to the thread. KFI radio, Los Angeles, is reporting that Pelosi will not allow C-Span to turn on the cameras today. They said that she calls the shots on this. Even the libs on the news crews seemed surprised to hear this...even disappointed.

The tide is turning.

32 posted on 08/04/2008 6:17:12 AM PDT by truthkeeper (It's the borders, stupid.)

To: eeevil conservative

Missed the whole one last time (with Family) but I’ll gladly help with this one! (Ok, well I’m always embarrassed to call anyone, but I will mass email and see if I can hit any of the Diggs, currents, etc. with the news)

33 posted on 08/04/2008 6:17:20 AM PDT by Toki

To: eeevil conservative

34 posted on 08/04/2008 6:18:27 AM PDT by Isara

To: eeevil conservative

35 posted on 08/04/2008 6:18:56 AM PDT by truthkeeper (It's the borders, stupid.)

We will get around the camera thing. :)

36 posted on 08/04/2008 6:19:27 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55

To: areukiddingme1

YOU ROCK!!!

Get down there and thank them for being there!!!

Please keep us posted!

If you can talk to any of the Congressman— and they would like to do an internet radio interview— Please give them my number— I can put them into what ever show is on the air and get them on....

I will send you my phone number!

37 posted on 08/04/2008 6:19:49 AM PDT by eeevil conservative (GIVE ME A PLACE TO STAND AND I WILL MOVE THE EARTH....Archimedes)

To: eeevil conservative

I tried calling several of the Republicans this morning, their mailboxes were full...a good sign. I did call my rep (unfortunately, it is Sestak, with a D. I respectfully requested that he get himself BACK to Washington pronto to work on energy policy like the Republicans are doing. I will vote for the man or woman that says drill here, drill now. My prepaid oil plan wants 4.55/gallon of heating oil, up almost $2.00/gallon from last year. That is patently absurb, we’ll be cutting down the trees for fuel!!!

38 posted on 08/04/2008 6:20:31 AM PDT by SueRae

Laptop + webcam + youtube

39 posted on 08/04/2008 6:20:52 AM PDT by Overtaxed (Carbon dioxide...make it for the trees.)

To: Gopher Broke

I just sent Rep. Boehner an e-mai thanking him for all he is doing.

40 posted on 08/04/2008 6:21:28 AM PDT by rodguy911 (LAND OF THE FREE BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE)

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