Posted on 08/04/2008 9:08:48 AM PDT by kristinn
It was hard to not get twisted up in pretzel knots listening to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whose explanation on "This Week with George Stepanopoulos" about why she hasn't allowed a vote on Republican energy legislation that would ease restrictions on offshore drilling was, to be polite, confusing.
It may have left some in the audience feeling bewildered as a seabird fouled by an oil spill.
Pelosi, a California Democrat, accused Republicans of being monomaniacal on the drilling issue and of suggesting to voters that drilling would immediately lower gas prices. She wasn't going to play along with something that would mislead voters, she asserted.
Here's the problem with that. Anyone who has listened to the debate has heard House Republicans say they are willing to consider a range of options from the use of renewable energy sources to new alternative fuels to conservation so long as they can get a vote on off-shore drilling.
Evidence for this is found in energy legislation introduced by House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio, the American Energy Act which includes the language to encourage conservation and alternative-fuels research though it obviously places the stress on getting drilling opened up on the Outer Continental Shelf of the U.S. coasts.
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So she will allow the American people to be misled, in her view, by Republican legislation that she says only offers the illusion of addressing high gas prices, so long as Republicans are smart enough to figure out how to get their legislation to the floor? That doesn't make a lot of sense, but that's what she appeared to say.
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redgolum or macwow? Those are the two I found...except for
mine! LOL!
Exactly where the Queen wants it...brings in more tax money, you see! That’s all they care about!
Then they will unveil a BOLD...NEW...ENERGY PLAN (aka smoke and mirrors with oil rights for Manhattan Island the Chicago Loop, Stone Mountain Georgia, going on auction) and be hailed by the MSM as our saviors.
But, they will have to do something because gas is only going to get cheaper with more oil coming from our own resources.
Dems have a huge Achilles Heel on this. Can Repubs make the most of it? Some can. Some will. All should.
The only Americans who support Pelosi are most likely the same ones who constitute the truther nuts and all the other leftist wacko conspiratorialists. The facts are in front of them, but they refuse to give in. Because they can’t. It would destroy their socialist dream of a command economy with them in charge of everybody elses lives. Everybody riding bicycles or walking to the fields from their mud huts which would be our homes in their future socialist, non-industrialized America.
Your graphic is priceless!
On one hand, “America's new Nazi” proclaims offshore drilling as only a temporary patch to a planet endangering problem. In the very next breath, she advocates emptying the Strategic Oil Reserve. Now, maybe I'm wrong, but to me the second of those two postulations sounds much more like a “temporary fix”.
When we drain our Strategic Reserve, it's gone, folks, and we're faced with replacing it with $4 a gallon oil! To say nothing of the peril in which it places our nation. The “Reserve” is maintained in case our oil is ever completely cut off, so, yes, its a matter of national security.
I wouldn't doubt but what my Senators, Coburn and Inhofe, are there as well. They may come home to talk to their folks though. Just in case any of them are reading this, I want you to know how very much we appreciate your efforts.
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