...make sure to email the link to all family members and friends too!...
Posted on 08/05/2008 6:15:44 AM PDT by eeevil conservative
This is OUR HOUSE!
Nancy tried to silence them, but they heard US, the American people, LOUD AND CLEAR!
They have stayed to fight the fight, it is our turn to stand with them.
I urge ALL of you to come to YOUR HOUSE in Washington, DC and stand with our Representatives Leading this call for Energy Independence. You do not need permission or an invitation.
We, the PEOPLE, DEMAND an up or down vote. We have not only the RIGHT, but the OBLIGATION and DUTY, to peacably assemble, and to petition the Government for a REDRESS of GRIEVANCES! If you cannot come today, then tomorrow., next week; MAKE PLANS! MARCH ON WASHINGTON and join our Reperesentatives.
STAND WITH THEM FOR ENERGY INDEPENDENCE!
READ THE AMERICAN ENERGY ACT ( Rep John Boehner )
Be sure to sign the Petition brought to us by Representative Eric Cantor!
CALL! CALL! CALL!
CALL ALL OF THE REPRESENTATIVES!
Toll free Capital switchboard numbers are:
800-965-4701
800-828-0498
CALL NANCY AND TELL HER TO DO THE PEOPLE'S WORK! (202) 225-4965
CALL THE WHITE HOUSE! 202-456-1111
INCLUDE YOUR SENATORS! LINK
CALL YOUR LOCAL TALK SHOWS!
ATTEND TOWNHALL MEETINGS and CONSTITUENT DAYS!
FREEP NANCY's BOOK TOUR!!!! (Schedule HERE - scroll down)
It’s pretty bad when I get a response quicker from Mike Pence’s office than I get one from my own Representatives office.
Justice received this back about 5 minutes ago:
Dear :
People ID: 7228134
Thank you for contacting me. It was a pleasure to hear from you.
I appreciate your kind words of encouragement. Please know that I will continue striving to represent the residents of Indiana’s Sixth Congressional District in an honorable way.
Again, thank you for contacting me. It is an honor to serve in the United States House of Representatives and have the benefit of your advice. If you would like more information on this or any other issue, please visit my website at http://mikepence.house.gov.
Letter Number: 2369801
Warmest regards,
Mike Pence
Member of Congress
FINALLY! Signed it, 12510!
FROM HOTAIR.COM (same Boehner letter) with, NEW CONSERVATIVE WEBSITE BELOW
Boehner calls bluff of “pro-drilling” Dems: Prove you’re not liars by joining with us now!
From Boehner’s office:
House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) today issued the following statement in response to an article in today’s Politico that suggests Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has secretly signaled to rank-and-file House Democratic lawmakers that they should feel free to portray themselves publicly as pro-drilling if it helps them politically:
“My message to Democratic lawmakers is this: if you’re really for increased American energy production, then prove it by putting it in writing. Sign the discharge petitions House Republicans are circulating that will force votes on energy legislation Speaker Pelosi refuses to bring to the floor. And sign onto the American Energy Act, our ‘all of the above’ plan to increase conservation, innovation, and American energy production, instead of doing the Speaker’s bidding by voting against bringing it to a vote. If you aren’t willing to put it in writing, you’re fooling no one. You’re siding with the Speaker of the Drill-Nothing Congress and radical special interests that favor higher gas prices, at the expense of energy-strapped American families.”
“This cynical strategy is disgustingly dishonest. Without any real solutions to help Americans who are struggling with record-high gas prices, it appears the Democratic leadership has hit on a new plan: deceive. Deceive the press, deceive its members, and deceive the American people. Democratic members have a ‘pass’ from their leaders to talk about drilling at home, while the liberal Democratic leadership – which is beholden to special interests that want higher gas prices – plays ‘rope-a-dope’ back in Washington, ensuring there is no vote to help the American people before November. It’s cynical, dishonest, and wrong – and it won’t work.”
Update: Conservative new-media types strike while the iron is hot.
GOT IT!
THANKS!!
...make sure to email the link to all family members and friends too!...
GO BOEHNER!! Thanks for posting this!!
We should copy them and fax them to every single ‘Bluedog’ democrat! ESPECIALLY THE ONES THAT RAHM EMAMNUEL CYNICALLY WON WITH IN 2006!!
Going to get my fax up and humming right now!! These phones calls are getting expensive since most of our money is going to pay the Pelosi premium. (eye roll)
Just turned 13,000!
I’m game.
Informative and very attractively presented post devolve!
NRO
August 05, 2008, 0:00 a.m.
Guerilla Congress
The House GOP is fighting the good fight on energy policy.
By Mark Hemingway
For all the talk about leveraging new technology for political organizing, Congressman Tim Walberg doesn’t see the need to reinvent the wheel to get across his message that gas prices are hurting his constituents back in Michigan.
Walberg has been carrying around a plastic gas can and asking his constituents to drop their gas receipts into the can with hand written messages telling him how gas prices are hurting their family. Kitschy? Sure — but it’s no doubt an effective prop for getting his message across.
That gas can was certainly been put to good use during the last two days in Congress. Last Friday, after Democrats voted to adjourn for five weeks without passing an energy bill — a motion that carried by a single vote without one Republican in favor — Republicans decided to protest by staying in town and railing against Democratic inaction from the house floor. After C-SPAN’s cameras and the microphones were turned off, Republicans were speaking to anybody who would listen about what’s been going on.
After two days of speaking to a half-full visitors’ gallery — and Congressmen personally leading Capitol visitors to sit in the seats on the House floor — you’d think they’d be running out of things to talk about and losing enthusiasm.
But that’s not the case. All Tim Walberg has to do is reach back into his gas can and he’s got plenty of stories to tell about the price of energy. This day, he starts talking about a voter named Beth from the blue-collar burg of Jackson, Michigan. Her family is coughing up $175 a week to pay for gas.
“We can no longer afford to send our kids to Catholic school,” Walberg says, relaying Beth’s note. “It’s gas or dentistry for my son.” Walberg wraps up his speech on the floor of the House, invoking shades of his former career as a minister by paraphrasing no less an authority than Moses: “Madam Speaker, let my people vote!” Walberg says to a thunderous standing ovation.
Walberg cedes the floor to another Republican congressman — ranking House Ways and Means Committee member Wally Herger who launches into his own passionate oratory about how gas prices are affecting his constituents.
For Herger, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s inaction is almost a personal affront. Herger’s rural district in Nothern California borders Pelosi’s San Franscisco to the south. The median home price in San Francisco is close to a million dollars, so Pelosi’s city stays humming largely because Herger’s poorer constituents are willing to commute to jobs in the city serving Pelosi’s wealthy constituents. Berger than enthusiastically gives out the speaker’s phone number and begs those present to call Pelosi and register their disgust with her decision to adjourn.
Of course one might point out that Walberg and Herger — and the dozens of Republicans to speak in protest over the last two days — have been able to speak to only a few hundred people at a time, mostly tourists that are passing through the Capitol building. There are no TV cameras to be found, so it may seem hard to see how effective this grandstanding will be. (Though you can watch some video of it here.)
But that’s precisely why the spectacle seems to be so compelling. House Republicans don’t seem to care. The American people overwhelmingly agree with them, they have Pelosi’s back up against the wall, and this is almost a celebration of sorts for them. Having talked to numerous Republican House members over the last year, it was nearly an open secret that morale was exceedingly low among the ranks.
Arizona congressmen John Shadegg — beloved by the party’s conservative base — announced his retirement back in February before his party successfully begged him not to go through with it. The guy who wanted to retire was a kid in a candy store last Friday when Republicans kicked off the protest. “I love this,” Shadegg told reporters in the House press gallery. “Congress can be so boring. . . . This is a kick.”
The Republican enthusiasm and the message driving it — that congress shouldn’t be on vacation when high gas prices are forcing ordinary Americans to cancel theirs — is turning out to be irrepressible. Over the weekend, Barack Obama suggested he may not be entirely opposed to more domestic oil exploration after all, something that if he does end up supporting would prove to be yet another major policy reversal by the Democratic nominee. In fact, ABC news reported that House GOP sources said they would not have continued the protest a second day “if the Democratic nominee had not modified his position on offshore drilling.”
Well, on Monday, Obama then gave a major energy address suggesting that 70 million barrels of oil be released from the country’s strategic reserves to alleviate gas prices. As far as Republicans are concerned, that’s a twofer — a bad idea in that it’s not a long-term solution, and it represents another policy reversal for Obama.
The House GOP’s decision to draw attention to the Democratic leadership’s failure to produce an energy bill is also wreaking electoral havoc in at least one Senate race. At a televised debate July 28, Colorado congressmen and Democratic senatorial candidate Mark Udall said he would not vote to adjourn congress until they had an energy bill.
Udall then skipped the vote, which passed 213-212 without a single Republican voting in favor. Had Udall been there and lived up to his campaign promise, the motion to adjourn would not have passed. Udall has been heavily criticized by television and newspapers in Colorado, and the National Republican Senatorial Committee has been having a field day mocking Udall for his broken promise. And it’s been a close race between Udall and Republican congressman Bob Schafer before Udall missed the vote.
With energy issues poised to be big in November, for now the momentum on the issue has swung the Republicans’ way. And the House GOP shows no signs of giving up yet. On Tuesday afternoon, Texas congressmen Jeb Hensarling announced that a number of Republican Senators were on planes ready to join the House Republicans in their fight.
They’re also quite confident that one way or another they’re going to call Speaker Pelosi’s bluff. For one thing, more domestic oil exploration and a new energy bill aren’t exactly issues that have to break along party lines. In fact, they’re confident if an up-or-down vote were allowed on the issue, enough Democrats would vote for it to pass it handily. The only way Pelosi can defeat it is to keep the vote from happening in the first place.
House Republicans don’t think Pelosi can withstand continued pressure. Speaking on the floor of the House, Georgia congressmen Phil Gingrey said he expects to look at his Blackberry anytime, and see a message saying, “ALERT: Speaker of the House has called Congress back.”
If that e-mail arrives and Democrats return, the odds are they’ll find the Republican opposition right where they left them.
signed the petition....who should I call???
LOL,
I will have to take your word for it!
;)
“Cogito ergo sum pro vita.”
I think therefore I am pro-life.
;-)))
Thanks for the ping! Home now as the speeches finished up around 3:30 pm with Rep. John "Judge" Carter (R-TX) leading the assembly in a rousing rendition of God Bless America! Tons and tons and tons of tourists got a big thrill sitting in the seats on the House floor!
There was quite the crowd there. Standing ovations, cheering, even chanting. Keep in mind these are not partisan crowds, but TOURISTS going through the Capitol building tour. Good stuff.
Will be back tomorrow. Newt Gingrich is speaking at the House (didn't yet have know the location when I left today) tomorrow at 10:00 am... hope he can show these guys how to lead a Republican Revolution.
Thank you! and we ARE in agreement!
Thanks for the ping!
and Chiner
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Bumperoo!
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