Boehner to supposedly pro-drilling House Democrats: Oh, so you’re on *our* side, now?
Prove it. Sign here, please.
Tuesday, August 5, 2008 at 03:09PM
*Hey, non scriptus, non est*, baby:
My message to Democratic lawmakers is this: if youre 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 Speakers bidding by voting against bringing it to a vote. If you arent willing to put it in writing, youre fooling no one. Youre 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. Its cynical, dishonest, and wrong and it wont work.
H/T Hot Air: the discharge petitions can be found here; and this is in response to Pelosi’s rather pathetically cynical attempt to play political games with your weekly gasoline bill. See also Rand Simberg (via Glenn for more on that, by the way.
Oh my! Ohmyohmyohmy! These guys finally have it together.
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)
I love it so! Nowhere to hide.