Posted on 08/08/2008 9:02:24 AM PDT by ken21
Still, it was probably too much to assume every Republican would work out that their side was winning this issue. And so, last Friday, in stumbled Sens. Lindsey Graham, John Thune, Saxby Chambliss, Bob Corker and Johnny Isakson -- alongside five Senate Democrats. This "Gang of 10" announced a "sweeping" and "bipartisan" energy plan to break Washington's energy "stalemate." What they did was throw every vulnerable Democrat, and Mr. Obama, a life preserver.
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i did a search with no results.
big bummer, dudes!
EVERY “bipartisan effort” is a concession to the Democrats.
A maneuver championed of course, by the moderate Democrat who heads the Republican ticket this Fall.
Actually, the Republicans fumbled when they failed to overturn the Offshore Drilling ban in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006 when they controlled the White House, the Senate and the House of Reps.
I called everyone of these scumbags
so, you disagree with her?
thank you!
yo’ right!
i hate that word “bipartisan”.
and “partisan”.
i know the media well enough that there’s in-coming do-do.
hope you’re right.
as the “privileged”, to use their word, they fly about the u.s. and the world,
and drive here and there with abandon.
but they don’t understand that they are causing severe hardship to the “working class” that they pretend to represent.
The real fumble , in the end zone is from Obama. If he’s the leader of the democrats he should call them back into session and get a bill passed which calls for more drilling and exploration. He has failed to do this. The gop dropped the ball for 12 years, but McCain and the gop are ready to go right now. So we can play the blame game but the reality is McCain and the gop are ready to act today, Obama and the democrats are not. Plain and simple.
Drill here, drill now has been working. But these buffoons somehow could't grasp that as polls shifted in their favor in the past few months.
it’s called socialism and fascism—the taking of private property from others and redistributing it for the political aggrandizement of the nomenclatura.
si.
yes!
With Lindsey Graham in the Republican Five, who doubts that McCain also approves of this? Compromising with the Dems. on the crude oil supply issue is about the dumbest thing Republicans could do at present. This is their best issue, so I guess they can’t stand having a strong issue, so they night largely take it off the table as an election issue.
They should forget this compromise nonsense and push for drilling everywhere, which about 70% of the voters support. But some of them just can’t deal with an issue that has 70% approval, so they might well put this one on the same shelf with the immigration issue and escort Obama into the White House, in spite of his continuing to prove how unready he is.
I agree. These guys gave away half the store before we started. The only “bargaining” now in the senate will be between the democrat’s “do nothing”, and this “compromise” by the republicans.
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