61% say Congress Should Vote on Offshore Drilling Right Now
"Six out of 10 Americans (61%) say Congress should return to Washington immediately to vote on lifting the ban on offshore oil drilling, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. But voters overwhelmingly expect Congress to adjourn this year without taking action.
Even more (67%) recognize that Republicans are the ones pushing for offshore drilling, and 77% say the issue is important to them in terms of how they will vote for Congress this November. Forty-five percent (45%) of voters say it is Very Important. Voters see a clear difference between the political parties on this issue as 61% perceive that congressional Democrats oppose offshore drilling.
While their leaders in Congress oppose a vote on drilling, half of Democratic voters(48%) think the Democratic-led Congress should return right away to deal with it. Just 40% of Nancy Pelosi's party disagree. Seventy eight percent (78%) of Republicans and unaffiliated voters, by a two-to-one margin, believe Congress should return to vote immediately..."
Gas went up 12 cents a gallon here yesterday.
I’m so sick of it.
ya know— I am just AMAZED that even folks on “our side” have allowed themselves to fall into the establishment media/Dem?Pelosi trap.
They haven’t bothered to read Boehner’s bill and realize that alternative energy, etc is all in there!
sigh....
btw— we need to get Dana to go to DC with the House Repubs.... She can then say— “I was there”— Nancy was on a dying book tour, with sprinkled media interviews defending her investment with T-Boone Pickens.....