Republicans Continue Protest Over Offshore Oil Drilling
In a continuance of the Republican protest of last Friday when the house adjourned without voting on the energy crisis, Republicans today returned to the house to debate the energy bill. Even though Democrats are gone and the house is adjourned Republicans today showed up to do the work of the American people.
This is a publicity stunt, I admit it, but it could be more than that. This is also an attempt by the Republicans to force Nancy Pelosi into re-adjourning the house for an emergency session on the energy crisis. This is a win-win situation for the Republicans.
Democrats are not interested in helping the American people with energy and gas costs before the election because they are afraid that this will help Republicans in November, so to them it’s “fuck the people, we have to save our own asses.” That is why they adjourned before this issue was addressed but Republicans are not going to go quietly. There is no way that the Democrats can acquiesce to this ploy because of the victory it will hand the Republicans, however if the public puts enough pressure on them perhaps they will.
Here is a statement from Duncan Hunter:
“It’s very important that the speaker come back, bring this House back into session, and do the responsible thing, which is to … increase the independence of the United States with respect to petroleum.
Republicans are trying to force the hand of the Democrats, they are trying to make them put their money where there mouths are. Democrats have been saying for years that we have to do something about the energy crisis, yet when they had the chance they adjourned the house and did nothing. Now Republicans are trying to hold their feet to the fire.
It is about time.
Barack Obama Flip Flops on Offshore Oil Drilling
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John McCain recently flip flopped on the issue of domestic offshore oil drilling and seems to have gained a little bit of traction from people who actually believe that he is telling the truth. He isn’t, he is a fraud and he is just trying to find an issue where he and President Obama disagree. He has finally found one now that he “saw the light” and decided that he supports drilling even after years of opposing it. This has become a hot button issue and seemed to be an issue John McCain could win on. That is until now.
President Obama must have seen that McCain was gaining a little traction now that over 2/3 of Americans want to drill for more oil and so now he has also flip flopped on this issue. The only difference is that Mr. President is smarter than the others who want to drill for oil.
we have to compromise in terms of a careful, well thought-out drilling strategy that was carefully circumscribed to avoid significant environmental damage
He will drill for oil the right way, thank God that he is here because he is much smarter than the others who have come before him and will drill smarter. Only he can drill and keep the environment safe. Does he really believe that anybody who finally gets approval to drill will not find new safer drilling techniques that will keep the environment safe? No matter who the president is safer drilling techniques would be a requirement, that is a no-brainer. That statement sounds good but really it means nothing. (Other than the fact that he was on the losing side of this issue and he has now conveniently positioned himself in line with McCain on this issue).
He is once again trying to take both sides of an issue. On one hand he is playing to the American people who support oil drilling, and on the other he is playing to the environmentalists. He can’t have it both ways. Neither can McCain, who has opposed every effort to drill for more oil in the United Sates until he was running for president and saw the latest polls concerning domestic oil drilling. Both of these men are frauds and it is sad to see that these are the best two candidates we could come up with.
Here is a quote from President Obama that really irks me. And we have heard this comment from many Democrats and Republicans who oppose oil drilling, not just President Obama. They are almost all guilty of this misleading statement:
“It’s also important to recognize if you start drilling now you won’t see a drop of oil for ten years, which means its not going to have a significant impact on short-term prices.
What irks me about that statement isn’t the fact that it has been made for many, many years and that if we had drilled years ago instead of debating it we would now be reaping the rewards of the drilling. What irks me the most is the assumption in that statement that if we just switch to alternative energy the problem will be solved over night. Sure it may take a decade to produce oil, but if we start trying to mass produce alternative energy will it arrive any sooner? Can we wave an alternative energy wand and instantly reduce our dependency on oil? I don’t think so, it still takes years to develop and implement other sources of energy. That is what bothers me about that statement, it’s misleading premise that while increased oil drilling won’t help for ten years that somehow alternative energy will be readily available immediately. It all takes time and time is wasting.
The last day that the house was in session proved to be an interesting one indeed. Democrats refused to bring to a vote an issue that will eventually help Americans with one of their number one concerns, fuel prices.
Democrats stalled a vote on offshore oil drilling and called for an end to the legislative session, leaving the problem of fuel costs hanging without a solution for the Summer recess. So much for the Democrats caring for the little people.
Republicans refused to leave the floor and continued debating even though the session was over and even after the lights were shut off. Eventually the mics and television cameras were all turned off but the Republicans kept on debating as a sign of protest. Sticking up for the little people.
“Although this Democrat majority just adjourned for the Democrat 5-week vacation, House Republicans are continuing to fight on the House floor. Although the lights, mics and C-SPAN cameras have been turned off, House Republicans are on the floor speaking to the taxpayers in the gallery who, not surprisingly, agree with Republican energy proposals.
An editorial in today’s New Hampshire Union leader says that recent polls show that more than 2/3 of Americans believe that we should be drilling for more oil, the editorial then goes on to ask why the Democrats won’t vote on an issue that so many Americans are in agreement on.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid are desperate to avoid a vote on oil drilling before the November elections. They know they will lose such a vote, and they fear Republicans will get credit for taking action to lower oil and gas prices.
So to prevent that electoral nightmare, they simply refuse to allow a floor vote on offshore drilling
They are putting politics above the needs and will of the American people. They are so concerned that the Republicans will look like winners and that it will hurt their re-election chances that they would rather delay the vote and to hell with what the American people want. So they just ran and hid rather that facing the vote and the will of the people, to the chagrin of Republicans.
“This is the people’s House,” said Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-Mich.). “This is not Pelosi’s politiburo.”
When Republicans finally stopped the protest five hours after the session ended they were met with cheers:
Right at the stroke of five Georgia Rep. Tom Price announced that House Republicans were ending their impromptu protest on the floor of the chamber, ending a five-plus hour rebellion with a round of “God Bless America.”
The assembled tourists, aides and members in the chamber gave Price and his compatriots a standing ovation. They left the chamber to shouts of “USA! USA! USA!”
You can read a live blogging type transcript of the day’s action here.
Barack Obama Plays the Race Card Part 2
This is the second time that President Obama has played the race card in this election. Here is what Obama recently had to say:
So what they’re going to try to do is make you scared of me,” Obama said. “You know, he’s not patriotic enough, he’s got a funny name, you know, he doesn’t look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills.”
This is not the first time that President Obama has used language very similar to this, here is a quote I used in a post on June 21st.
“They’re going to try to make you afraid of me. He’s young and inexperienced and he’s got a funny name. And did I mention he’s black?”
Naturally John McCain criticized Obama for his stereotype of Republicans and President Obama’s campaign scrambled to explain that the statement has nothing to do with race.
“What Barack Obama was talking about was that he didn’t get here after spending decades in Washington,” Gibbs said Thursday. “There is nothing more to this than the fact that he was describing that he was new to the political scene. He was referring to the fact that he didn’t come into the race with the history of others. It is not about race.”
What a crock of shit that statement is, all Americans liberal and conservative know exactly what President Obama meant. The term “look like” meant only one thing, and the fact that Obama believes that conservatives may be scared of him because of his race is bigoted and hateful. And condescending.
He may be right about one thing, conservatives are afraid of him. But we are not afraid of him because of his color, we are afraid of him because of his policies. He is the most liberal person ever to make it this close to the presidency, and in 3 months he will win the white house and conservatives find the thought of such a liberal president scary.
This is not a race issue President Obama, please don’t stoop so low as to make it one. Debate conservatives on the issues, not on the color of your skin. We are past that, it is time that you get past it also.
Democrats Poised to Attack the Freedom of the Press
Once Democrats get their 60 vote majority after the November election one of the first things that they are going to do is to go after the freedom of the press. Here is the first amendment:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press (emphasis mine); or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Yet abridging the freedom of the press is exactly what the Democrats plan to do by reinstating the fairness doctrine which was repealed under Ronald Reagan.
Democrats claim that talk radio is unfair because it is mainly conservative. They are right, it is mainly conservative. But so what? Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of the press means congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of the press. It is cut and dry, there is no debate about this yet congress is poised to do just that. They claim talk radio isn’t fair, but so what? Nowhere does it say that the media has to be fair, only that it cannot be abridged. Ask George Bush if the media is fair.
“Obviously, if one group, or a large group, controls information and only allows one perspective to be presented, that’s not good for democracy. That is not good for the American public. That is, of course, what the Fairness Doctrine is directed at, and it can have great merit.
Maybe if liberal talk radio was interesting it wouldn’t be so one sided. The liberals already dominate the print and electronic media but that isn’t good enough. There is no fairness doctrine for television or newspapers, yet the one form of media that favors conservatism must be shut down.
Whether you are a liberal or a conservative you should see how dangerous this is. Letting the government control the media is a direct violation of the first amendment, but then again since when did liberals care about the constitution?
Global Warming Will Create too Many Male Fish
You have to give the global warming alarmists a gold medal in creativeness, the latest problem that will come from man-made global warming is too many male fish. If they are nothing else they are imaginative. This is so absurd that I can’t even get worked up about it any more. The more “research” that “scientists” do to study the possible effects of global warming the more ludicrous they become. Soon the “scientists” will become laughingstocks, won’t they? There has to come a time when people finally say that these “theories” have gone too far and are unbelievable. To me they already are, but to read stories about fish sex and global warming it just reaffirms my thoughts about this scam.
“We found that in fish that do have temperature-dependent sex determination [TSD], a rise in water temperature of just 1.5 degrees Celsius can change the male-to-female ratio from 1:1 to 3:1,” says Piferrer, the study’s co-author. In especially sensitive fish, a greater increase can throw the balance even more out of whack. Ospina-Alvarez and Piferrer have found that in the South American pejerrey, for example, an increase of 4 degrees Celsius can result in a population that is 98% male.
What else can I say? What will they think of next? First cats are breeding too quickly because of global warming and now there will be too many male fish.
I can only hope that the more and more ridiculous the stories become, the more people will walk away from this hoax.
Once again the global warming alarmists are flexing their anti-capitalist muscles. Why does this always seem to happen in California? Perhaps it is because of their Rino governor.
With nothing better to do the attorney general of California is going after the true enemy, capitalism. He wants to stop a water bottling company from building in California. Why? Because it is a possible cause of future global warming.
How many possible jobs would be created if this company were to be built? That doesn’t matter to the people who have fallen victims to the lie that is global warming. Global warming is a tax raising, big government, liberty draining, anti capitalist plot to subjugate the American people through taxes, regulations, and big government programs.
More taxes = less money = less freedoms and liberties, more regulations = less freedoms and liberties, less jobs = less money = less liberties and freedoms, and finally more government programs = less freedoms and liberties + more dependency on the government. Do you see a common theme here? I do.
Today President Bush signed the mortgage bailout bill thereby throwing the burden of paying off the mortgages of the people who had no business having mortgages in the first place right into the laps of hard working, tax paying Americans. Can I be the first to stand up and say thank you? Yes thank you because now on top of paying my own mortgage additional money that used to belong to me will be going to pay for someone else’s mortgage. Thanks allot!
President Bush was so proud of this accomplishment that he signed it……in private. He then emailed the announcement after the fact. What a cowardly thing to do. President Bush knew that this bill was opposed by those of us who still support him so instead of standing up and saying “this is what I believe, and I am going to sign the bill”, he chose to just sign it and hope nobody noticed. This is the exact type of behavior I have grow accustomed to in New Hampshire from my governor, John Lynch. I do not let him get away with it here, so I will not let the president get away with it here either. At least when he tried to screw us on the illegal immigrant amnesty bill he had the guts to come forward and state his position. Why then didn’t he do the same on this bill? Because maybe he really doesn’t support it. But then why would he sign it? It seems to me that President Bush is looking for a victory, any victory in his last few months as president and he wanted to at least be able to put this “victory” under his belt.
Let’s face it, his second term has been nothing to write home about, he almost gave amnesty to illegals (and still supports the idea) and he has been able to get nothing done. And now this. The only thing that he has been able to do is hold of the surrender in Iraq, and who knows, he is now talking about a “time-line horizon”, maybe that’s coming next month.
So now in a desperate attempt to try to gain a little in national approval ratings he risks losing the few remaining conservatives who are still behind him in order to gain in the polls with the Democrats. (Sounds like McCain). Why else would he sign a bill sponsored by Chris Dodd, and of all people, Barney Frank?
I am finding it harder and harder to defend this man and I have been one of his staunchest defenders for almost eight years (almost two years here), but I am finding it difficult to hide my growing displeasure with President Bush. He is suddenly more worried about the polls than doing what is right, and that is the opposite of what I liked about him. He seemed to do what he thought was right even though it hurt him in the polls. In this respect he sounds more like a Democrat. He has just signed the largest bailout in history. That definitely sounds more like a Democrat.
I think I might be feeling a little Bush Derangement Syndrome coming on. Somebody call the doctor, I don’t feel so well.
Top Al-Qaeda Leader Killed in Pakistan?
A Pakistani intelligence agent is reporting that a top Al-Qaeda leader was killed in a US air strike in Pakistan. This is the man rumored to be a chemical and biological weapons expert, and appears to be a high profile target.
The United States has yet to confirm the identity of the victim. We have had reports of major targets being killed before only to find out that they were unfounded, so who knows if this is true, we will just have to wait and see.
If it is true it is a major “get” for the United States and I find it ironic that it happened just as President Obama was finishing his “America will surrender after I become president” world tour.
John McCain Flip Flops on No New Tax Pledge
This is what you deserve if you voted for John McCain in the primary. I hope you are happy. John McCain has flip flopped on his promise not to raise taxes, or at least softened his opposition. Let’s not forget that he did vote against the Bush tax cuts-twice.
“There is nothing that’s off the table. I have my positions, and I’ll articulate them. But nothing’s off the table,” McCain said. “I don’t want tax increases. But that doesn’t mean that anything is off the table.”
This is a position in stark contrast to his previous position:
“Sen. Obama will raise your taxes,” McCain said. “I won’t.”
In a March 16 interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, McCain said he would cut taxes where possible, and not raise them.
“Do you mean none?” Hannity asked.
“None,” McCain replied.
So much for that promise. John McCAin is no conservative. He is now saying that the possibility of a payroll tax increase is something that is “on the table.” This, along with amnesty for illegals, now appears to be an issue that McCain and President Obama agree on. President Obama has been trying to link McCain to President Bush, the “third Bush term” bumper stickers are already starting to appear. Yet it is President Obama who John McCain is most like.
I would like to think this is a surprise, but it isn’t. John McCain isn’t trusted by conservatives and this is another example of why. Between amnesty, McCain/Feingold, the gang of 14, his stance on the issue of global warming, and now this there is no conservative voter in the country who can honestly vote for John McCain on the basis of the issues. The only conservatives who vote for John McCain are people who are blindly towing the party line. If you think that John McCain is the “better of two evils”, don’t forget, ever, that John McCain spit on conservatives for the last eight years, that his how he made a name for himself. He is no conservative and he does not deserve ANY votes from conservatives.
This is the best that the Republican party could offer? This is who the Republican party nominated as their candidate? How did we ever let this happen? This man is the reincarnation of Bob Dole, the horrible Republican candidate from years gone by, and he will suffer the same fate.
John McCain is being linked to President Bush in an effort to bring him down, he is like President Bush alright. But he is more like President George H.W. Bush, you remember it vividly don’t you, “Read my lips, no new taxes.”
