"When the Revolution comes..."
So, it seems some Republicans in the House of Representatives finally grew some backbone. They were scheduled to go on vacation, but seizing on the high gas prices and the need for a new energy policy with more oil drilling, more coal, more nuclear and other measures... they decided they wanted to work through the break to discuss it. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi decided that since she is a hard core leftist and she doesn't agree with any of that... that not only was the House going on vacation anyway, but that she was going to personally order the cameras and lights in the House turned off. Wow. Is this the new, open, democracy that Pelosi promised when she came into office.
The Republican Revolution is supposed to continue today. Obama now is giving a speech saying he would agree with new oil drilling, more coal, and more nuclear... but is also proposing hundreds of billions of dollars in new spending to create "green" technology and Obama is also trashing the oil companies and somehow blaming them for our energy infrastructure being old. But... at least he moved a little on this oil, coal, nuclear issues (at least for today).
The Republicans need to keep hammering this and hammering this, and hammering it. Oh my God. Hold on. Obama just said we can find every available source of oil in this country and it would only be enough for a few years. What is he talking about?! There is enough oil in the world for hundreds of years. This is the kinda stuff Obama says that makes him look like an idiot. He wants to tax the oil companies to pay for hundreds of billions of dollars in new spending. The federal government already makes billions off of the sale of oil through taxes already. He has proposed using oil money for about 15 different things. New schools, a tax refund, new green technology, new roads, new cars... it can't possibly pay for all of that stuff. And not only that, but how are new taxes going to decrease gas prices? And where do oil companies get their money from anyway? US! So who is really going to be paying these new taxes? US. This is just government populism at its worst.
Anyway, the Republicans need to hammer this. They need to make this part of the national election so they can tie the Presidential election to the Congressional elections. This is a losing issue for the Democrats in Congress. Republicans had better NOT lose their testicular fortitude on this one.
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