I AM FURIOUS. I mean spitting mad, fire coming out my ears, laser beams shooting from my eyeballs ANGRY!
Nancy Pelosi has *literally* turned off the lights and shut down debate on the subject of allowing ANY domestic drilling, and Congress is adjourned for vacation!
She has ordered the A/C shut off, C-SPAN to leave, etc...And has literally left her GOP counterparts IN THE DARK to continue discussing the issue ALONE. Dennis Kucinich (bless his heart) was the only one who hung around for a while, and even he left.
I don't care who you are or what your politics are or how you feel about drilling on the outer continental shelf as a means of alieviating the energy crisis, THIS IS NOT DEMOCRACY! THIS IS NOT LEADERSHIP!!! This is BULLSHIT, that's what it is!
The people have a right to have their interests represented dammit! We have an interest in finding a solution to this problem in the short run, not JUST a long-term alt. fuel solution, but a short-term "bridge" as it were so we have enough money and time to AFFORD to find that long-term solution g-dammit!
You know why she shut it down don't you? Because there are moderate Dems who SUPPORT DOMESTIC DRILLING IN SOME FORM OR OTHER!! Hers is NOT the majority opinion AND SHE KNOWS IT. Same with Harry Reid! They won't even allow a VOTE on ANY of the proposals, even those put forth by these moderate Dems or co-sponsored by them!!!
That is unconscionable! That is not doing their job! I am LIVID! This is no better than playing schoolyard bully! "Nana nana POO POO, we're taking our toys and going home b/c you have the biggest kids on YOUR team and we can't win with our scraggly lot, but we own the ball and bat, so EFF YOU! Have fun playing air-ball with yourselves! :P "
No joke, that's exactly what she did!
And why? I'll tell you the OTHER reason why...Because she is protecting her candidate for Prexy! She knows he has said countless times on the stump that he opposes drilling, and she didn't want him to be forced to vote "No" to most proposals put forth b/c all involve SOME drilling (albeit in many cases only as a last resort if prices reach above a certain floor, some of those numbers were pretty high too). She knows the avg. voter won't parse it out and will just see that he voted "No" to drilling, OR if he voted yes on one proposed amendment but not others, it would count as a generic "Yes" vote which would make him a "flip-flopper" in the eyes of some. So rather than LEAD the Congress, she's circled the wagons to protect him from having to do HIS primary job in the Senate. Even if he didn't vote it would look like he didn't step up to lead on one of the most important issues facing us today while he's still representing the people of IL, and at least they would be pissed.
And even though word this week is he *would* support some form of drilling as a "compromise," that's not a compromise the Speaker wants him to make! The whole thing disgusts me UTTERLY.
In the interest of full disclosure, I actually SUPPORT drilling now that I've learned that (contrary to popular myth) the drilling companies have said they could be pulling crude out of some of these areas in ONE YEAR if allowed to drill there. Brazil is drilling like CRAZY off their coastline and they're not worried about their beaches, and we can sit and boo hoo all day long about fossil fuels, but I think we can all agree that as yucky as they are, we are gonna need them for at least the next decade...Do we want that to be a decade in which we are STILL totally beholden to people who hate our living guts and want to kill us (and who'll use the money we spend on their oil to buy explosives and weapons and fake IDs with which to do so)???? DO WE???
I sure as shit don't!
The FACT is that the Congress (and Obama btw) is NOT with the American mainstream on this. MOST Americans support some drilling, esp. if the price hits a certain level. Pretty hard to "solve" the economy (whatever that means, his words, not mine) without making it easier for people to afford FUEL--be they individuals or businesses. Good luck with that buddy!
I can almost GUARANTEE that we will be drilling within the year ANYWAY, but they'll wait until AFTER Obama is elected for him to flip that flop, you watch! Only by then many Americans will have lost their jobs, businesses will have gone under and it will take that much LONGER to get the oil out of the ground b/c we delayed. And if I'm wrong about this, well then, woe is us b/c we'll be in for a heaping helping of $hit from the oil producing nations. Won't they just LURVE to take advantage of a new, untested, neophite in foreign policy disputes President when we need their product most! Oh I bet they are just SALIVATING at the very thought!
If Pelosi and her fellow bullies really want to HELP Obama, they'd help him by making sure IF he gets elected that he can effectively LEAD. Not having to worry *as much* about dependence on foreign oil would be a giant leap in that general direction.
But hey, if they'd rather just make sure he gets elected, if that's the brass ring and being a successful leader ain't worth diddly (which it seems is their attitude given their behavior tonight), keep at it botox face!
Sorry I'm sooooo worked up but nothing boils my blood more than paying a-holes to work for me and having them NOT DO THEIR JOBS. Go ahead, vote in ways I don't like, have at it, but f-ucking VOTE!!! Don't be gutless wussies and go home b/c you think your POV will LOSE or your candidate will have some 'splainin to do after-the-fact.
AAAARGH!
A$$HOLES!
(breathe Deb, breathe.....)
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