There is a growing number of them.
Hey folks,
Happy Sunday to you. You know I have been fighting for the House and Senate to get off their, morals, and get the ban lifted so we can Drill Here, Drill Now, and Pay Less. I have been sharing with you more and more information that completely discounts and discredits the false information that is the Liberal and Envionut talking points. I have shared with you the facts by those who KNOW the truth. Like Energy Tomorrow.
So what do I see Friday in the Wall Street Journal? THIS!
POTOMAC WATCH
By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL
Republican Energy Fumble
August 8, 2008; Page A13
It seems that according to the WSJ, five Republicans have completely sold out to the Libs and the Evionuts.
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.
That's because the plan is a Democratic giveaway. New production on offshore federal lands is left to state legislatures, and then in only four coastal states. The regulatory hurdles are huge. And the bill bars drilling within 50 miles of the coast -- putting off limits some of the most productive areas. Alaska's oil-rich Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is still a no-go.
Now follow this closely folks.
The highlight is instead $84 billion in tax credits, subsidies and federal handouts for alternative fuels and renewables. The Gang of 10 intends to pay for all this in part by raising taxes on . . . oil companies! The Sierra Club couldn't have penned it better. And so the Republican Five has potentially given antidrilling Democrats the political cover they need to neutralize energy through November.
This is absolutely absurd. She is right. The Envionuts could NOT have written this better.
Sen. Obama was thrilled. He quickly praised the Gang's bipartisan spirit, and warmed up to a possible compromise. Of course, he means removing even the token drilling provisions now in the bill. But he's only too happy for the focus to remain on the Gang's efforts, and in particular on the five Republicans providing his party its fig leaf.
Equally gleeful was Louisiana's Mary Landrieu, the Senate's most vulnerable Democrat. She had been sweating the energy debate, especially after her vote against more oil-shale production -- a position her Republican opponent, John Kennedy, had used against her to great effect. Yet there she was, chummily standing with the Gang of 10 and boasting that she is working with "five Republicans" to "lower prices at the pump by increasing offshore drilling here at home."
But it will NOT increase drilling. Not one bit. This Bill takes away ANY Federal control, turning it over to a few Politicians in individual states. Only FOUR states at that. In states that we cannot drill within 50 miles of the coasts. It says that the Envionuts have a say on when , how, and where we drill, and they could in essence, tie up the Oil Companies in courts for years. This is a Liberal Handout by the Five Republicans. It will not increase domestic drilling, nor do anything but give these five the right to say they are attempting to fix the problem. It's show. That's it. No real solutions.
These five Republicans, just in case you missed who they are, they are:
Sen. Saxby Chambliss of Georgia,
Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina,
Sen. John Thune of South Dakota,
Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee
Sen. Johnny Isakson of Georgia
did NOT get the Democrats to come over to our side on this. They did not convert these Democrats to the way of thinking that is pretty consistent with 80 percent of Americans. They DID hand them cover. They did shield them until after the election. They did SELL OUT.
Now coming up in part two, Sen. Chambliss must have been listing to the Rush Limbaugh show. Either that, or someone told him that he was being pretty much tore up by Rush and his callers because of this move on his part, so he called the Rush Limbaugh Program to defend himself.
Peter
Sources:
WSJ - Republican Energy Fumble
IER {PDF File} Flaws in the “Gang of Ten” Energy Proposal
Hey folks,
Happy Sunday to you. You know I have been fighting for the House and Senate to get off their, morals, and get the ban lifted so we can Drill Here, Drill Now, and Pay Less. I have been sharing with you more and more information that completely discounts and discredits the false information that is the Liberal and Envionut talking points. I have shared with you the facts by those who KNOW the truth. Like Energy Tomorrow.
So what do I see Friday in the Wall Street Journal? THIS!POTOMAC WATCH
By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL
Republican Energy Fumble
August 8, 2008; Page A13
It seems that according to the WSJ, five Republicans have completely sold out to the Libs and the Evionuts.
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.
That's because the plan is a Democratic giveaway. New production on offshore federal lands is left to state legislatures, and then in only four coastal states. The regulatory hurdles are huge. And the bill bars drilling within 50 miles of the coast -- putting off limits some of the most productive areas. Alaska's oil-rich Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is still a no-go.
Now follow this closely folks.
The highlight is instead $84 billion in tax credits, subsidies and federal handouts for alternative fuels and renewables. The Gang of 10 intends to pay for all this in part by raising taxes on . . . oil companies! The Sierra Club couldn't have penned it better. And so the Republican Five has potentially given antidrilling Democrats the political cover they need to neutralize energy through November.
This is absolutely absurd. She is right. The Envionuts could NOT have written this better.
Sen. Obama was thrilled. He quickly praised the Gang's bipartisan spirit, and warmed up to a possible compromise. Of course, he means removing even the token drilling provisions now in the bill. But he's only too happy for the focus to remain on the Gang's efforts, and in particular on the five Republicans providing his party its fig leaf.
Equally gleeful was Louisiana's Mary Landrieu, the Senate's most vulnerable Democrat. She had been sweating the energy debate, especially after her vote against more oil-shale production -- a position her Republican opponent, John Kennedy, had used against her to great effect. Yet there she was, chummily standing with the Gang of 10 and boasting that she is working with "five Republicans" to "lower prices at the pump by increasing offshore drilling here at home."
But it will NOT increase drilling. Not one bit. This Bill takes away ANY Federal control, turning it over to a few Politicians in individual states. Only FOUR states at that. In states that we cannot drill within 50 miles of the coasts. It says that the Envionuts have a say on when , how, and where we drill, and they could in essence, tie up the Oil Companies in courts for years. This is a Liberal Handout by the Five Republicans. It will not increase domestic drilling, nor do anything but give these five the right to say they are attempting to fix the problem. It's show. That's it. No real solutions.
These five Republicans, just in case you missed who they are, they are:
Sen. Saxby Chambliss of Georgia,
Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina,
Sen. John Thune of South Dakota,
Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee
Sen. Johnny Isakson of Georgia
did NOT get the Democrats to come over to our side on this. They did not convert these Democrats to the way of thinking that is pretty consistent with 80 percent of Americans. They DID hand them cover. They did shield them until after the election. They did SELL OUT.
Now coming up in part two, Sen. Chambliss must have been listing to the Rush Limbaugh show. Either that, or someone told him that he was being pretty much tore up by Rush and his callers because of this move on his part, so he called the Rush Limbaugh Program to defend himself.
Peter
Sources:
WSJ - Republican Energy Fumble
IER {PDF File} Flaws in the “Gang of Ten” Energy Proposal
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