Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and the Democrats adjourned the House and turned off the lights and killed the microphones, but Republicans are still on the floor talking gas prices.
Minority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) and other GOP leaders opposed the motion to adjourn the House, arguing that Pelosi’s refusal to schedule a vote allowing offshore drilling is hurting the American economy. They have refused to leave the floor after the adjournment motion passed at 11:23 a.m., and they are busy bashing Pelosi and her fellow Democrats for leaving town for the August recess.
At one point, the lights went off in the House and the microphones were turned off in the chamber, meaning Republicans were talking in the dark. But as Rep. John Shadegg (R-Ariz..) was speaking, the lights went back on and the microphones were turned on shortly afterward.
-Because to Speaker Pelosi, this literally is the line in the sand;
-In order to shield Obama, as a Senator and, moreover, The Anointed PrezzyCandy, from being seen to cast an obvious NO vote on drilling.
Pelosi is even stupider (that ought to be a word, especially when talking politics these days) than I thought if she thinks this issue will fade away, what it’s going to do is jump up and bite Obama on the ass when his campaign least needs it, pander to the 5% of the country that are enviro-nutjobs at the expense of the country as a whole? that’s not the actions of a smart politician in an election year.
Do I detect a testicle in DC?
I want those raisins to grow into the size of grapefruits!
Maybe the GOP has figured out why it lost in 06 and has decided to correct the situation. Good for them.
Don’t forget, Pelosi is “saving this planet” HA!!!! Glad to see the GOP is standing up finally.. I would hate for the Congress to miss out on it’s month long break!!! Get to work and do what we pay you for!!!!!
A spine may have been spotted in DC! Once thought extinct, there were reports of numerous sightings in and around the Capitol building!
VW
Where was the GOP when they held the majority?? In the House and Sentate??
Testicles?? Maybe from a few, but at this time, too little and too late…
Amazing what happens when you become ‘Democrat Lite’: you are soon seen as no better than your opposition. And your base starts to walk away. And the general public, too.
Remember, which Congresses helped keep ANWR and OCS drilling impossible? The Republican Congresses of the 1990’s.
Strange that now both Presidential candidates are needing to tack to the right on Energy?
I like the wag who said: John McCain is the best Democrat running…. Democrat Lite, indeed.
And, of course, the inevitable Obama spatula action.