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In order to understand the willful incompetence of our current Congressional "leadership" one must "cowboy up" and dig into the minutiae of tactics. Don't try this at home unless you deal daily in manure - er, minutiae:

We see from this example a House Speaker and other "leaders" in Congress scared to death that real solutions might be offered to increase world energy supply simply by allowing drilling where geologists know there is oil. The Democratic "leadership" decided to try raiding the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) in order to provide a short-term answer to our long-term problem. This is insanity. The SPR is for interruptions to our supply. We currently have no such interruption, we just have to pay more to ensure we get oil.

In a valid measurement of how incompetent and desperate Democrats can be in the face of an obvious election-year pander, at least one Democrat argued that high prices at the pump actually was a strategic problem and should be addressed by opening SPR! I wonder if this Congressman saw a new poll in his district? Yeah, we know how "strategic" you are trying to be, Mr. Congressman...

Unfortunately, just look at the headline in the article:

GOP kills effort to release oil from US stockpile

That headline is inherently misleading. The headline should have been:

Democrats Block Drilling For More Oil

The reason this should have been the headline is because our Democratic "leadership" in Congress used a parliamentary tactic to keep the bill from having amendments come up for a vote:

Democratic leaders had brought the proposal up for debate under rules requiring a two-thirds vote to pass. But passing the bill by just a majority would have meant allowing Republicans to force a vote on new offshore drilling leases. "They're hiding from a vote," said GOP leader John Boehner of Ohio. "They're scared to death to allow us to ... force their members to vote on drilling."

I'll be the first to admit that the Republican "leadership" was not much better when it came to policy votes in the 109th Congress. Had they performed better than the tone-deaf sacking of budgetary restraint and incredibly self-serving pork-barrel spending, they might not have been sacked themselves. Oh well, someday we might learn a thing or two regarding whom we elect - I'm not holding my breath...

In any case, Congress under Speaker Pelosi has turned a similar deaf ear upon the millions of Americans who have watched as gasoline has increased in price by about 100% from the time they took office in January 2007. Given her reluctance to expand our production of known oil reserves which will result in more future supply to meet daily and growing worldwide demand, I submit this as evidence that your Congress under Democratic control is not serious in their "efforts" to alleviate the burden on your wallet.

Are you suprised? You shouldn't be. Remember, the Sierra Club for Greed and Earth First! - among the many other environmental goups (not to mention Archbishop Algore) - is in the Democratic lobbying business. Every Democrat in Congress is getting campaign funds from them. They oppose increasing oil production, which means their lapdogs in this Congress will never allow new drilling where the oil actually is...unless you say you will vote them out in November.

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