{"id":2127,"date":"2008-07-24T07:23:01","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T11:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=2127"},"modified":"2008-07-24T07:23:01","modified_gmt":"2008-07-24T11:23:01","slug":"democrat-avoidance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=2127","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Avoidance"},"content":{"rendered":"

America is coming around to the conclusion many of us reached years ago as an answer to the energy shortage in this country – drill here, drill now. So what will the people’s representatives in Congress do to meet America’s realization? Since Congress is run by Democrats, it’ll avoid it’s responsibilities to the American people according to the Wall Street Journal<\/a>‘s editorial board;<\/p>\n

\u00a0Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and other liberal leaders on Capitol Hill are gripped by cold-sweat terror. If they permit a vote on offshore drilling, they know they will lose when Blue Dogs and oil-patch Democrats defect to the GOP position of increasing domestic energy production. So the last failsafe is to shut down Congress.<\/p>\n

Majority Leader Reid has decided that deliberation is too taxing for “the world’s greatest deliberative body.” This week he cut off serious energy amendments to his antispeculation bill. Then Senate Appropriations baron Robert Byrd abruptly canceled a bill markup planned for today where Republicans intended to press the issue. Mr. Byrd’s counterpart in the House, David Obey, is enforcing a similar lockdown. Speaker Pelosi says she won’t allow even a debate before Congress’s August recess begins in eight days.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When Democrats have an chance to actually help to solve a real problem, they’d rather Americans just suffer for cheap political gains.<\/p>\n

If Barack Obama were truly concerned about jobs and the working man, he’d lay aside his political allegiances and call for a new energy policy that takes us away from the last thirty years of failed politics and policy and lead America in a new direction…towards prosperity and away from pure political rhetoric. But, I’m not holding my breath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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