That President Bush can call them back into some sort of emergency session. Since their leader has just flip flopped on this very issue, IMO that's the proper strategy to get something done at this point. It vastly ups the stakes from just a "revolt" by the minority.
JMR

The tax & spend drug war looks racist in the real world.

I was and still am infuriated by the non-coverage of this all...I knew by late afternoon early evening how this was going to be covered....I posted some of the coverage on the other thread yesterday as it was being reported along with other posters. 

It wasn't going to be...and the little that there was off it, they omitted, or spun the story...making in fun of the repubs ect...

What was even more maddening and disappointing for me though was C-SPAN...this is a number one issue, this affected C-SPAN to a point....and not a topic this morning...not at all...I am so sick of C-SPAN anymore...and they wonder why they have open lines for repubs to call in...many like me don't waste our time anymore...when they announce they have open lines for repubs, you can be sure that the dems will call on it...(granted some repubs get through, but not many)...I am very disappointed they did not have a congressman/woman on this morning talking about all of this...of all places C-SPAN should of.

Btw...I tried to get through....it may be the last time I do too.

I hope Komrade Pelosi and the dems pay for this in Nov., I hope the repubs do not quit what they are doing....makes me sick this isn't given the attention it deserves...intentionally....talk about the msm being arm in arm with the dem party, this proves it.

I beg the conservatives not to be discouraged and keep up the good fight...we need you to do exactly what you are doing....I thank you all. 

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

Maybe if the Democrats had pulled something like this, oh wait, is that you Rep Foley? Wall to wall covergae of a nothing.

Whereas now we have a dictator running the House and blank screens. You wonder why the drive-by media is going broke.

It's ridiculous that something so important is so cast aside. The MSM will not let America go down a road they don't deem Socialist enough and anything in the way of that is going to get little attention unless they deem that they are completely obligated to give it in order to retain their so-called credibility.

If the energy issue is a "crisis" then it should be top news no matter what "side" is doing what. But the MSM can't bring themselves up to that standard.

Take for instance the global warming topic. If the world's destruction is so soon to come IF we don't change something, then no one in their right mind who believes that could possibly let China and India off the hook, or fly all over the country without a high level of reason for it, or drive a gas guzzling CO2 producing vehicle, run their AC too high, use electricity uncontrollably, etc etc etc. It would make no sense if the world destruction is imminent, without drastic immediate change on personal levels, same as is preached to us on the national level.

This same applies to the energy crisis. It's very real, and in a very short timeframe, dependent on something taking place in the powder keg of the middle east, it could go from really bad to catastrophic. This we know could happen. We didn't learn from the oil embargo of the 1970's, apparently, and the Congressional boobs are ok with going on recess and possibly letting the session end having done nothing. We will all pay for their idiocy, only thru our wallet if we are lucky (nice luck huh?), but through our wallets and our national security and sovereignty if it were to turn in a manner that is very possible.

These people are absolutely toying with you and me, our future of our nation, for the sake of power and pacification of very far Left organizations that have little concern for America other than what they can do to be most powerful in it, and the MSM is part of it and promoting that agenda, to the detriment of all of us including those who are attempting to unknowingly, due to their ignorance, slit their very own throats by wanting that power at the expense of the nation in which they themselves live and are empowered.

need to get going regarding the walkout by the Dems on Our Country!

Bush needs to call the SOB's back into session and McCain and the Party need to start commercials reflecting the facts surrounding the lack of energy toward solving our energy needs.

All the above make me sick.

And the media???

If there was an honest media person, they'd report on how the Democrats attempted to lock them out of the Capital.

Oops. I used Honest and media in the same sentance. My oversite.

I must have blacked out?

Ah, you read the subject and say, "What in hell is this guy talking about?"  Anyway, the silver lining is the Republicans must be right on this issue.  If they were truly making fools of themselves the media would be convering it all over the place. The Democrats are in deep trouble on this issue.  Their leadership may not have comprehended just how much, but I bet the press is aware of it.  They know that, if they play up the vast differences on this issue, it has the potential of costing the Democrats both houses and the White House, in November.

You notice that Senator Obama went from his "put air in your tires and get a tune-up" to agreeing that we need "some" off-shore drilling.  We know he'll say anything to get elected, apparently he's not trying to save the planet like Ms. Pelosi.  I wanted McCain to leap on that energy plan of Obamas and offer the American public a deal, do what Obama says and, if you think that's enough, vote for him, if you believe we still need to drill, vote for McCain.  That would have been a good deal!

As an aside, the Palm Beach Post, part of the media wing of the Democratic Party, put this story in a corner on page 2 of the paper. The story, they chose to print, didn't give much indication that anything happened before the house adjourned and they all went home.  It must be nice to be soooooooooooo biased.  

Democrats: Stuck on Stupid since 2000.

We the people or the people who voted these MORONS into office and keep voting for them???

just sayin?

real estate in FL? get in touch!

President Bush ought to call a Press Conference first thing monday, and symbolically sign the energy bill that Pelosi-etal refused to allow to come to a vote.

Follow that with an order to reconvene to vote on the energy bill.

He won't.

Our loss.

The MSM didn't cover the revolt? Why, I'm, I'm, shocked! Just completely shocked! Usually we can depend on them to cover stories that would make the GOP look good and Democrats look bad. I just don't know what to think. (Okay all the sarcasm is out of my system today).

McNotObama '08

All ills in the world seem to get dumped at Exxon/Mobil's doorstep.

Pelosi's Congress, on the other hand, just took a summer vacation. No liberal bias here.  Right.  Meanwhile, when Exxon's quarterly profit figures came out, everyone's all over that.

Let's get some perspective on the rest of the Exxon story and let's put it in terms average hard-working Americans can understand. After subtracting all the costs of operating their business - you know, all those billions paid in salaries to employees, costs of exploration, maintenance/upkeep costs of oil drilling and drilling rigs/platforms - Exxon's quarterly income was roughly $44 billion.

Here's Exxon's pay stub:

Gross Income - $44 Billion

Tax Witholdings - $32.4 Billion

Net Income - $11.6 Billion

This very roughly translates into a 74% tax rate. Quite a take for Pelosi's gang. So, if a reasonably well off American family with an annual Gross Income of $52,000 paid at this same rate, this would mean, on each week's check of $1,000, they would pay $740 in all varieties of taxes and keep $260; try to make your mortgage payment on that.

Don't speak of Exxon's billions. Translate what's happening to them into terms low and middle income folk understand and relate to. What would happen if all you were left with, after all taxes were paid, is $260/week? How much could you save for a new house (oil drilling platform)?

By now it should just be taken for granted that the press will misrepresent Republican Congressional activities...if it represents them at all.  With that in mind, the RNC should simply make it the Party's business to maximize the impact of such effective gestures by using them (and Reid and Pelosi's unmitigated failure) ad nauseum in Congressional campaign spots to retake Congress.  Taking back Congress is a higher priority than electing McCain...and with Pelosi being the stretched face of the escalation and continuation of high gas prices (not to mention the stretched face of a Democrat-led Congress with a 9% approval rating), it really shouldn't be that hard to clip some of these first-term "blue dog" Pelosi drones and take back the majority.  Unfortunately, the RNC seems too dumb to capitalize.  Sad.

"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." -Ronald Reagan

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There is no viable third party right now, and no viable third party candidate.  It is either McCain or Obama. 

If you frequent this web-site and aren't a troll, then you must know that McCain is a hell of a lot closer to being a conservative (at least 50% conservative) than Obama - who was raised by Marxist wolves in Chicago.

This is the wrong time in history to be playing around with "sitting it out" to teach republicans a lesson.

If Obama is elected he will destroy this country.  He has already hinted at defunding the military and ceding policy to the U.N.

He will likely let Iran go nuclear and betray Israel (he has lots of close links to Palestinian activists).

McCain - or the end of the U.S as we know it.  The only choice.

 Two questions regarding Nancy (the Borg) Pelosi's planet-saving comment:

1.  Which planet?

2.  When will she return there?