Over 70% of Americans favor off shore drilling, however, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), a staunch opponent of offshore drilling, has simply decreed that she will not allow a drilling vote to take place on the House floor. 

What's up with that?!?!  Instead of getting her panties bunched up, why not let issue stand on it's own merits.  Let the vote take place? 

She says that she is saving the planet!  Yes, she is single-handedly saving the world.  No, wait a minute Democrat Senator Harry Reid is her sidekick.  He too, is in "bed" with Pelosi on this issue.

When she became House Speaker she and the Democrat Majority said, "bills should generally come to the floor under a procedure that allows open, full and fair debate consisting of a full amendment process that grants the Minority the right to offer its alternatives."  Shouldn't drilling for oil be open for discussion too?  What is she and Reid afraid of?  Well, she is afraid that the will of the American people will trump her selfish desires.

She is being so unreasonable that small groups of Democrats have begun meeting informally with Republicans to try to reach a bipartisan response to higher oil prices, and opening up new areas to drilling is part of the mix. Leaders of both parties are openly pressing for drilling in the Arctic refuge and elsewhere.

Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) said, “Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are standing in the way of what the American people want.”

“I’m trying to save the planet; I’m trying to save the planet,” she says impatiently when questioned. “I will not have this debate trivialized by their excuse for their failed policy.”

“I respect the office that I hold,” she says. “And when you win the election, you win the majority, and what is the power of the speaker? To set the agenda, the power of recognition, and I am not giving the gavel away to anyone.”

Unfortunately, Pelosi is more interested in power than the American people!

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Boomer
Right Wing Squadron

According Rep. Jarrod Nadler, (D-NY), Obama told Democrats in a Washington D.C. closed door meeting that he would order his attorney general to search through White House executive orders and "immediately" eliminate those that "trample on liberty".

When Obama addressed reporters waiting outside the closed door meeting, he kept quiet about his plan.  He did say, however, that he would be campaigning to win the presidency and help "expand" Democratic majorities in the House and Senate.  This means he, Pelosi and Reid will be empire building.

"I am looking forward to collaborating with everyone here to win the election, but more importantly to collaborate with everybody here and also some like-minded Republicans to actually govern and to deliver on behalf of the American people," Obama said.

On behalf of the American people?  He is doing it on behalf on himself and the looney left.

What is Obama's definition of "liberty"?  Of course, as the most liberal Senator in Washington, he will pander to the left wing loons.  He will squash our national defense in the name of liberty.  He already said that he will scale back on weapons research and manufacturing.

He told the Europeans he wants to be a world citizen.  So I am sure his plan will make us pander to Germany, France and other European nations.  I would prefer that he concentrate on the United States and her citizens.
 
Frankly, his arrogance is nauseating.

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Boomer
Right Wing Squadron