Dem Candidates May Pay For Skipping Town

Posted by: Matt Lewis 

There are major troubles that loom over the horizon for the Democrats. Gas prices have skyrocketed and at the most crucial of times the Dems have decided to go AWOL.House Republicans are attempting to continue the debate, while Democrats are attempting to dilute the truth and suppress [...]

Here’s the floor speech of GOP Rep. David Davis of Tennessee (video here):
“We need an American energy plan and we need it now. The American people are hurting, young families are hurting, senior adults are hurting, small businesses are hurting, Vern from Jefferson County, Tennessee is hurting.
“Vern is an Iraq War veteran. Vern has to [...]

Dems leave on vacation, GOP revolts
Jim Brown - OneNewsNow - 8/2/2008 
A group of House Republicans staged a revolt after Democrats passed a non-debatable adjournment resolution to shut down the chamber for a five-week vacation.  
Even though lights, microphones and C-SPAN cameras were turned off, about 40 Republicans took to the House floor and railed against [...]

Rather than do the nation’s business Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, and Senator Harry ‘Hands Up’ Reid, Senate Majority Leader. lock up Congress and go on vacation!
Not being content to just go away, Pelosi had the audacity to order the guatds of the House eject any press members in an attempt to deny any reporting [...]

Drilling and Blissful Ignorance
Charles Krauthammer
Friday, August 01, 2008
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi opposes lifting the moratorium on drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and on the Outer Continental Shelf. She won’t even allow it to come to a vote. With $4 gas having massively shifted public opinion in favor of domestic production, she [...]

Submitted by: Elaine Karsner
It’s Mea Culpa Week
By Michael Reagan
August 1, 2008 
Like altar boys who used to strike their breasts and mutter “mea culpa” (”through my fault”) during the beginning of the Latin mass while confessing that they had sinned, Democrats are in full confessional mode, apologizing for every real or imagined sin against a [...]

Submitted by: Elaine Karsner
Pork king’s troubles should spur reform

Mobile Register - Friday, August 01, 2008

UNTIL TUESDAY, Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens was known mainly for his skill in bringing home the bacon for his state.
But he achieved a new type of notoriety when a federal grand jury indicted him on charges of making false statements to [...]

Democrats under the guidance of Nancy Pelosi ignore their promises!
The Republican-led Congress conducted bipartisan hearings and investigations following scandals at Enron, WorldCom, and other corporate entities during the early part of this decade, in part to address public concerns about the possibility of unethical links between high-powered lawmakers and the powerful interests they were charged [...]

Environmentalists’ Hold on Congress
Walter E. Williams
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Let’s face it. The average individual American has little or no clout with Congress and can be safely ignored. But it’s a different story with groups such as Environmental Defense Fund, Sierra Club and The Nature Conservancy. When they speak, Congress listens. Unlike the average American, they [...]

Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House uses doublespeak as she seeks to assuage her Environmentalist contributors/voters.
WASHINGTON —  Congressional Republicans are stepping up attacks on Democrats who are blocking votes on oil drilling legislation, homing in on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who was quoted saying that she wants “to save the planet.”
Pelosi, in an interview published Tuesday [...]