Five Republican Senators are supposedly siding with the Democrats in order to get energy legislation passed in order to address the energy crisis.  This is bogus as all get-out.  The limitations are so restrictive basically nothing will be accomplushed.  No ANWR, no drilling ANYWHERE offshore within fifty miles, and only four states will even have the option to drill at all.

Don’t let this compromise fool ya.

Those Senators that need to be talked to are:

• Lindsey Graham
• John Thune
• Saxby Chambliss
• Bob Corker
• Johnny Isaakson

We don’t need a compromise that sends a message to OPEC that they’ve won, we give up, charge us what you want.

The compromise is useless, just stay on vacation if that’s the best you guys can offer.

Time for you guys to take a cue from John Shadegg and Ted Poe ( among others ), and do something radical.  Something like, maybe, threatening, and then doing, a filibuster if Reid proposes anything that doesn’t have a true reponse to the current crisis.  Obama, Reid, and Pelosi all have reasonable fantasies for the future, but it will be a hell of a lot harder getting there if we don’t get past this situation without sending all of our financial resources we have to OPEC that would fund their fantasies. 

It’s just that simple.

Bottom line, less government intervention is needed right now.

Nothing is more Republican than that.

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Posted on August 15th, 2008 by anthony
Filed under: US House of Representatives, US Senate, energy policy, philosophy