Day 19
Posted by brvanlanen on August 27, 2008
Well, well, well 19 days have passed since Congress recessed. Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats just don’t get it. While in Denver for the Democratic National Convention Nancy held a news conference to unveil another energy plan. Republicans quickly pounced.
The Democrats’ energy record is one of empty rhetoric and broken promises, and that’s why they have no credibility with the American people. Energy independence was a signature campaign promise of Speaker Pelosi and House Democrats in 2006, yet their chronic negligence in addressing record gas prices continue to have devastating consequences for working families, small businesses, seniors and schools. For proof look no further than the fact that Speaker Pelosi adjourned Congress for a five-week break instead of allowing a simple up-or-down vote on the American Energy Act to reduce fuel costs.
“House Republicans are offering an ‘all of the above’ strategy to lower gasoline prices by increasing production of American energy, promoting more conservation and efficiency, and encouraging the use of more alternative and renewable fuels. The American people support our plan, and they have every right to demand that Speaker Pelosi allow a vote on our energy reforms. They deserve more than yet another Democratic scheme that will do nothing to lower gasoline prices or reduce home heating costs. House Republicans’ unprecedented nationwide gas prices protest entered its fourth full week yesterday, and we will not relent until we secure a vote on our ‘all of the above’ energy reforms on behalf of working families and small businesses who need our help.”
“Clearly, Denver’s rarefied air has gone straight to Democrat leaders’ heads for thinking that their ‘new’ energy plan is anything more than a rehash of the broken promises and failed policies of the past.
“Here we are exactly 600 days removed from the beginning of this Congress, and only now are Democrat leaders getting around to proposing a so-called ‘comprehensive’ plan for energy independence. Maybe one of the reasons for this failure of leadership is because, as we have learned in recent days, Speaker Pelosi does not even know that natural gas is a fossil fuel, or that it will require increased exploration of American natural gas to make use of it. Whatever the case may be, it is disconcerting that Democrat leaders continue to pat each other on the back for a job not done while American families are struggling.
“Moreover, Democrats have demonstrated their glaring lack of credibility on this issue in ironic fashion by proposing an energy plan in the very same city where for months they had been getting their gas tax-free while Coloradans were scrimping and saving to pay their fair share.”
“The Democrat energy plan is to ‘drive small cars and wait for the wind’ … Well this reminds me of the people of France who were starving, and the Queen was told that the people had no bread, and her response was to say ‘let them eat cake’”
Americans want action while Nancy and her friends prefer to be on a five week vacation. In other words these so-called politicians prefer to ignore the will of the people instead of actually doing what they were elected to do.
