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It’s one thing to go around shouting about how Nancy and Harry and the Democrat leadership are failing this country in a time of economic crisis.  Now, I’ll show you exactly how it works:

House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey abruptly shut down his committee indefinitely rather than allow Republicans to offer an amendment to open more areas to drilling for new sources of oil and natural gas. Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid concur. According to the New York Times, she and Reid “appear intent on holding the line against calls to approve drilling in areas now off limits.”

Obey fears that the amendment, by drilling advocate Rep. John Peterson (R., Penn.), would win. As many as eight of the committee’s Democrats have supported similar amendments in the past, while only a couple of the committee’s Republicans (who represent well-heeled suburban districts) have stood with the environmental lobby.

Democratic defections, moreover, likely would spread beyond the Appropriations Committee. A careful analysis of previous floor votes on a wide array of energy production issues indicates that as many as 40 House Democrats would join the overwhelming majority of House Republicans in support of an agenda to increase American energy production dramatically…

Now, what has happened here is David Obey realizes that public demand for more drilling is prompting a movement within his own ranks.  So, rather than risk the chance of allowing a bill to come out of his committee, he’s just not scheduling a vote on anything that would allow debate and voting on expanding drilling.  Althought it states he’s doing this with Nancy Pelosi’s blessing, I am more likely to believe he’s doing this due to Nancy Pelosi’s instruction.

Now, although most people read news and see that nothing has changed, that’s not how the oil markets work.  They watch these committees.  By seeing that yet another attempt to expand drilling, which would increase production, has been stifled in this committee, they are guaranteed that nothing is going to be done for probably at least another six months.  Now, from this post on, let’s see what happens to the price of oil.  At the time of his post, crude was $125.49 and falling like a rock.

Now, if people really wanted to know what was going on and why, they’d realize very quickly how much damage Nancy and Harry have done to this country already by putting their personal politics above the welfare of the country.  The only thing that can fight against them is George Bush.

Do you think this country needs a president that would allow Nancy and Harry unfettered reins of all our laws and policies?  That’s what this November is about.

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