Don’t Let the Door Hit You On the Way Out Nancy

Anyone care to explain to me why Nancy Pelosi and her cadre of Democrat misfits (who we, unfortunately have to refer to as the majority in the House) would leave Congress for a paid five week vacation without doing anything regarding the energy crisis? But wait! Nancy and misfits may have left, the Republicans have stayed behind even though Nancy turned out the lights.

Jeff Emanuel reports from Red State:

Hoping that the nation’s energy problem will go away if they just go home and ignore it for a few weeks, the Democrats have voted to adjourn early, turned off the lights in the lower chamber, and are trying to lock the doors to make sure no business can be done until September.

The fly in the ointment? Fifteen or so House Republicans, led by Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH), refused to leave the floor, where — after the Democrats turned off the lights and the microphones — they continuied talking gas prices and energy solutions, which the House was scheduled to do this afternoon already before Pelosi, et al declared an early adjournment..

Pelosi is currently trying to have the press gallery cleared and the doors locked, but Rep. Bunt, Shadegg, and Hoekstra have been taking turns remaining with media in the gallery in order to keep it open.

At one point, Shadegg “figured out how to get the lights and microphones back on,” a House insider tells me — but they have since been shut off once again.

It seems as if Republicans are the only ones taking this issue seriously and Hoosiers have been up front and center at working towards solutions.  Congressmen Buyer and Burton have legislation working towards drilling and other methods of energy independence and relief, Congressman Pence is urging a special session to deal with the mess Democrats have left behind to ignore while on a taxpayer funded vacation and Republican candidates for Congress Luke Puckett, Mike Sodrel and Greg Goode have actually gone to ANWR to see for themselves the truth behind domestic drilling.   What are the Democrats doing?

Taking a vacation.

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The Hill has a piece on the 20 GOP holdouts still on the House Floor discussing energy. Speaker Pelosi thru her Information Minister Baghdad Bob (so THAT’S where he went….)  had this to say to The Hill:

“Republicans are too scared to go home to face their constituents after voting against bills to force Big Oil companies to use it or lose it, demand that the president free our oil from the government stockpile and crack down on speculators. In a week where Exxon Mobil made the largest quarterly profits by a U.S. corporation, Republicans are staying in Washington to argue that Big Oil deserves more taxpayer lands. That sums up their priorities.”

Cracking down on speculators? Oh yes because dealing directly with OPEC is a good idea. Worked for us in 1973 and 1979. The SPR is for that reason - give us a supply when OPEC decides to turn off the spigot. OPEC doesn’t care they can sell the oil just as easily to India and China while imposing an embargo upon us. Of course with our own supply, we could tell OPEC to go %$#& themselves.

The Democrats won’t rest until the oil companies are under their control and fuel prices remain out of control.