It’s promoted as the The Solution to whatever currently ails us, but actually makes us worse off.

There’s a reason why the majority of Americans would prefer that Congress take a 52-week vacation each year.

this is becoming really a new sense of “radicalism” on the part of the reps/cons.

We should have been doing this since Day 1… aggresive in telling our case to the people instead of just keeping the good ideas within ourselves.

Drill Oil Now! Drill Here!

And all Americans sign in!

that would be just enough money to pay off my 2005 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon, then I could finally afford a lift kit and some new tires and maybe even some rockers. Maybe we should rethink this Erick…daddy needs a rock crawler…;^)

the issue has been framed that drilling is no solution because it will take too long. Yet, there is nothing said about how long alternative energy options would take to come on-line and be integrated into our infrastructure.

How about: Short term (10 years) elimination of environmental roadblocks, drill for oil now, build nuclear plants, and develop better solar/wind/battery/automobile technology… all with significant tax advantages and no subsidies.

It’s not about some “Apollo Program,” just about freeing business to work. Geez, I’m sounding like a Republican!

He doesn’t know how they are going to pay for their energy compromise yet in their view it’s a good deal because something is better than nothing?

What an idiot.

And I don’t say that without citing Chambliss for the otherwise good voting record on most issues.

What puts me in a rage (I don’t use that word lightly), is that even if he votes to lift the moratorium on oil drilling it won’t matter if this horrid Gang of 10 deal passes.

It is so dishonest to say “I’ll still vote to lift the moratorium,” when you won’t get any votes from the other side and you KNOW it will go down to defeat because you already GAVE AWAY your bargaining power on a stupid bill!!!

These kinds of semantic stunts by turn-coats on our side makes me want to vomit! They can claim “I voted the way you wanted me to vote” but it’s a meaningless vote because they knew that the vote they cast was after the fact and would give them political cover.

Idiots and cowards!

U.S. House GOP – Supporting the cause of Conservatism and their voters’ wishes.

U.S. Senate – Screwing up everything from judges to oil exploration for the last 10 plus years.

Can we just get rid of the Senate?

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has to do it.

That is holding onto the pure environmentalist (no logging, no nuclear, no carbon, just collective living off the land using solar and wind types) in the face of massive price increases for one of the most inelastic commodities we have.

Obama said it best, he would have preferred that oil prices not rise so quickly as to stir up the rank and file — have to get to work– Americans and set them thinking about a world with ample (nuclear – electrical for fixed site needs, oil for non-fixed sites like cars, trucks, ships, and planes).

Now Pelosi must balance on the edge or a drill or no drill position. She will end up with Drill but regulate and tax. And she will throw the tax bone to the environmentalists and more research into the perfect battery, the perfect energy storage system, and the perfect transmission line.

The “real” problem here is people who just won’t change their lifestyle to accommodate the survival of the planet. Some of the absolute worst offenders are those people who buy “carbon credits”. They take advantage of people who are actively “doing something” about the energy/climate change issues on a personal level and neutralize their efforts.

So, how about a tax on carbon credits. Since the people who buy the darn things are basically rich polluters – no matter what their publicists say – we should be making the purchase of carbon credits very punitive in order to get them to reduce their overall consumption and the money could be used to help offset the construction of alternative energy projects like Cape Wind.

Since the people who take advantage of carbon credits are, by their very nature, selfish pigs and fall into the “rich” category, I would suggest a tax of 1000%. In other words, when a fat guy uses his private jet to help destroy the planet and spends $1,000 on carbon credits to offset his selfish lifestyle, he would pay a tax of $10,000.

Another idea for a new I could support would be a tax on advertising that attacks alternative energy projects. So let’s say an organization wants to stop the Cape Wind project because it might kill a bird or interfere with their view, they spend $1,000 on advertising, they pay a tax of $10,000. And we could roll in the supertax on legal fees that are incurred to stop energy projects, including nuclear. Write a check for $1,000 to a lawyer, pony up $10,000 in taxes.

And a fun amendment would be to direct those tax penalties directly to the alternative energy project that the contributor/lawyer is trying to stop.

So Algore, John Edwards, Michael Moore, Babs, Kennedy/Kerry, etal, get your checkbooks out. We’re coming for YOU!