so moderate Repubs can sell the farm out from under us.

Thanks, Gramnesty. Remind me to send money to your next primary opponent.

so moderate Repubs can sell the farm out from under us.

Thanks, Gramnesty. Remind me to send money to your next primary opponent.

So moderate Repubs can sell the farm out from under conservatives (and America).

Thanks a bunch, Gramnesty. Remind me to send lots and lots of money to your next primary opponent.

So moderate Repubs can sell the farm out from under conservatives (and America).

Thanks a bunch, Gramnesty. Remind me to send lots and lots of money to your next primary opponent.

with these 5 senators. They have undercut the best issue we had for November. In the process they have helped Harry Reid, Obama and Mary Landrieu who is facing a tough election this year in Louisiana.

So moderate Repubs can sell the farm out from under conservatives (and America).

Thanks a bunch, Gramnesty. Remind me to send lots and lots of money to your next primary opponent.

So moderate Repubs can sell the farm out from under conservatives (and America).

Thanks a bunch, Gramnesty. Remind me to send lots and lots of money to your next primary opponent.

about this. These 5 bozos have just undercut the best issue the republicans had in the upcoming election and at the same time have helped Harry Reid, Obama and Mary Landrieu, who is facing a tough election.

So moderate Repubs can sell the farm out from under conservatives (and America).

Thanks a bunch, Gramnesty. Remind me to send lots and lots of money to your next primary opponent.

Oh, and by the way, Gramnesty – STUPID, MORON, SELLOUT, RINO, JERKBAG, WUSS, LIAR. I’ve probably left a few out, but this is, in general, what you are. Just go with it and embrace your inner TWIT.

with these 5 bozos. They have undercut the best issue we had for the upcoming election.

So moderate Repubs can sell the farm out from under conservatives (and America).

Thanks a bunch, Gramnesty. Remind me to send lots and lots of money to your next primary opponent.

Oh, and by the way, Gramnesty – STUPID, MORON, SELLOUT, RINO, JERKBAG, WUSS, LIAR. I’ve probably left a few out, but this is, in general, what you are. Just go with it and embrace your inner TWIT.

So moderate Repubs can sell the farm out from under conservatives (and America).

Thanks a bunch, Gramnesty. Remind me to send lots and lots of money to your next primary opponent.

Oh, and by the way, Gramnesty – STUPID, MORON, SELLOUT, RINO, JERKBAG, WUSS, LIAR. I’ve probably left a few out, but this is, in general, what you are. Just go with it and embrace your inner TWIT.

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This is why Democrats never lose even when Republicans win. Lindsey and company are always there to cut the legs out from under any Conservative progress! The only thing keeping this from being the gang of 14 all over again as that one of their club is the Republican nominee and the other three are probably up for re-election this year!

Take an issue that cuts 75% against the Dummycrat Party and little Lord Fauntleroy,(as I’ve heard Graham called), sabotages Republican efforts and bails them out to prove how magnanimous he can be! Way to freaking go AXXHOLE!!!

can we start a grass roots effort to get a recall petition/special election going on.

I am not sure if election rules allow…is this a state by state rule?

Just primary them next time if you don’t like them, I say.

I do think there’s justice in McCain getting undercut this way though, as unfortunately timed and bad for the country as it is.

Aggregate annual production for the states represented by the 5 senators:

1,718 barrels

That’s it.

You could fit the cumulative amount of oil and gas knowledge between these five guys in a thimble.

And OMG, PETA?! Who in the hell thinks it is a good idea to give them a seat at the table.

Please, please, please let’s make Mary Landrieu take a position on this POS.

but since Kevin is a Contributor, it isn’t possible. I had to find it in the “member diaries” list. It should be on the front page in the “recommended diaries” list.

These five linguini-spined Senators have again compromised where no compromise was necessary. We have the ‘Crats by the balls on the topic of drilling–there is no need to loosen our grip.

Saxby Chambliss replied to the firestorm on Rush this morning. He tried to tell us day is night and the proposal doesn’t actually do what it clearly does. I hate to say it, but there’s a reason Southerners sound dumb. Some of them are–and Saxby is stuck on stupid in this instance. If there really is a good reason for this compromise, he talked for 5 minutes or more and never explained to me (or Rush) what it is.

My interpretation of his comments: Barbra Streisand.

I don’t know what these 5 ‘Pubs and 5 ‘Crats think they can do for the energy situation, but they’ve thrown a monkey wrench into the best issue we have to separate us from the pinko commie Libs. Even if it comes to nothing, the ‘Crats can now say, “We tried to compromise with you, but the right-wing hard-liners wouldn’t meet us halfway.”

I am sick of them–these twitterpated Senators make McCain look like a genius, and Obama has to be laughing into his pancakes.

McCain, John Boehner, and Newt need to get the news to them that they aren’t part of the solution, THEY’RE PART OF THE PROBLEM.

Is it so freaking hard to let us actually win an election? How about letting the will of the people be heard for once, instead of imposing “the congeniality of the Senate” onto policy decisions?

We don’t want meally mouthed compromises that allows exploration off the coast of 4 states if they approve, along with every leftist anti-american group in the country bent on the surrender of our liberty and prosperity

THEY DIDN’T ELECT YOU, WE DID

And Chambliss and Thune, you two in particular KNOW BETTER. You thought the Harriet Myers affair brought the wrath of your party down on you? Well you haven’t seen anything yet.

Saxby Chambliss R 416 Russell Senate Office Building 202-224-3521; 202-224-0103

Johnny Isakson R 120 Russell Senate Office Building 202-224-3643; 202-228-0724

Lindsey Graham R 290 Russell Senate Office Building 202-224-5972; 202-224-3808

John Thune R 383 Russell Senate Office Building 202-224-2321 ;202-228-5429

Bob Corker R B40A Dirksen Senate Office Building 202-224-3344 ;202-228-1264

John McCain will make greening the federal government a priority of his administration. The federal government is the largest electricity consumer on earth and occupies 3.3 billion square feet of space worldwide. It provides an enormous opportunity to lead by example. By applying a higher efficiency standard to new buildings leased or purchased and retrofitting existing buildings, we can save taxpayers money in energy costs, and move the construction market in the direction of green technology.

The $84 billion windfall for “alternative and renewable fuels” is a great example of why Government should not be setting economic policy, which is what this is.

There should be NO subsidy for ANY industry (unless it’s on the brink of collapse and it’s a national security issue), because that creates an artificial imbalance in the price structure that more accurately directs where investment dollars should flow.

Right now, the sensible fuels are OIL and COAL and GAS and NUCLEAR and HYDRO, because we already know how to use them with current technology to produce all the energy we need. They are also by far the most cost-effective fuels to be found.

If Government tells these industries, “No, you can’t drill or build, but instead we’ll pay you your own money to invest in pie-in-the-sky, whether you believe it will work or not,” the result will be wasted money, not a faster transition to windmills and solar panels. Since there is an element of national security in this issue, it does make sense for the Government to promote independent research into the matter–it just doesn’t make sense to charge it all to the oil companies. And it doesn’t make sense to think that the Government has any idea as to just what “alternative fuel” might eventually become viable–it shouldn’t favor one or two kinds over another. After all, “shale oil” is just as much an alternative right now as is solar, and nuclear is a heck of a lot more practical and readily available per kilowatt-hour than is wind power.

In a way, McCain has the right idea, if he proposes a prize to the first “person” to develop a practical alternative to foreign oil as our primary fuel. But to take money away (to the tune of $84 billion) from the people who are providing us with usable energy today in order to create “alternative energy” is what is known in the skepticism trade as “magical thinking”–because you wish it to be so, it must be so.

It makes no sense to transition to a non-economical fuel (ethanol, etc.) when there is a more economical one available (oil) with plentiful supply. As oil becomes less available, and thus more expensive, then alternatives will make sense. But Social Security will be solvent before oil is truly scarce, unless we make it scarce by restricting ourselves from our own raw materials.

Reference: Basic Economics, Third Edition, (Basic Books, 2007), by Thomas Sowell, Chapter 2.

I think this falls under self-inflicted wounds. I am speechless as to why these 5 would work so hard to destroy the one key issue they have going into the November elections. Talk about out of touch. The American people don’t want busy work out of Washington, they want real, common sense answers. I guess the idea of Congress and common sense in the same sentence is an oxymoron thought. Wow.

What else do we need to do in order for our conservative and republican leaders realize that:

1. Standing by the conservative and republican principles is the most important thing in US politics.

2. Compromising the basic principles is a sure path to disaster.

3. Being a lukewarm conservative and the lack of fighting spirit to stand by our main principles was the main reason of 2006 victory of the Democrats and the defeat of some conservative candidates early this year.

These senators need to know that they will not see the light of the new day unless they do their share of burden:

Fight a good fight. No one wins by just giving in to your opponents. Concession of principles is the main recipe of failure.

This is a sad day for republicans and conservatives.

I will write a blog this weekend on it.

Immediatley bashing our own is not productive. We have two goals:

getting prices down asap and
the overall issue

http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/2008/08/06/better-off-doing-nothing/

Giving a nod to increased domestic energy production is a welcome development. Unfortunately, there is absolutely nothing new in the “Gang of Ten” plan to deliver a new era of energy policy. In fact, it represents more of the same government-centered ‘solutions’ that helped deliver the present energy crises in the first place. Taxing efficient producers to the tune of $84 billion to funnel the revenue into less efficient, but politically-expedient alternatives is a failed approach. If
the government wants to help average Americans, it can open ANWR and the outer continental shelf to energy production, and facilitate the leasing of over 2 trillion barrels in oil shale on U.S. lands.[viii] Other than that, politicians should just get out of the way and let free markets do their
job. A New Era for domestic energy will begin on October 1, when the bans imposed by Congress expire and offshore drilling and oil shale production become legal again. The “Gang of Ten” would
better serve the needs of American families by renouncing their recent plan and simply step aside.

is dead right. Government should just get out of the way.

Meanwhile, the Gang of Ten should get out of the way, too. Let what’s happening in the House continue. It’s drawing attention to exactly who are causing the problems and which party is offering solutions. Americans will understand. Now, they will be getting a confusing message.

I can’t believe those 5 Republicans would be more interested in grandstanding than helping us in this election. It’s mind numbing.