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To: steve harris who wrote (398795)	7/14/2008 11:15:45 PM
From: Ruffian	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578133

Now This Buffoon Was In The Ring To Long; Reid Rejects Bush Call to Lift Drilling Moratorium Monday, July 14, 2008 5:08 PM WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, on Monday rejected a call by U.S. President George W. Bush to lift a moratorium on offshore oil drilling. Bush announced on Monday that he lifted the executive branch's restriction on offshore exploration, saying only Congress stood in the way of opening up America's untapped oil riches. But Reid said oil companies should focus instead on drilling on much of the 68 million acres that they have leased but not used for exploration. Asked, however, if he expected to have the votes to block legislation to lift the moratorium in face of soaring gasoline prices, Reid told a news conferences, "We will have to wait and see." Reid said he hoped to have legislation introduced this week to crack down on oil speculators. On the other side of the Capitol, Rep. Edward Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, mocked Bush's call earlier in the day to lift the ban. "The Bush oil policy is an attempt at mass deception by a White House that has, for the last seven and a half years, pursued Big Oil's agenda of drill, drill, drill," Markey, chairman of a select House of Representatives committee on energy independence, told a news conference. "Drill, drill, drill has failed, failed, failed," Markey said. "It has failed to make America energy independent. It has failed to prevent rising prices at the pump." © 2008 Reuters. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content, including by caching, framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. Print Page \| Forward Page \| E-mail Us

To: steve harris who wrote (398795)	7/15/2008 1:18:41 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578133

Steve, you should read some of the comments on the L.A. Times blog: latimesblogs.latimes.com > Schumer was media whoring, he is the Gloria Allred of Congress.* If he wanted to help the situation there was a million ways to do that than go out and try to get his name in the news.* > Well we all know what happened after he said what he said. Question is why he said it, and who he had dinner with the night before he said it. Take a close look at who Schumer's real friends are and you will have a better explanation of his motives, I think. We might be able to tell who his real friends are by looking closely at who profited most by Indymac's demise. > Hey, Schumer is from New York. What's so strange about him commenting on the solvency of a Bank in Pasadena? I mean, it's not like any banks in New York have some similar financial situation, is it? Because if they did, then maybe this was a little mis-direction. Schumer isn't that smart, is he? Nawwww....... Tenchusatsu