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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (39118)	8/13/2008 8:15:52 AM
From: TideGlider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224750

Obama has failed and is falling down now. You must be very depressed.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (39118)	8/13/2008 9:18:05 AM
From: TideGlider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224750

Pelosi Backs Down on Drilling Vote By Mark Impomeni Aug 12th 2008 9:45PM Filed Under:eHouse, Democrats, Breaking News, Nancy Pelosi, Energy After weeks of refusing to allow a vote in the House of Representatives on drilling for new domestic sources of oil, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) indicated today that she may indeed finally allow a vote on the measure. Republicans have been holed up in the House chamber, conducting a protest session of the House and calling on Pelosi to call the House back into session to vote on drilling. Some Democrats have also been signaling that they would like an opportunity to vote on drilling as well. Faced with growing pressure from the right and the center on an issue supported by more than 70% of Americans in some polls, Pelosi had no choice but to give in to Republican-led demands for a vote. "They have this thing that says drill offshore in the protected areas. We can do that. We can have a vote on that. But it has to be part of something that says we want to bring immediate relief to the public and is not just a hoax on them." Last week, Pelosi told ABC News that Republicans would have to, "use their imagination," in order to figure out a way to get a vote. Republicans did just that, continuing the ad hoc floor protest for more than a week after the House officially recessed for the month of August. Now it appears that their creativity, and the good press they have been receiving for their efforts are about to pay off. But Republicans are not yet satisfied with the Speaker's about face on the drilling vote. They want her to call the House back into session now to vote on the measure, not wait until August. House Republican Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) issued a statement in reaction to Pelosi , challenging her to put her actions where her rhetoric is. "If Speaker Pelosi is truly sincere about having a vote...she should use her power as Speaker to call Congress back into session immediately and schedule a vote on the American Energy Act. Our message to Speaker Pelosi is very simple: we are ready to vote on more energy production and lower gas prices right now, and we should not wait one more day to begin giving the American people the relief they expect and deserve." The irony of this debate is that the Congressional moratorium on offshore drilling expires at the end of September, unless Democrats vote to extend it. So, Democrats don't really have to take a vote in order to allow new drilling to go forward. But the Republicans have played their hand so skillfully on this issue, that they appear poised to score a major political victory just as the nation's attention begins to turn to the November elections. When a large majority of Americans demand action on an issue, they usually get their way; and they tend to punish those who stood in the way. Democrats are slowly becoming aware of their vulnerability on the drilling issue and may find scheduling a vote and limiting the political damage already done to them more palatable than driving voters into the arms of waiting Republicans. news.aol.com

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (39118)	8/13/2008 10:12:05 AM
From: Ann Corrigan	Respond to of 224750

Lib media mum: Plame's lawsuit against Cheney dismissed: newsbusters.org

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (39118)	8/13/2008 10:26:39 AM
From: lorne	Respond to of 224750

....."John McCain missed 8 votes the past year on renewable energy.".... Obama making less than a quarter of Senate votes Fri November 2, 2007 cnn.com WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sen. Barack Obama has missed the most votes of any Democratic presidential hopeful in the Senate over the last two months, including a vote on an Iran resolution he has blasted Sen. Hillary Clinton for supporting. Sen. Barack Obama makes a campaign stop at Iowa State University on Saturday. The Illinois Democrat has missed nearly 80 percent of all votes since September. The other Democrats in the Senate running for president have missed a high percentage of votes as well. Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware has missed 68 percent of the votes during the same period, Sen. Christopher Dodd of Connecticut 65 percent and Clinton of New York 63 percent. Obama's campaign points out that Biden missed the most votes if the whole year is considered, followed by Dodd, then Obama. Obama's campaign argues that looking at the last two months is arbitrary. Obama missed a vote on a resolution that declared the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, an elite part of the Iranian military, a terrorist organization. He has criticized Clinton for voting for it, saying it would give President Bush a "blank check" to invade Iran. "This kind of resolution does not send the right signal to the region," Obama said during a presidential debate earlier this week. "It doesn't send the right signal to our allies or our enemies." Watch the report on Obama's voting in the Senate » Obama was campaigning in New Hampshire when the vote was taken. His campaign blamed his absence on the short notice given when the vote was scheduled. But two senior Democratic Senate aides said senators were advised the night before that the vote would occur the next day. A spokesman for Obama, however, was adamant Obama did not have enough time to return to Washington for the vote. Obama has also missed votes on a Democratic priority, the expansion of the federally funded State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) as well as a vote on a resolution that condemned MoveOn.org for running an ad in the New York Times attacking the top general in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus. Most of the votes Obama missed were for amendments to spending bills, when his vote would not have decided the outcome. Obama's campaign says he was in the Senate for critical votes, and canceled a campaign appearance to be in the Senate for a critical SCHIP vote. "The most important votes that this Congress did were in the first six months -- ethics reform, minimum wage, Iraq, 9/11 bill, energy," Obama spokesman Bill Burton said. "The last two months have been appropriations bills, and we were here for the Iraq votes." Stu Rothenberg of the Rothenberg Political Report said the voters may not punish Obama for missing votes. "I think most Americans understand that if you're running for president, you're going to have to be in Iowa, New Hampshire, and you're not going to make all the votes and they give candidates slack," Rothenberg said. With the mounting fight with the White House over key bills, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is putting all the contenders on notice. "I am going to leave here and go call our presidentials and let them know that they better look at their schedules, because these are not votes you can miss," Reid said on the Senate floor Friday.