Tuesday, July 29, 2008

People are going to vote on ONE ISSUE, and unknowingly it's national security

Why don't I hear your campaign shrieking this to the high heavens Senator McCain?
Reid, Pelosi ready to compromise
Democrat leadership running scared on growing demand for oil
WASHINGTON - Are the Democratic leaders in Congress nervous about the growing grass-roots demand for lifting restrictions on domestic oil drilling?

Consider this: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has himself proposed a plan to open new areas for oil exploration - outraging senior members of his own caucus.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, ever aware of the way average Americans are being squeezed at the gas pump and through rising inflation due to higher energy prices, is supporting the plan.

While the proposal is drawing shrieks from those Democrats occupying safe seats in the House and Senate, it shows how vulnerable congressional Democrats might be to an uprising from voters in November.

The legislation, drafted by Reid and Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., would open nearly a billion new acres off the coast of Alaska to study for drilling. It would also dramatically accelerate oil leases in the western and central Gulf of Mexico.

"I am unalterably opposed to drilling," said Sen. Frank Lautenberg, (D-N.J., a member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, who cited a massive oil spill that closed nearly 100 miles of the Mississippi River last week.

Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., urged Reid to be "very careful about drilling off the coast of Alaska."
Last poll showed 75% of the people want drilling now EVERYWHERE. The people of Alaska, and the 84% apporval rated gov are in favor if it.

So McCain's campaign remains silent but for one commercial blaming high gas prices on Obama (cmon guys, be real), or is that the media just won't hold their megaphone in front of those people?

Senator McCain, the national democratic leadership and most of their backers, including in the house and senate remain unalterably opposed to anything but more overseas oil...that WILL be the result of their actions, and lack of actions.

They can be publicly disemboweled on this issue of utmost national security, and economic SURVIVAL on which they refuse to either accept the public will, OR common sense.

Run against that.
Do it and be seen to do it before Obama does.
If you cannot do that, and beat Obama to the common sense point, you don't deserve the victory in November.

4 comments:

Pastorius said...

McCain is just about useless.

Any man with vision would be taking such a mandate and pushing for a massive change in the structure of the way America deals with the world.

But, McCain likes the status quo. One would have to wonder why. Could it be that McCain has special relationships with people (a la Charles Keating) who make deals with him to support the status quo?

Gee, I wonder.

Fuck McCain. I swear to God, between Obama and McCain we have little in the way of choice. Do we want to kill ourselves with a shot to the head, or by hari kiri?

Epaminondas said...

Who can more easily be embarrassed into the right path,.... sometimes?

Pastorius said...

McCain? Maybe, I don't know.

Pastorius said...

At least McCain doesn't actually like Islamofascism. Obama, I'm not so sure.