Colorado's Jr. Senator, Democrat Ken Salazar, was in the inenviable position on the Senate floor this afternoon of being the designated "objector" for Senate Democrats. Yep, that's right. There now exists video of a Democrat voicing opposition to drilling off the outer continental shelf and ANWR even if the price of gas at the pump […]
In a political year that should ensure a Democratic Party landslide in the fall, Democrats seem poised to shoot themselves in the foot. Case in point is Reps. James Oberstar and Peter DeFazio's plan for a gas tax hike. Oberstar, D-Minn., said his committee is working on the next long-term highway bill. He estimated it […]
President Bush announced today that he is lifting the executive ban on offshore drilling. There is still in place a congressional ban on the practice, so don't expect anything to happen anytime soon. I also want to respond to this inaninty about the 68 million acres of federal land oil companies are already leasing but […]
Gas prices are still painfully high, and the Congress continues to be, in the words of Wm. Shakespeare, "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." For those interested in blaming a particular party, I give you the following chart -- you can figure out who you should vote for if you want lower prices.
There are certain scientific discoveries that make fools out of the doomsayers. Decades ago Paul Ehrlich predicted a "population bomb" where the growth of the Earth's human population would become unsustainable and result in the starvation and death of millions. Advances in biotechnology allowed more food than ever to be grown on less land than […]
Way back when the solvency of Social Security was more on the front burner of American political discussion, I criticized New York Times columnist Paul Krugman for changing his description of Social Security from one week to the next depending on political expediency. One week Social Security was a welfare program to help the poor, […]
Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is taking her cues from Sen. Chuck Schumer. "We cannot drill our way out of this," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California countered. Opening the wildlife refuge in Alaska would reduce U.S. gasoline prices by one penny per gallon, she said. Change "cannot" to "will not" and she has it […]
Powerline got a chart from Republican House whip Roy Blunt that makes the case for Republicans better than anything else they could possibly come up with. Send that out with your campaign materials and watch Democrats go apoplectic. Read the methodology postscript over at the Powerline post. It makes it readily apparent that Sen. Chuck […]
The Senate, prompted by Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein (the smarter California one), decided by voice vote to privatize the Senate food service. Last year, the Senate had to subsidize the food service to the tune of $1.3 million and the food is "noticeably sub par." (Apparently one of the problems was that the food was […]
This is an argument that can work for many Republicans -- except John McCain. Via Powerline and Rep. Roy Blunt comes these numbers: ANWR Exploration House Republicans: 91% Supported House Democrats: 86% Opposed Coal-to-Liquid House Republicans: 97% Supported House Democrats: 78% Opposed Oil Shale Exploration House Republicans: 90% Supported House Democrats: 86% Opposed Outer Continental […]