I want you to understand what has just happened in our Congress.  The House of Representatives have just voted to adjourn for summer vacation.  It's a Presidential election year, so each of them will be campaigning in their districts as the next five weeks unfold. 

On the table for this "governing" body is the issue of drilling and exploration for more oil.  This is our oil.  Ok, not exactly mine and yours, but it is under ground that is either ours or land that we have some say over.  You know, like that Great Lakes land that the Canadians are stripping of our natural gas, or the piece of Alaska that we've just given to Russia, or that spot in the Gulf where China is drilling.

Nancy Pelosi says she is trying to save the planet.  Others say that we cannot drill our way out of this tight spot on oil.  We need alternative fuels to be developed.  They say we all know that drilling isn't going to solve our problems.

I think they've been highjacked by aliens.  They're not making any sense to me.  The Democrats are pushing to control oil speculators and "get" BIG OIL.  They say it'll take too long to get the oil into the system anyway.  Many of the oil speculators are off our shores.  So, any regulations put in play with those people are going to have the effect of a pop gun on an elephant.  I have no love for the oil companies, but they could get the oil to us quicker than the Democrats are saying. 

When the President said he was releasing the restrictions against drilling for oil and exploring for it in our country, the price of a barrell of oil immediately dropped a bit.  Do you think this was a coincidence?  If the rest of the oil producers know that we are going to go after our own, prices on theirs WILL go down.  It won't even take the presence of our oil, just the promise of it. 

So how is it that the Democrats have seen fit to throw a monkey wrench into any potential relief we might be able muster for our citizens from the high gas and oil prices?  I think there are deals that have been made in private that require the Reps to maintain this obstructionist stance.  I think they are on the take. 

Congressman John Peterson of Pennsylvania has proposed legislation which would address all of our energy options.  But the first thing it would do is allow drilling in our vast seas and under our land.  Alternative forms of energy would be pursued as well.  In other words all barrells loaded, no pun, all guns blazin'.  In the words of a sage old soothsayer, "gitter done!"

The Democrats have put their party ahead of you.  It is more important to them to stop any positive movement in energy production that might just rescue our economy, than to have something happen that might just help you.  They cannot afford to have anything good happen while George W. Bush is President.  It may make him look better and the Democrats look worse.  Anyone who votes for a national office and selects a Democrat is out of their mind.  Wake up. You are being held hostage by a stupid political party system.  Throw 'em all out of office.