A glimpse of our future with Democrats

You can probably name a hundred things you’d like government to do, can’t you? Things like lift restrictions on drilling and refineries, repair roads and bridges, ya know things government is supposed to do to help the economy and the infrastructure. But what are Democrats worried about? The Hill says Harry Reid is worried about taxes that are fixin’ to expire;

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) urged Republicans Tuesday to work with the majority on a measure that would extend expiring tax provisions and energy tax incentives.

“I strongly share your hope that the Senate can work out a bipartisan solution to extend these important tax incentives before the August recess,” Reid said in a letter to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), adding, “The fate of this legislation rests in your hands.”

I guess the taxes on our energy are much more important than actually providing for our energy needs. CNN writes that Nancy Pelosi’s solution to the high price of gas is for the President to release the Strategic Petroleum Reserves;

Pelosi sent a letter asking the president “to draw down a small portion” of the SPR’s more than 700 million barrels of oil “to help reduce record prices that are helping push the economy toward recession.”

“Releasing oil from the Reserve is a tool to manage our national and economic security, and when judiciously used will in no way jeopardize national security,” the California Democrat wrote.

She told the locals back in California that it’s Bush’s fault that gas prices are so high;

The speaker blames what she labels the Bush-Cheney big oil agenda, using graphics to point out gasoline prices have more than doubled in the Bush administration.

“This is a scam of the greatest magnitude,” says Speaker Pelosi.

The New York Times profiles the Democrats’ clinging to the failed policies of the past;

With Republicans pushing for more domestic oil and gas production and many Democrats focusing on alternative energy sources, finding consensus will not be easy, Congressional leaders acknowledge.

Democratic leaders in the Senate also are not ready to embrace the idea of a bipartisan compromise on energy legislation, in part out of concern about adopting a position at odds with their expected presidential nominee, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois.

Mr. Obama, who has called for higher mileage standards and investments in alternative energy, so far has espoused the traditional Democratic view that domestic drilling is not the answer to high prices — a view he affirmed in a new television advertisement that began running Tuesday in four battleground states.

So their solution to the problem is to hope someone stumbles over an alternative energy that can be rushed out to us in time for winter – but not before the election.

Politico writes that some Democrats are actually interested in doing something;

At least five Senate Democrats support more domestic oil and gas exploration, and McConnell is sweetening the deal to make the sale to other moderates: The Kentucky Republican is pushing a package of incentives to boost conservation as well as a measure creating stricter enforcement of commodities markets in exchange for more offshore oil and gas drilling.

“The goal,” he said Monday, “is to narrowly craft something that will appeal to Democrats.”

Reid brushed aside McConnell’s new effort at bipartisanship, pointing out that GOP senators have filibustered every Democratic energy bill this year.

Harry Reid brushes aside bipartisanship? But that’s not what he promised in 2006.

While the nation suffers economically, Obama fiddles. The Washington Times says that Barack Obama is worried that we’re a mono-lingual nation and he’s embarrassed that US children only speak one language while European children speak their own indigenous language plus English;

He said he agrees immigrants should learn English, but felt the concern should be more about global competitiveness.

“Instead of worrying about whether immigrants can learn English, because they will learn English, you need to make sure your child can speak Spanish,” he said. “We should have every child speaking more than one language.”

For comic effect, he added, “It’s embarrassing when Europeans come over here, they all speak English, they speak French, they speak German. And then we go over to Europe and all we can say is ‘Merci beaucoup.'”

English is the language of commerce and the language of diplomacy – everyone else should speak English. Hell, a large portion of the American people don’t even speak an understandable version of English.

Does anyone else get the idea that Democrats are more interested is keeping the economy broken for purely political reasons and focusing on inconsequential BS? Maybe that’s why LT Nixon can report that they’re suffering the worst poll numbers in their history.

Category: Economy, Politics