Tell your Congressmen to Do Nothing! ( #dontgo Update )

From Tim Phillips, of Americans for Prosperity:

The clock is ticking down to October 1st, 2008 — the expiration date for the current Congressional ban on offshore drilling and oil shale recovery.

Expanding domestic energy production by getting at untapped U.S. resources is the key to lowering prices at the pump — so contact your lawmaker today and tell them to DO NOTHING. That’s right. Tell your lawmaker that doing nothing is the right thing to do for American energy consumers.

Nancy Pelosi and other liberal leaders know they are running out of time to save their political skins, so they’ve put together a sham proposal they claim would allow “drilling.” Tell your lawmakers not to be fooled! Democratic proposals that claim to allow drilling are just ploys designed to erect huge new permanent hurdles to meaningful oil exploration and to hike taxes on energy.

Contact your lawmakers. Urge them to support letting the current ban on offshore drilling expire by DOING NOTHING.

Use this form to e-mail your lawmakers today.

Word from Texas: “That Pelosi woman is nuts!” Also, #dontgo recruiting Citizens Intelligence Service

A hat-tip for that gem goes to the dontgomovment.com, which is now recruiting for a “Citizens Intelligence Service”:

Simply email Bill Collier Upadaria@yahoo.com with your information and what you can do. You will be contacted via email by me and then by the person who oversees the area you wish to participate in and they will personally help you get started. Read more

The Georgia Crisis and Nancy Pelosi

By now everyone, I hope, knows about Russia’s invasion of Georgia. I have read some comments from the “Bash Bush” crowd that say “so what, we invaded two countries also”. Some facts these detractors seem to either never knew or conveniently forget. Iraq and Afghanistan were not democracies, nor were the people free in any sense of the word.

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The Art of the Deal

No, not the autobiography by Donald Trump. Haggling is an age old art-form. It has been described as polite arguing. The trick in haggling is for the seller to learn just how desperate the buyer is and the trick for the buyer is to determine just how much the seller wants to make money.

A starving man may sell his soul for a crust of bread, but a starving man with a crust of bread might not want to sell it at all. A baker wants to sell his bread when it is fresh so that people will know what kind of artisan he is but if he can’t sell it quickly, he can still sell it the next day at a reduced rate enough to cover his time and expense. But if he can’t sell it the third day, he must toss it out, toast it for croutons, or crumble it for bird feed and lose money.

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Nancy Pelosi – Stand Up Comic

While making a trek around the web I ran into a couple well chosen words that I decided to share with you this Sunday. I hope you find them as humorous as I do.

From the Idaho Mt. Express about Nancy Pelosi:

…she’s been a perpetual no-show, scarce as hen’s teeth when President Bush and Vice President Cheney and their acolytes ran roughshod over the Constitution and blew off empty Democratic complaints. Pelosi decided if she played nice with Bush, and promised he need not worry about impeachment, he and the Republican minority would return the favor. Instead, Bush implemented ruthless policies—torture of detainees, illegal wiretaps, corruption of the Justice department—while Pelosi dropped out of sight.

From the Free Press and Time Magazine:

I think the Republicans would like nothing better than for us to focus on impeachment and take our eye off the ball of a progressive economic agenda.

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A Few Energy Bills Nancy Wants to Ignore (Updated)

While discussing the #dontgo movement with my Representative’s  (Rep. Kay Granger, R-TX 12th District) I was brought up to-date on just a few bills pending before the House that Commissar Nancy is preventing from being acted upon.

H.R. 3089, No More Excuses Energy Act of 2007 Reduces the price of gasoline by opening new American oil refineries; investing in diverse energy sources such as wind, nuclear, and clean coal-to-liquid technology; and making available more homegrown energy through environmentally sensitive exploration of the Arctic Energy Slope and America’s Deep-Sea Energy Reserves.

H.R. 2279, Expand American Refining Capacity at Closed Military Bases Reduces the price of gasoline by streamlining the refinery application process and by requiring the President to open at least three closed military installations for the purpose of siting new and reliable American refineries. Read more