BREAKING!!!! HOUSE REPUBLICANS RAISING CAIN!!!

667 posted on 08/01/2008 11:56:17 AM PDT by Anti-Hillary (Yo Obama! IF FOR 20 YEARS YOU STAY IN THE PEW, IT'S BECAUSE YOU SHARE THE VIEW!!!!!)

781 posted on 08/01/2008 12:14:19 PM PDT by Gene Eric

To: 80 Square Miles

802 posted on 08/01/2008 12:18:03 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ('GOP' : Get Our Petroleum)

FOX News (212-301-3300 Breaking News Desk)

877 posted on 08/01/2008 12:27:23 PM PDT by TigersEye (Berlin '36 ... Olympics for murdering regimes. ... Beijing '08)

Was some reporter complaining that they had to miss a flight for this?

1,681 posted on 08/01/2008 1:50:19 PM PDT by RatsDawg (Barr/Root '08)

1,682 posted on 08/01/2008 1:50:21 PM PDT by mouse_35 (Vote Demorcrat for 2008! Lets do for Iraq what we did for Cambodia!!!)

To: rightwingintelligentsia; holdonnow

He should be in, and I hope he has audio!

1,683 posted on 08/01/2008 1:50:30 PM PDT by tiredoflaundry

Here is the text:

An Open Letter to the President and the Congress of the United States

Dear Mr. President and Members of the House of Representatives and the Senate:

Recently there has been an increase in the amount of dialog from Members of Congress from both parties and The President has spoken out on the need for action regarding our lack of a comprehensive Energy Policy. The two presumptive Presidential nominees have also had much to say about the matter. While we are sure this is not the sole reason for the actions taken, the amount of attention given to the matter has gained momentum in the last several weeks since Mr. T. Boone Pickens began a grass-roots movement to gain support for his plan to harness wind and solar energy to generate electricity. By doing so it is postulated that the freeing up of natural gas that is used for that purpose currently could simultaneously be diverted to transportation needs. The benefit would be to cut the amount of oil the United States imports from foreign sources.

Given the recent run-up in oil prices and the potentially devastating effect of our economy and therefore a grave threat to our national well being and security, it is time for immediate action to address this situation. The divide between the Democratic and Republican parties is not of interest to the American people anymore. The threat is real and, is perceived and experienced to be real, by millions of Americans. The opinion polls show that Americans want action. The polls also show a deep distrust and unprecedented unpopularity for the accomplishments of the Congress and the Executive Branch in addressing this most critical issue as well as others.

Congress is scheduled to recess August 2nd as is customary. We would ask that the Congress not recess at this time but stay in session and debate the various proposals put forth and stay in session until it can reach some agreement as to a proper course of action and enact for the President’s signature legislation to enable the pursuit of such course of action. Furthermore we would ask the President to report to the Congress as called for in Article II of the Constitution as to his recommendations as to such course of action and, if necessary, to convene both Houses of Congress to impress upon them the necessity to perform its duty to address this most critical threat to our nation’s welfare.

Mr. Pickens has sponsored a Web Site called the Pickens’ Plan and in a little over two weeks over 80,000 American’s have joined that website to offer ideas, trade opinions, and in general have the sort of honest debate we expect our leaders to have on such weighty matters. One member, Ms. Marilynn Roseberry Ward from Lewis Center, Ohio posted a letter she sent to the President regarding this issue. The theme of the letter was simply “Make Them Stay” – referring to the Congress scheduled to leave on vacation just as the debate has started to heat up on what is likely to most significant issue affecting American lives on a daily basis. Imagine if at the time of the founding of our Republic the Congressmen and Delegates to the various Continental Congresses and Conventions had left instead of sticking with the tedious debate hammering out the great compromises that are the basis for our Liberty? If you believe, as the undersigned and millions of other Americans do, that rapidly growing dependence on foreign oil – the lifeblood of our economy and therefore the foundation of our liberty – is a clear and present danger then how could you in good conscience believe you are fulfilling your duties by taking the month off? How could you not stay and do the work your constituents elected you to do by working together, putting nation before party or self interests, and setting this nation on a course to correct this perilous condition?

Were you to stay and work – showing Americans watching live on Cspan exactly what is possible when good men and women of all opinions and positions come together to address a problem that affects us all - you would earn our eternal gratitude and esteem by having abandoned the bitter divisiveness that has spawned the chronic inaction on this, and many other issues of similar import, that led us to this critical point in the first place.

We call on the Congress to stay and work – work until the job is done – and should the Congress fail in its basic obligations to serve its constituents in its most basic duty – We call upon the President to uphold his duty by, in reflecting the words of Marilynn in Ohio, acting to “Make Them Stay”.

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/STAY08/index.html

1,684 posted on 08/01/2008 1:50:36 PM PDT by combat_boots (She lives! 22 weeks, 9.5 inches. Go, baby, go!)

THEY ARE GOING BACK TO THE FLOOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1,685 posted on 08/01/2008 1:50:36 PM PDT by RatsDawg (Barr/Root '08)

I am going to miss TGO today :(

I will read thread as I listen to replay later tonight or in am.

House members going BACK ON HOUSE FLOOR AFTER PRESSER!

1,686 posted on 08/01/2008 1:50:52 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ('GOP' : Get Our Petroleum)

Haha thanks I was a nit nervous

1,687 posted on 08/01/2008 1:51:01 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55

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LORD, GOD, ALMIGHTY . . .

PLEASE HEAR THIS PRAYER . . .

If remotely possible, bring Nancy P (and all other traitors supporting her action in the House and Senate) to brokenness, humility and wholesale public repentance.

If that is not possible, then wholesale and thoroughly and permanently remove her from public office in a very dramatic and humiliating way.

Serve notice on all the clueless traitors, Lord, that they will reap what they sow. Serve notice on all the evil hearted in Washington that there is ALMIGHTY GOD IN HEAVEN WATCHING THEIR EVERY MOVE, EVERY WORD, EVERY BREATH.

LET GOD ARISE AND HIS ENEMIES BE SCATTERED.

IN JESUS' NAME.

LET ALL EARNEST CHRISTIANS WHO FEEL LED TO PRAY ACCORDINGLY, SIMILARLY, DO SO IN AGREEMENT WITH THIS PRAYER.

So let it be prayed. So let it be done.

Amen.

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1,688 posted on 08/01/2008 1:51:07 PM PDT by Quix (key QUOTES POLS 1900 ON #76 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2031425/posts?page=77#77)

You don't have to keep away just because you can't make a donation at the time.
Come play and pay when, and what, you can.

1,689 posted on 08/01/2008 1:51:08 PM PDT by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)

They are intending to go back on the floor right now. Screw Nancy!

1,690 posted on 08/01/2008 1:51:12 PM PDT by defconw (Pray for Snow-RIP TONY, we love you.)

To: ConservativeMan55

Great Free Republic Shout Out!!!

1,691 posted on 08/01/2008 1:51:18 PM PDT by libertarian27 (Land of the Fee, Home of the Shamed)

Any from Pennsylvania?

Platts was on his way home, heard about it, turned his car around and went back!

1,692 posted on 08/01/2008 1:51:33 PM PDT by LikeLight (http://www.believersguidetolegalissues.com)

To: ConservativeMan55

1,693 posted on 08/01/2008 1:51:33 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (College kid: "Do you have a minute for Obama?" NVA: "Not now or ever.")

To: 50cal Smokepole

I might have to to a “mass” awarding! LOL

1,695 posted on 08/01/2008 1:51:42 PM PDT by tiredoflaundry

To: Brian_Baldwin

this is first sign of Republican party energy in ages!! thrilled at this show of concern and hope the House “legs” grow and grow!! We should be hammering the pols and press with phone calls etc. to show our support and keep this behavior strengthening until every American is aware of the solution and truth. I am inarticulate with relief that some of our Reps seem to care about our country!!

1,696 posted on 08/01/2008 1:51:45 PM PDT by righteousindignation

To: libertarian27

Haha thanks!!

That rocked!

I’ve never been on Hannity before

1,697 posted on 08/01/2008 1:51:58 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55

1,698 posted on 08/01/2008 1:51:59 PM PDT by firewalk

To: TornadoAlley3

1,699 posted on 08/01/2008 1:52:05 PM PDT by Shelayne (Hmmm...the Obamanation that causes desolation...Hmmm...(Just thinkin' out loud.))

To: Conservativegreatgrandma

They have a backbone. You just don't want to acknowledge it.

That is total nonsense! Please explain why 95% of the other Freepers agree with me, and not you? You must be living in a parallel universe.

1,700 posted on 08/01/2008 1:52:05 PM PDT by AmericaUnited

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