That is exactly why they didn't stay. They were playing the issue for temporary gain. Very temporary. Then, off to vacation. Bunch of posers
“....the Republicans made a mistake in complying....”
Not necessarily given what may have been a quickly organized *revolt.*
I think the great response of the public to this via email and phone may have encouraged future action. Such action WILL be necessary.
It would have gotten a lot more news coverage if they had stayed longer. As it is, Labour Day will bring heavy campaigning and new issues, and the run up to the November election. This whole thing will be forgotten by then, and the media will continue to block out the whole drilling argument as far as they can.
We see it almost every day, but the MSM has only run a few stories on it.
Call them back for special session to deal with energy. Make Pelosi and Reid miss their summer vacation. Do it!
It worked brilliantly for Truman 60 years ago. It will work just as well for Bush today.
It just smacks of Queen B-word dusting her hands and saying “I SAID there will be no drilling!”
True, but getting arrested for refusing to disperse is a mostly liberal thing to do. To them, it's a badge of honor to have an arrest record for being part of an unruly mob. For the most part, conservative protesters are proud to leave the police alone, and let them deal with real criminals rather than to make them props in pointless media stunts.
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When I called Rep. Jon Porter (R-NV 3), his staffers even at his local offices were bragging about the fact that he was there on the floor and had given a speech during the blackout. They were hyped. And this despite ‘local polls’ which show him trailing some Pelosi-clone witch with bigger name ID for re-election in November.
The Nevada Third Congressional District has a 10,000 voter advantage to the Democrats and contains most of the hispanics in Las Vegas. It covers Henderson and other suburbs of the City of Las Vegas. Porter has won it each time since the District was created in 2002. He is now being opposed by Dina Titus who is:
1. Ugly
2. Sounds like she is from Alabama (no offense, but it sounds bizarre here in Las Vegas from a person who has lived here for 40 years supposedly)
3. Term-limited out as a State Senator and former Dem Senate Leader (minority party).
4. State University Professor in Political Science (so, yes, she is getting two paychecks from the taxpayers of Nevada and in her elected job she gives herself raises in her day job) (In Nevada, the Legislature only gets to work 140 days every other year. Otherwise, they need to find real jobs to make a living. Virtually every Democrat is a public employee of some kind in their ‘day job’)
5. She unsuccessfully ran for Governor in 2006 so this is the next most important office she thought she could get into. She is running for Congress simply because she wants another paycheck from the government.
6. She has favored every tax hike every proposed in Nevada and was part of a cabal 3 years ago in which the State Supreme Court over-ruled the Nevada Constitution and ordered the Legislature to raise taxes without getting a voter approval or getting the required 2/3rd voter majority. The Supreme Court decided that ‘funding the schools’ was more important than upholding the Constitutional provision requiring a 2/3rd voter approval of any take hikes.
Dina Titus was the Plaintiff before the Supreme Court trying to get the Justices to Order GOP Senators to vote for a $1.05B tax increase to ‘pay for education’. This historic atrocity has already resulted in the outster/retirement of 2 of the Nevada Supreme Court Justices and in the August primary the 3rd will be removed. Dina Titus doesn’t believe the Court was wrong.
7. Dina Titus has Harry Reids machine behind her and has personal approval to run for this one contested Congressional Seat in Nevada.
Dina Titus has Harry Reids approval. End of Story.
If any of you are in the greater Las Vegas area, send Jon Porter some money or call him office and volunteer to help. I’ve known Jon since he was just an insurance agent and before Congress and he has always been a Conservative voice almost without exception. He is one of the Seats which Nancy Pelosi believes will be in her control after Nov 5th because of the Obamagasm you see on TV.
That’s the Republicans. They never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
I called my LOCAL tv station and asked them to cover this, and will e-mail another LOCAL tv station.
If the national news won’t cover it, maybe we can get LOCAL tv stations to cover the fight against Dictator Pelosi, and LOCAL tv stations in the cold-weather states should especially join in the fight to drill. Our heating bill in the cold-weather states is going to be thousands and thousands of dollars, as well as the gas prices.
As the protest grew and media coverage expanded, Pelosi made a huge mistake in ordering Capitol Hill police to evict the Republicans from the building.November 2008 -- Be there!