Questions the New Direction Congress Can’t Answer
Thursday, June 26th, 2008Tuesday night, I attended our local Republican Party’s Summer Social. Predictably, one of the subjects of conversation was the high gas prices. After Rep. Dan Severson gave his presentation, out party chairman asked me to deliver an update on what were the hot topics on the blogosphere. I’m not an accomplished public speaker but this was an easy speech to make.
I said that gas prices were the dominant topic on the blogosphere by a wide margin. I said that this should excite the GOP faithful because Democrats don’t have the solution to the gas crisis. I stated first that the crisis was artificial in nature, meaning that it’s a crisis that was entirely avoidable.
The reason why Democrats don’t have an answer to this crisis is because they don’t believe in oil exploration. That isn’t just an opinion. Check out the picture from this post on Powerline. What better proof do you need that Democrats don’t have a solution than to show that House Democrats announcing on Tuesday that they’d be holding a press conference this morning, then cancelling the event?
As I pointed out here, Tim Walz is using the Democrat mantra that “we can’t drill our way out of this crisis.” Last night, I told our group about how I argued against that mantra. I said that we could use the same information whether we’re talking aboout Tim Walz, Al Franken, El Tinklenberg or whoever. (more…)