Tuesday 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.

While that’s the biggest question that Democrats don’t have an answer for, another important question that they don’t have an answer for is why they haven’t done anything to make us mmore prosperous. We should be asking people what this ‘New Direction Congress’ has done to make them more prosperous. In fact, I’d ask people if they’re better off now than they were 2 years ago.

Another important question that the New Direction Congress doesn’t have an answer to is what they’ve done to protect the US from terrorist attacks. When the FISA Reform bill passed the House, fewer than half of the House Democrats voted for the bill. On the Senate side, a significant portion of the Senate Democrats have announced that they’ll try defeating the FISA Reform bill with a filibuster.

UPDATE: The FISA Reform cloture vote passed by an 80-15 margin. Not surprisingly, Sen. Obama didn’t vote on cloture. He definitely isn’t a profile in courage. Democrats and Obama are sending a flimsy message on national security, especially since they’ve failed miserably in Iraq War policy.

When the New Direction Congress took over, Ms. Pelosi promised to drain the swamp of corruption. Can anyone say that Washington is less corrupt now than 2 years ago? Can anyone look at John Murtha or Paul Kanjorski and say that Ms. Pelosi and her leadership minions have taken any serious steps in curbing the corruption?

The reality is that House Democrats aren’t just the Do-Nothing Congress; they’re the ‘No Solutions Congress’, too. It’s time we hired a solutions-oriented congress, isn’t it?

Over the last 2 years, we’ve seen that this sloganeering congress hasn’t done anything to make us more prosperous or safer. It’s time we hired a solutions-oriented congress this November.

Technorati Tags: gas Crisis, Corruption, Economy, Do-Nothing Congress, ANWR, No Solutions Congress, Nancy Pelosi, Tim Walz, Election 2008

Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog