[mefistofeles]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'D')oes being elected to congress actually mutate ones DNA and tunr one into a thieving bastard, or is that quality a prerequisite for the job itself?

[TheDude]

Kingcoal? Pstarr? Pup?

Oh. it's Yergin...

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'N')EW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Oil expert Daniel Yergin told Congress on Wednesday that speculative oil traders have played a role in driving up prices but that the credit crisis and weaker dollar have also been factors.

"Financial markets are today playing an increasingly important role in price formation - responding to, accentuating, and exaggerating supply and demand, geopolitics and other trends," said Yergin, co-founder and chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates.

Yergin said that markets have helped fuel a "shortage psychology" that the world is "running out of oil."

"As prices go up, this psychology becomes self-reinforcing - at least until the market turns," said Yergin.

[mefistofeles]

Wow when Yergin says we need to get off oil it means we have serious supply problems that are obvious to ALMOST everyone.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TheDude', '
')
At least he's pointing out to them that this isn't all tulip mania.

[emersonbiggins]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TheDude', '
')
At least he's pointing out to them that this isn't all tulip mania.

[cipi604]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'N')EW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Oil expert Daniel Yergin told Congress on Wednesday that speculative oil traders have played a role in driving up prices but that the credit crisis and weaker dollar have also been factors.

[mattduke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '�')��This statute gives Congress a seat at the table in deciding whether or not to go to war — not just a seat at the table, but one with a permanent staff, a permanent professional staff, and access to all the available intelligence information,” Christopher said.

[Novus]

Bush should be Impeached for walking all over the constitution the way he has. Bush acts like he is the damn King! He has made the Congressional act of declaring war nothing more than a meaningless formality. It is treason the way he has abolished the democratic process of checks and balances.

[Plantagenet]

Back in the real world, the U.S. Constitution already gives Congress the sole power to declare war.

In reality, it was the U.S. Congress who voted for war with Afghanistan in 2001 and then voted for war with Iraq in 2003-4.

Here in the real world, the U.S. Congress could stop the war at any time by (a) repealing the war powers act they passed to authorize the war, or (b) by not voting the supplemental funds for the war. However, the dems who control Congress continue to vote more and more billions for the war, while at the same time pretending they oppose the war.


COngress doesn't need a new proposal...the Congress needs a new spine.

[Peleg]

Imagine if he had gotten a line item veto (lusted after by both parties I would point out.) Then he could have crossed out everything in a bill that did not jive with his notion of reality and circumvented congress altogether.

Also executive orders and emergency powers are loopholes. However the Congress did approve Iraq after the fact. They should have taken a stand right then but opinion polls suggested it would be a bad move.

Treason, criminal offense involving the attempt, by overt acts, to overthrow the government to which the offender owes allegiance, or to betray the state to a foreign power. (Encarta)

If there ever has been attempts to alter our laws so as to defraud American's of their Constitutional Rights might we not fairly construe these as acts of treason? So that when it was the intent of the framers that the popular vote decide elections and we allow it to be decided by the Supreme Court, or when we defraud our fellow citizens of the right to know before invasion, or do an end around Congress (the only truly representative body in the federal government) could not such things be considered treasonous in some way? And yet somehow during these times when the dark powers try to distort and twist things, it is those who question who are looked at as less than patriotic. So, could we not charge ourselves then with treason for having elected someone who claimed to be Christian but has proven with almost every decision (other than pandering to our narrow sense of politics on specific issues) that he does not know the God of the Bible? I'm being ridiculous to prove that we have too few fingers to point with when we consider the failings of this nation since the 80's, or since WWII for that matter, or since Jekyll Island for that matter. Unless there is a pronounced awaking of the excluded middle in politics we are going to end our days a pathetic third rate power, making please for aid to the nations we once snubbed so we could burn corn in our SUVs.

There how's that for some barely disguised extreme moderate ideological rhetoric!

[Peleg]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', 'B')ack in the real world, the U.S. Constitution already gives Congress the sole power to declare war.

In reality, it was the U.S. Congress who voted for war with Afghanistan in 2001 and then voted for war with Iraq in 2003-4.

Here in the real world, the U.S. Congress could stop the war at any time by (a) repealing the war powers act they passed to authorize the war, or (b) by not voting the supplemental funds for the war. However, the dems who control Congress continue to vote more and more billions for the war, while at the same time pretending they oppose the war.


COngress doesn't need a new proposal...the Congress needs a new spine.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Peleg', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', 'B')ack in the real world, the U.S. Constitution already gives Congress the sole power to declare war.

In reality, it was the U.S. Congress who voted for war with Afghanistan in 2001 and then voted for war with Iraq in 2003-4.

Here in the real world, the U.S. Congress could stop the war at any time by (a) repealing the war powers act they passed to authorize the war, or (b) by not voting the supplemental funds for the war. However, the dems who control Congress continue to vote more and more billions for the war, while at the same time pretending they oppose the war.


COngress doesn't need a new proposal...the Congress needs a new spine.

[Cashmere]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'R')ep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., said in the Democrats' radio address.
"Democrats support more drilling," he said. "In fact, what the president hasn't told you is that the oil companies are already sitting on 68 million acres of federal lands with the potential to nearly double U.S. oil production.

[MyOldTDiIsStillGoing]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cashmere', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'R')ep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., said in the Democrats' radio address.
"Democrats support more drilling," he said. "In fact, what the president hasn't told you is that the oil companies are already sitting on 68 million acres of federal lands with the potential to nearly double U.S. oil production.

[Plantagenet]

Matt Simmons refers to this "finger pointing" as "witch hunting."

Rather then taking action and doing something about the energy crisis, the dems have gone on a "witch hunt" to try to pin the blame for high oil prices on evil speculators, big oil, the strategic petroleum reserve, etc.

Twenty years ago Simmons wanted Congress to authorize a federal seismic survey of the continental shelf, so the government would at least know if there are geologic structures off Florida, Georgia, Viriginia, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Long Island, Maine, California, Oregon and Washington with oil potential.

Congress did nothing 20 years ago. They are still doing nothing.

Its time for the "witch hunt" to end and for Congress to act.

[joe1347]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]Solar group slams Congress over failed tax credit bill by Mark LaPedus EE Times (07/31/2008 12:29 PM EDT):
SAN JOSE, Calif. — The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) slammed the U.S. Senate for failing to pass a critical solar bill that would extend an investment tax credit.
SEIA President Rhone Resch blasted the Senate, as it failed to pass a cloture motion on S. 3335, the Jobs, Energy, Families and Disaster Relief Act. The act includes provisions to extend the solar investment tax credit for eight years.
The motion failed by a vote of 51 to 43, unable to gain the support of 60 senators needed for passage.

[ProudFossil]

Four Republicans voted for it. Obama, McCain, Kennedy, and Stevens did not vote.

The reason generally given is the Democrats are saying you will do the energy stuff the way we want to or you can go to hell and the Republicans are saying you will do the energy stuff the way we want to or you can go to hell. Pure and simple, both sides are saying, damn the people, its my ball and you will play the way I want to.

Rotten politics on both sides. Drilling on the one side, alternative energy on the other. No compromise anywhere.

Throw all the incumbents out of office.

[Gothor]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ProudFossil', 'F')our Republicans voted for it. Obama, McCain, Kennedy, and Stevens did not vote.
The reason generally given is the Democrats are saying you will do the energy stuff the way we want to or you can go to hell and the Republicans are saying you will do the energy stuff the way we want to or you can go to hell. Pure and simple, both sides are saying, damn the people, its my ball and you will play the way I want to. Rotten politics on both sides. Drilling on the one side, alternative energy on the other. No compromise anywhere. Throw all the incumbents out of office.