REVOLT ON THE FLOOR OF THE HOUSE

The democrats opted to go on vacation rather than address the energy crisis Now some hearty Republicans have set up a revolt on the floor of Congress....in the dark.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and the Democrats adjourned the House and turned off the lights and killed the microphones, but Republicans are still on the floor talking gas prices.

Minority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) and other GOP leaders opposed the motion to adjourn the House, arguing that Pelosi's refusal to schedule a vote allowing offshore drilling is hurting the American economy. They have refused to leave the floor after the adjournment motion passed at 11:23 a.m., and they are busy bashing Pelosi and her fellow Democrats for leaving town for the August recess.

At one point, the lights went off in the House and the microphones were turned off in the chamber, meaning Republicans were talking in the dark. But as Rep. John Shadegg (R-Ariz..) was speaking, the lights went back on and the microphones were turned on shortly afterward.

But C-SPAN, which has no control over the cameras in the chamber, has stopped broadcasting the House floor, meaning no one was witnessing this except the assembled Republicans, their aides, and one Democrat, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), who has now left.

"This is the people's House," said Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-Mich.). "This is not Pelosi's politiburo."

Democratic aides were furious at the GOP stunt, and reporters were kicked out of the Speaker's Lobby, the space next to the House floor where they normally interview lawmakers.

"You're not covering this, are you?" complained one senior Democratic aide. Another called the Republicans "morons" for staying on the floor.

GONE FISHING: DEMOCRATS ELECT TO TAKE VACATION RATHER THAN DEAL WITH ENERGY CRISIS

The Pelosi House Democrats voted for a five week vacation in August and September without taking any action to lower gas prices. Here's the roll call.



No House Republicans joined the Democrats in their vacation vote. GOP.gov issued this statement:

Rep. Adam Putnam (R-FL), Chairman of the House Republican Conference, issued the following statement shortly after the House of Representatives voted 213-212 – with no Republicans voting in the affirmative – to adjourn for five weeks in August and September without taking action to lower gas prices and break our dependence on foreign oil:

"The Democratic Congress should be held in contempt for voting to skip town without dealing with America’s energy crisis.

“Democrats are out of touch, out of excuses, out of support and out of time. Americans are hurting. Independent polls show they overwhelmingly support House Republicans’ all-of-the-above energy solutions.

“It’s time Democrats put their boarding passes back in their pockets and get to work by voting on the American Energy Act.”

The NRCC released this video:

CLIMATE ALARMISTS AT ODDS WITH ONE ANOTHER

After years of pushing biofuels as a countermeasure to man-made global warming, Many of those same global alarmists are now painting Big Biofuel in the same light as Big Oil. Yeah, it seems even wealthy leftists will forsake the global warming marxist movement if they're hungry.

The European Union will ignore critics who accuse it of helping to boost food prices by embracing a binding target for the use of biofuels, officials said Friday.

The European Commission is sticking to its proposal that biofuels account for at least 10 percent of energy used by the EU's huge transportation sector by 2020, because voluntary targets have failed miserably so far, EU spokesman Michael Mann said.

The European Commission has said higher food prices are the result of increased demand for meat and dairy products, particularly in China and India, bad weather in 2006 around the world and speculation in the price of grains and other crops.

Joachim von Braun, the head of the International Food Policy Research Institute, said Europe and the U.S. must “correct political errors” made when they gave approval to an increased production of biofuels without properly researching the effects on food supplies.

It's like a high school girls pillow fight.

WHO IS TO BLAME FOR HIGH GAS PRICES?

This simple illustration explains who is behind high gas prices and who is stopping America from becoming more energy independent.

Percent of Democrats against	Percent of Republicans for
ANWR Exploration
86%	91%
Coal-to-Liquid
78%	97%
Oil Shale Exploration
86%	90%
Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Exploration
83%	81%
Refinery Increased Capacity
96%	97%
SUMMARY
86%	91%

Graphic from Doug Ross.

GLOBAL WARMING FREAKS ARE STARVING PEOPLE TO DEATH

Yes folks. Big Science expects us to take their word with respect to the effects of man-made emissions on global warming. Yet these same big brains couldn't foretell the effect that their advocacy of biofeuls would have on the world food market. For years, they advocated biofeuls as means of replacing fossil feuls. And now, the predictable has happened. Food prices are soaring. Due in large part to the increase in biofeuls.

Developed nations should stop paying agricultural subsidies to encourage biofuel production because the payments are making staple foods more expensive, the Asian Development Bank said Monday.

Biofuels should also be re-examined by governments around the world as it is increasingly unclear how environmentally friendly they are, ADB Managing Director General Rajat Nag said in an interview with The Associated Press. The production of biofuel leads to forests being destroyed and reduced land area for growing crops for food, he said.

"We feel that the developed countries should seriously rethink the whole issue of biofuel, particularly the biofuel subsidies," Nag said. "Giving subsidies for biofuels ... basically acts as an implicit tax on staple foods."

Paying farmers to grow oilseed and other crops to produce biofuels means they grow fewer food crops, resulting in higher prices for such staples as palm oil and corn.

Well this all one big "duh". It didn't take someone in a lab coat to see this happening. People are starving. And these freaks are to blame.