Sep 17 2008
Lindsey Graham Sham Passes House
The House passed H.R. 6899 last night, otherwise known as the Comprehensive American Energy Security and Consumer Protection Act. As I touched on yesterday, this is the House version of Lindsey Graham’s “Gang of 10″ bill that will do absolutely nothing to open up oil reserves off of our shores and lower gas prices. This bill is nothing more than political cover so that politicians can go into the November election lying to their constituents that they voted for offshore drilling, when they didn’t. Most of the coastal oil reserves will remain untapped under this bill and will have no effect. Furthermore, the states will get no royalties from the drilling, so which state is going to okay this and take the slight risk of an oil spill without any revenue from it? None of them will and Nancy Pelosi knows that. Let’s not forget the tax increase the oil companies will receive as well which will get passed on to you and me when we’re buying our gas.
So who in the Carolinas voted for this hoax? Who will lie to you between now and Election Day and claim they voted to lower your prices at the pump? A lot of them.
Voting aye were:
- G.K. Butterfield (D-NC-01)
- Bob Etheridge (D-NC-02)
- Walter Jones (R-NC-03)
- David Price (D-NC-04)
- Mike McIntyre (D-NC-07)
- Robin Hayes (R-NC-08)
- Heath Shuler (D-NC-11)
- Mel Watt (D-NC-12)
- Brad Miller (D-NC-13)
- Bob Inglis (R-SC-04)
- John Spratt (D-SC-05)
- Jim Clyburn (D-SC-06)
Is there any way to stop this?
The Senate could filibuster or the President could veto it. That’s about it.