Chris Matthews on DNCTV and his show, Hardball. MATTHEWS: I don’t understand why the Democratic Party doesn’t do to the Republicans what the Republicans did to the Democrats back in 1980 when we had a fuel crisis. You got gasoline going to five bucks a gallon. Everybody knows that. It could be at six by […]

< Part 1 of 4 – see links below > We finally have an issue, an issue that represents a goal for the United States of America: Energy independence, drilling for our own oil and our own natural gas. Finally, the president of the United States is willing to lead the charge on this. I […]

Big Oil is under the big spot lights in the Senate. The Senate Judiciary Committee headed up by Senator Pat Leahy is grilling Big Oil, as they always do when these prices jump to points that have the public outraged, and of course what ought to happen here is that the Big Oil execs ought […]

Economic news: “The number of US workers filing claim for initial jobless benefits fell…” FELL! This means that fewer people filed for unemployment compensation. It “fell more than expected.” Is that just a template now, “more than expected“? It’s probably a keystroke, like Command-E. “More than expected.” Just do that rather than type the words. […]

Gas Crisis… “House Republican leaders on Tuesday challenged Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to release a plan to lower gas prices that they say Democrats touted when they were in the minority. ‘Two years ago this week, you stated that House Democrats had a “commonsense plan” to “lower gas prices,“‘ the letter said. ‘In light of […]