Nancy Pelosi and the gang have left town. There is nothing going to be done for five weeks, not a single appropriation bill — nothing on drilling.
And it was not just four years ago when we saw John Kerry hounding President Bush to go “jawbone” with the Saudis to bring the oil price down? […]

Well, Congress is in recess. (Normally, good news.) They’ll be gone for the rest of the summer. As we approach the fall elections, we should take stock of the enormous benefits that electing a Democrat Congress have brought us.
Their single biggest achievement of the Democrat Congress has been that huge increase in the minimum wage… […]

You parents who have sent your kids or whose kids are at present in Ivy League schools, you might want to think about the education they’re getting just by listening to BARRY HUSSEIN OBAMA, because he is a walking, talking example of the kind of education you come out of Harvard or any of these […]

This past weekend, Lawrence, Massachusetts welcomed Army Staff Sgt. Alex Jimenez home. Fourteen months ago, the 25-year-old was reported missing after he and two other soldiers were captured during an ambush in Iraq.On Saturday, Sgt. Jimenez’s flag-draped casket, resting atop a horse-drawn carriage, was somberly escorted by members of the 10th Mountain Division through flag-lined […]

The New Yorker magazine has a cover out, and of course Obama and his side are going nuts.
Now, the New Yorker is a bunch of socialists, a bunch of liberals. On the cover of The New Yorker, a satire making fun of the way some of the right wing supposedly thinks about Obama. […]

Bin Laden a long time ago said he was going to bankrupt our nation, and with all the chaos that’s been going on with oil and housing and food and all these things.
Bin Laden did say he wanted to bankrupt America. This is before 9/11, I believe, and he hoped that 9/11 would do […]

The Politico:
“More Americans now view energy as a serious concern than at the low point of the 1979 energy crisis, according to a Politico analysis of historical Gallup Polls. And the percentage of voters who consider energy issues ‘very important’ in determining their vote has also risen dramatically since the last election, from 54 percent […]

You know the old rule of thumb in politics was for each party during the primaries, you go gangbusters here as far extreme to the left or right as you need to to get your base and get the nomination, then the old Nixon theory, and once you go to the general, you moderate and […]

There’s a new Zogby poll out that says:
“Americans are feeling slightly more optimistic this month as they come to grips with a struggling economy and an uncertain future, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday. The Reuters/Zogby Index, which measures the mood of the country, rose sharply to 95.5, up from 87.7 in […]

hearings — Day 1
I watched Carl Levin give his speech, his opening statement, he’s talking to General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker, and he’s going on and on and on about how the Maliki government in Iraq has not met its benchmarks and has not found a way to pay its own way on anything, and […]