I think this gets close to the inside baseball stuff.
Fox News brings us this story in which the "leader" of the senate, Harry Reid, whom all skateboarders admire, tells reporters that they did not hear what they heard. His stubbornness, petulance and condescension were on display for all to see. Harry Reid demanded more respect for his little tantrums and ignored the best interests of the American people while yelling at reporters.
At a "pen and pad" — a more casual, off-camera chat with reporters — Reid attacked and scolded correspondents in attendance, telling them he's "really disappointed" in how they have been writing his energy plans, which include a bill to reign in speculation in the energy futures markets.
According to two Senate Democratic aides, Reid and other Democratic leaders were particularly stung by an article Thursday in The New York Times. It followed on several other reports that have highlighted Democrats' attempts to fend off defections from their ranks to GOP-sponsored amendments, measures that would permit new drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf and in the West for oil shale.
Reporters tried to pin Reid down Thursday on the amendment issue.
In the exchange, Reid told one reporter she should "watch the [Senate] floor more often. ... You might learn something."
Another reporter explained she had watched the Senate proceedings and said it was not clear he was ... offereing separate amendments, to which Reid asked the reporter if she "spoke English."
"Turn up your Miracle Ear," Reid added.
The new media has been hammering hard on this issue. Whether you listen to talk radio or read the blogs or editorials from WSJ or IVB or NR the message is consistent. It is the Democrats and their environmentalist radical supporters who are against the development of domestic energy. Not just oil, but coal, natural gas, nuclear are all off the table for democrats. What the left wants is American de-industrialization. They want you to sit in your house in the heat, in the dark and sweating. They don't care if you can't get to work. They don't care if you can't afford food.
They don't care about you at all.
If you think that they care about "the little people" remember that these elitists are all incredibly rich. Most of them are baby boomers who never had a hard day in their lives. Many of them are trust fund babies who have not had to work a real job ever. And all of them are insulated from the kind of life that you and I live where working and paying bills is not optional. Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer, Al Gore, Edwards and Obama. They are all rich lefties who don't have to worry about the cost of food or gas. They all went to elite universities. They all live in mansions. They all have far more power than you or I will ever have. They probably can't even remember the last time they filled up their own tanks because their chauffeurs have been doing it for them for so long. They have mansions, limos and private jets. They have armies of attendants to keep the little people away.
They don't care about you. In fact, most of the time they don't even know you exist. Except at election time, that is. Like now.
"We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK," Obama said. "That's not leadership. That's not going to happen," he added.
The Dems have tried to put forth a number of phony claims to rationalize why they don't want to liberate American energy production, such as the story that oil companies have leased land that they are not using. That story has been refuted by pointing out that just because you have a portion of land, there is no guarantee that there must therefore be oil underneath it. Oil companies must play a form of roulette to find oil by looking in many places knowing that some of their effort will not pay off. They pay to look in many places so that they can find the ones that really do have oil. Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are hoping that you, the American citizen, are to dumb to understand the concept of averaging risk. But if you have ever played a game of Bingo you understand that not every card is a winner, and so you play many cards at once to get a winning one.
Nancy Pelosi Says Drilling is a Hoax
Consider Nancy Pelosi's contradictory demand that we open up the strategic oil reserve to bring down prices, and her claim that increased supply does not bring down prices. She says that drilling is a hoax, but is desperate to prevent new drilling by American oil companies. Why the defensiveness if there is no oil on the continental shelf? Why work so hard to prevent oil companies from doing exploration? Why the objection to atomic energy when France and Japan are doing so well using it? Why the contradictory stories?
But of course all these claims have been examined in detail in the new media, and as a result the real story is still getting out to the American people. And they have concluded that Democrats are stonewalling new energy production because of their ties to the hard left environmental movement. I would bet that the Democrat's internal polls are showing them the same thing that public polls are; Americans have come to the conclusion that Democrats don't care about the rest of us paying 4 dollars a gallon for gas as long as the Dems keep getting their big money donations from the hard left environmentalists.
But as hard as they try, the Democrats have been unable to sway American opinion on this issue. And they are worried that the Republicans in the house and senate might rouse themselves from their slumbers and notice that they have a ready made issue for the campaign, if only they would use it.
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