After Friday's TRIUMPH, Pelosi tells House members it's okay to vote for offshore drilling...

...if it will help them at home. (Reported this last hour on msnbc.)

I can't help feeling that if Obama had stood strong on this Pelosi wouldn't be making such a statement.

If Will Rogers is right that, "given a Republican and a Democrat who acts like one, Americans will vote for the Republican every time," our side is making a big mistake.

imo undecided voters will just see this as an admission that the Republicans had it right ~ wouldn't it have been better to launch a BOLD OFFENSIVE campaign to call them on their gimmicks and educate voters??

:mad:

I can understand during an election year where rumblings about drilling offshore in the present energy climate could be tolerated, but to specifically give the go-ahead is very different. "Showing openness" to the idea of offshore drilling is a far cry from sending the troops off to vote for it. Right now, Arnold is my hero on the drilling issue. Would that the Dems had his conviction. Would that the Dems tell people the truth about all the fossil fuel options.

Nancy and the rest of the 2006 Dems have been a huge disappointment with the exception of a notable few. May Cindy win in her stead.

Whining that they are afraid to be called "obstructionist" is just laughable, with the pukes having a record 76 filibusters at my last count. The pukes aren't scared of it and it just makes the Dems' timid gamesmanship that much more pathetic.

...just a few hours after House Dems left Republicans in the dark ~ seems like a glaring lack of communication between the various parties. My question is, why did Obama make that statement at that moment ~ is it possible that he didn't know what had happened in the House?

I thought they might be playing bad cop/good cop ~ now it looks like a complete cop cave-in.


Dems across the board have been unwilling to play hardball.

and all the others who are caving in to the lies about our energy needs. sickening.

...the football players and cheerleaders who are popular in spite of their vile ways.

:shrug:

no wonder Repubs win most of the time over generations

Why can't someone like Wexler, Waxman, or Ryan be the leaders in the house?

That's the thing that fools Americans into voting for Republicans ~ they BOLDLY stand by their bad positions, while Dems CAVE in spite of their brilliant positions.

but at least they stick to them, and apparently American voters prefer muleheaded stubborness to waffling, I mean shifting, I mean vascillating, I mean..... refining one's position.

...turned off the House lights and left for vacation, while Republicans sat in the dark and protested.