Letter to Editor
Letter to The Editor
Congress is due to leave DC for “vacation” in a few days. (As if they haven’t been on vacation all year so far). Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are refusing to allow a house vote on the oil drilling situation, even though Senators and Congressmen from both parties, especially the Republicans, are clamoring to vote to drill offshore and other oil rich sites here at home. To allow these two far left Politicians, puppets for the environmentalist dictators, to hold 300 million Americans Citizens captive to their idiotic whims is nothing short of criminal.
The Constitution, Article II, Section 3 states that the President may, on extraordinary occasions, convene both houses of Congress for a special session. Former Presidents have done just that; forced the Senate and the House of Representatives to meet on extraordinary matters of defense or economic peril. Well, we are in economic peril right now due to oil prices, spiraling food prices and increasing prices across the board. Our security is at risk when we depend on hostile foreign countries to supply our oil when we have billions of untapped oil resources right here at home; not to mention coal, solar, and nuclear power. We are sending 700 billion dollars a year to purchase a product that we have right here in the USA. This is idiocy to the max and it needs to stop.
Sixty years ago Harry Truman convened his “do nothing” congress, forcing a vote, and it worked for him. To say we have a “do nothing” Congress today is a gross understatement. I would encourage everybody who hates these gas prices we are dealing with today, (which is most everybody), to contact our Representatives, the White House, John Mc Cain’s Campaign, Talk Radio Hosts and anybody else we can think of and request President Bush convene Congress and make them stay convened until they allow a vote; even if it takes their whole vacation. Otherwise, they’re going to leave us in the lurch while they tool around, enjoying their R&R in their gas guzzling SUV’s, Hummers, Jets, Yachts and so on. In fact, they will most likely leave us hanging, grimacing at the pumps, until after the election. This is inexcusable.
It isn’t difficult to contact our representatives. The Daily Herald is kind enough to list their contact numbers in the paper every day. Email addresses, street address and phone numbers are easy enough to access via the internet.
It is absurd that a country with 300 million citizens allows a handful of politicians to hold us hostage. We vote these people into office to represent us. The majority of citizens want us to drill here. The majority is supposed to rule in the USA. On too many fronts, we aren’t. Politicians have gotten absolutely too big for their britches and we need to knock them off their high horses. They serve us; not the other way around. Speak Up America!!!
Bobbie Kelley
http://speakupamerica.blogtownhall.com
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