Avoiding the real gas cost solution

The press downplays it and outright ignores it, but Congress has tied itself in knots to avoid dealing with the only realistic solution to high gas prices.

Selling out to its environmentalist toadies and seeking to play out the global warming fiction to the hilt, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have refused to put legislation allowing offshore and ANWR oil drilling on the floor, to come to a vote.

They know enough of their own Democratic members would join Republicans to pass it. They refuse to acknowledge the unbridled success of President Bush's lifting of his executive order to ban offshore drilling. Just the threat of more domestic oil supplies has driven oil down over $27 a barrel on world markets in two weeks.

A full congressional approval of more drilling would undoubtedly drive down oil prices even more. The Arab shieks, Venezualan dictators and Russian thugs that are artificially holding up the price of oil, cannot continue to do so, when the U.S. quits being the wounded soldier at their beck and call. The U.S. must be pro-active, taking matters into their own hands.

The American public overwhelmingly supports more drilling. They will show it this fall in the elections, as the issue has already levelled the polls between Barack Obama and John McCain.

Obama must cowtow to his far-left environmentalist backers and maintain the fiction that alternative energy is the only answer to high gas prices. McCain has awakened to smell the coffee and reversed his previous spotty record on drilling, and now backs it, full steam ahead.

Congress is leaving Washington for an undeserved month-long summer recess today, having accomplished virtually nothing for the American taxpayer that elected them. Massive amounts of badly-needed legislation are languishing in Congress, all because it has wasted all its time passing commemorative resolutions, memorials and debating meaningless legislation like curbing alleged oil speculators--while doing nothing to actually solve problems.

Harry Truman got re-elected despite the polls in 1948 by decrying the "Do-nothing Republican Congress" in his famous Give 'Em Hell Harry pose. It's time for McCain and the Republicans to turn the tables, and lay high gas prices at the door of the present do-nothing Democratic Congress.