Pelosi

[Soldier4Christ]

Pelosi's Big-Wind Boondoogle



HOUSE Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently called congressional Republicans who want up-or-down drilling votes "hand maidens of the oil companies." Let's call Pelosi what she is: House girl of the Big Wind boondogglers.

Pelosi refuses to consider GOP energy proposals that don't include massive government subsidies for so-called eco-alternatives that have never panned out.

Which brings us to Pelosi's 2007 financial disclosure form. Schedule III lists "Assets and 'Unearned Income' " of $100,001 to $250,000 from Clean Energy Fuels Corp. - Public Common Stock. Clean Energy Fuels Corp. (CLNE) is a natural-gas provider founded by T. Boone Pickens, the former oilman turned wind-power evangelist.

Pickens and Pelosi both downplay the need to drill for more US oil. Instead, the Pickens plan proposes to replace natural gas with wind power in power generation and free up natural gas for transportation needs.

Let's be real about the limitations and costs of wind power: Experience demonstrates the unreliability of wind and the miserably low operating capacity of wind-power facilities here and around the world. Depending on wind requires supplemental fossil-fuel plants as backup to be turned on and off to compensate for wind-power-supply shortfalls - nullifying any reductions in carbon-dioxide emissions.

Naturally, the Pickens Big Wind plan is proudly endorsed by Pelosi's friends at the Sierra Club. Through another company, Mesa Power, Pickens has committed upward of $12 billion in wind farms on the Texas panhandle. CLNE and Mesa Power are separate entities, but what benefits one piece of the Pickens puzzle benefits them all. The wind venture, as Pickens himself admits, depends on permanent federal subsidies.

Pickens is banking on 'em. And Pelosi is banking on him. She bought between $50,000 and $100,000 worth of stock in Pickens' CLNE Corp. in May 2007 on the day of the initial public offering:

"She, and other investors, stand to gain a substantial return on their investment if gasoline prices stay high, and municipal, state and even the federal governments start using natural gas as their primary fuel source," reported dontgomovement.com.

CLNE also happens to be the sponsor of Proposition 10, a ballot initiative in Pelosi's home state of California to dole out $10 billion in state and federal funds for renewable-energy incentives - namely, natural gas and wind.

Follow the money. Or, to put it in economist's terms, as energy analyst Kenneth Medlock III did in The Dallas Morning News about the Pickens multibillion-dollar wind-farm investment: "A lot of what he's trying to do is add value to a stranded asset . . . he's obviously got millions of dollars on the line."

And so, potentially, does Pelosi - all the while wagging her finger at the financial motivation of others.

[HisDaughter]

Pelosi told: Planet has already been saved ... by Jesus
Congresswoman hits speaker: 'We all know that someone did that over 2,000 years ago'



Continuing her push for a comprehensive energy plan that includes increased oil drilling, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., reminded Americans that the Democrats message to save the planet doesn’t add up. The world has been saved already, she says.

Responding to Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s comment about creating an energy policy to help save the planet, Bachmann added religion to the energy crisis during her interview with OneNewsNow, a Web site run by Christian American Family News Network.

“[Pelosi] is committed to her global warming fanaticism to the point where she has said that she’s just trying to save the planet,” Bachmann said. “We all know that someone did that over 2,000 years ago, they saved the planet — we didn’t need Nancy Pelosi to do that.”

Bachmann said Democratic leaders are committed to stopping bills that allow drilling. Bachmann plans to join other Republicans in the House chamber on Friday to continue their protest during the congressional recess to bring members back for a vote on an energy bill.

The Minnesota DFL released a statement Tuesday denouncing the protest at the Capitol, calling it an “Olympics of meaningless rhetoric.

According to the statement, Republicans “would rather grandstand in a meaningless charade in Washington that will do nothing to reduce the cost of gas or the overall economic squeeze on Minnesota’s working families.”

Bachmann’s recent comments are reminiscent of her earlier religious comments in 2006 at the Living Word Church in Brooklyn Park when she said she was “hot” for Jesus.

“What does God say when he looks at you or looks at me? He wants to say, ‘she’s hot, he’s hot,’ because we are hot for him on the inside,” Bachmann said. “When you are hot for Jesus Christ, nothing is like that life.”

I love her!

[HisDaughter]

Top 10 Energy Questions For Speaker Pelosi
by U.S. Congressman Kevin Brady
08/11/2008

10. Two years ago, you said, “Democrats have a common-sense plan to lower gas prices.” Since you took over as Speaker of the House fuel prices have nearly doubled, which is punishing American families. Will you be releasing that common-sense plan anytime soon??

9. So far, your Democratic House of Representatives has done nothing but propose gimmicks. Your first energy gimmick was to pass a law that allows America to sue OPEC, apparently so we can become more dependent upon Middle East oil. This is puzzling to most Americans. Remind us again what that accomplishes??

8. Your second gimmick was “Use it or Lose it,” based on the notion that millions of acres of land with vast energy reserves are leased by oil companies but not being developed. Unfortunately, no independent geological association in America agreed with that wild claim. And during debate on the House floor, Democrats couldn’t identify even one acre where that was happening. How embarrassing was that??

7. Your next gimmick was to stop filling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which is the nest egg for America’s energy security if a major foreign country cuts off fuel to the United States. You predicted that fuel prices would go down, but instead they continued to rise. Was that more embarrassing or less embarrassing than the “Use it or Lose it” fiasco??

6. Apparently assuming that failed ideas are reassuring to the public, recently you proposed to sell off 10% of our Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which you also predict will lower fuel prices. Unfortunately, that equals just 3.5 days of American oil, which changes nothing, so that gimmick collapsed on the House floor. Do you have any more ideas related to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, like selling it to China or donating it to a Hollywood charity??

5. You keep saying Republicans are beholden to Big Oil, which you despise and accuse of obscene profiteering. But I noticed your Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has accepted a whopping $809,000 from energy special interests this session -- which I’m sure you’ll want to return. I’m just curious, but when can those oil companies expect their checks back??

4. Turning to your unique interpretation of the Constitution, you have stated repeatedly that the House of Representatives will not get a vote on exploring for more energy here in America, such as in our deep ocean waters or U.S. Arctic Reserve, no matter that the American public supports it 2-1. In your mind, do you believe America is a democracy or a dictatorship??

3. Two weeks ago you hastily shut down the House floor, turned off the lights, microphones and cameras so that the American public could not hear Republicans debate the energy crisis and the need for Congress to stay in session to pass an energy bill rather than head out on a five-week vacation. Do you still believe in open government and the freedom of speech, or did all that change when you became Speaker??

2. Last Sunday on the news show This Week you said Republicans would have to “get creative” to receive an up-or-down vote on the House floor to explore for more energy here in America. Our founding fathers were creative, too. They established a legislative body where the pressing issues of the day would be openly debated and the majority will of the elected representatives prevails. Are you afraid that, if a vote were taken, you would lose? Isn’t America supposed to be a democracy of the people??

1. Americans don’t get a vacation from high gas prices, but you sent Congress on a leisurely five-week vacation. Republicans have stood on the House floor all recess and pleaded with you to call Congress back into session and schedule an up-or-down vote on exploring for more oil and gas here in America. Aren’t American families and small businesses who are getting hammered by high gas prices more important than your book tour??

This was great!  Emailed to my family and friends.

[Shammu]

HOUSE Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently called congressional Republicans who want up-or-down drilling votes "hand maidens of the oil companies." Let's call Pelosi what she is: House girl of the Big Wind boondogglers.

How about a dictator..........

Pelosi refuses to consider GOP energy proposals that don't include massive government subsidies for so-called eco-alternatives that have never panned out.

When a motion is made, she can't refuse that motion....... Least according to "Roberts Rules of Order".

"She, and other investors, stand to gain a substantial return on their investment if gasoline prices stay high, and municipal, state and even the federal governments start using natural gas as their primary fuel source," reported dontgomovement.com.

And she talks about Republicans being in league with the oil companies.

CLNE also happens to be the sponsor of Proposition 10, a ballot initiative in Pelosi's home state of California to dole out $10 billion in state and federal funds for renewable-energy incentives - namely, natural gas and wind.

What about the hot air, Pelosi puts out every time she talks??

[Soldier4Christ]

When a motion is made, she can't refuse that motion....... Least according to "Roberts Rules of Order".

There are many tactics that can be used to prevent a motion from being made and she and her cohorts have been doing a really good job with that blocking.

[Soldier4Christ]

Playing Political Games, Dems to Offer Drilling Bill of Their Own

Sensing blood in the water, their own blood that is, House Democrats will offer a bill that includes drilling. But somehow I don’t believe that it is a genuine drilling bill. Let’s investigate.

The al-Reuters headline reads:

Democrats to offer bill with offshore oil drilling

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Saturday when the U.S. Congress returns next month from its summer recess, Democrats will offer legislation that could give oil companies drilling access to more offshore areas.

By moving to open additional federal waters to energy exploration, Democrats could narrow the differences they have with Republicans on tackling America’s energy problems, a concern that ranks high with voters heading into the November presidential and congressional elections.

This is a setup America. They want to be appearing to be taking action on the energy crisis BEFORE the election because they now perceive it as beneficial to their political ambitions. But if you think for a moment that anything they consider is genuine OR will actually pass, take another hit of that bong lefty because you are delusional.

Democrats do not want additional drilling and if they must submit to more drilling offshore, they will want some additional spending for pet projects that will have nothing to do with energy production or for futile “alternative energy” programs that are already over-funded and have no chance of contributing to energy independence in the foreseeable future.

So what is the catch? According to the Wicked Witch of the West herself…

    In the Democrats’ weekly radio address, Pelosi of California said expanding drilling areas would be part of a broader bill which addresses other energy issues.

    “It will consider opening portions of the (offshore) Outer Continental Shelf for drilling, with appropriate safeguards, and without taxpayer subsidies to Big Oil,” she said.

    Pelosi said the legislation would require oil companies to pay billions of dollars in drilling royalties, which would be invested in clean energy resources.

That’s right, she wants to cut into the measly 9 percent profit margin in order to fund these massively expensive “alternative fuels” projects that, AGAIN, HAVE NO HOPE OF REDUCING AMERICA’S DEPENDENCY ON FOREIGN OIL IN THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE. None, nada, no-way Jose.

What does House Minority Leader John Boehner have to say?

    House Republican leader John Boehner of Ohio said the Democratic proposal falls short of Republican-sponsored legislation that would open more areas to oil drilling, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.

    “While the speaker now claims to embrace a comprehensive energy plan that includes more conservation, more innovation, and more American energy production, the fact is her new effort appears to be just another flawed plan that will do little to lower gas prices,” Boehner said.

    He said if Pelosi was serious about boosting domestic oil supplies, she would call the House back into session to take up such a bill. Congress is scheduled to return on September 8.

People if the oil companies are going to have subsidies cut and a tax levied on their profits, what incentive will they have to begin drilling? And who do you actually think will pay for these losses in revenue to the oil companies? WE WILL!

Pelosi’s pie-in-the-sky ambitions to “save the planet” are going to bankrupt American families. This left coast liberal (socialist) wants to spread her San Francisco brand of liberalism (socialism) into fly-over country. But Nancy doesn’t realize that it takes an awful lot of gasoline for us out here in fly-over country to function.

Nancy hopes to begin to profit from the Pickens Plan and that is her personal goal (beyond her political goals). I’ll guarantee that should the Dem plan actually pass, some of the “royalties” money that she wants to embezzle from oil companies will make their way into the hands of T. Boone Pickens and increase the value of her stock in his companies.

It is time to reject Pelosi and the “Gang of 10″. Support the Republicans holding the rogue session in the House and push for passage of their bill. And while we’re at it, don’t fall for her political ploy. Democrats are not interested in solving our oil dependency problems. They want the US dependent. It gives them power. Our only hope is a true Conservative takeover of Congress in November.

[HisDaughter]

Joseph Farah
WND Commentary
August 16, 2008

Let me give you a glimpse of the kind of world we will be living in for the next few years under the rulership of Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and Barbara Boxer as, in all likelihood, the totalitarian-minded Democrats strengthen their stranglehold of power over both houses of Congress.

Sometimes you can't see the forest for the trees.

You can look at outrageous new wealth-redistribution plans. You can look at proposals to kill free expression with the reintroduction of the so-called "Fairness Doctrine." You can look at the way the leadership is salivating over a massive new amnesty program for illegal aliens that will forever change the character of the United States.

All of that is important – but a little hard for the average American to get his mind around.

But try this.

(Column continues below)

     


Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., is one of the real good guys in Congress – a man who knows, respects and reveres the Constitution and its commitment to limited government. He is the author of a great book, "Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders." He's a man of principle, common sense and, most of all, decency.

So what happens to a guy like this in an institution run by sociopaths like Reid, Pelosi and Boxer?


Sen. Tom Coburn

If you haven't already heard, prepare to be shocked.

The Senate Ethics Committee, chaired by Boxer, is accusing Coburn of a "serious violation of the Senate rules."

What has he done?

Has he accepted graft?

Has he promoted ideas that are anathema to the American way of life?

Has he cheated on his dying wife?

Has he taken advantage of congressional pages or interns?

No, he hasn't done any of those things.

Coburn was and is a medical doctor. And he has continued to treat a few patients. Specifically what has Boxer's secret inquisition in an uproar is the fact that he has delivered some babies in his home district!

But it gets worse.

Apparently what makes this sin so egregious are Senate restrictions on outside income. But Coburn is doing this for free as a public service!

Now let's remember that Boxer and her Democratic cohorts are the ones always screaming about the high cost of medical care. It is because of that they seek to empower the federal government to run the entire health-care industry. This, they believe, would be the ultimate act of "compassion."

You want a baby? Check with Beijing – er, I mean Washington.

But here's a senator who is actually personally involved in specific acts of genuine compassion – delivering babies for free for his long-standing patients.

This is seen as a "serious violation of Senate rules."

Coburn, however, isn't so easily intimidated. In character for him, he responds: "On my own time, I'm taking care of women who have a need, and I'm going to continue to deliver babies. I'm not going to stop."

If more Republicans had this guy's backbone and intestinal fortitude, the party might actually be a viable alternative to the pathological Democrats. May his flock indeed prosper and multiply.

Think about this.

Would Boxer and company, meeting in secrecy, ever contemplate filing ethics charges against one of their own for providing free health care to the public?

Or, how about this: Would Boxer and company ever seriously consider censuring a member of the Senate who was moonlighting as an abortionist? My guess? They would come up with a new humanitarian-of-the-year award for their colleague.

Stand tall, Sen. Coburn. The attacks against you by these vermin are a testament to your integrity.

[Soldier4Christ]

They won't even charge one of their own for doing any of those things mentioned:

Has he accepted graft?

Has he promoted ideas that are anathema to the American way of life?

Has he cheated on his dying wife?

Has he taken advantage of congressional pages or interns?

and some even worse. Instead they give them a pat on the back by giving them more gratuities and assigning them on more committees.

[nChrist]

Wanted: Nancy Pelosi, a susect in the torture and murder of Democracy.

Great thread! YES - Pelosi does deserve her own thread. JUST THINK - many of the things we're watching every day now really are like a trip into the Twilight Zone. If the same things happened 10 years ago, many of them would have been put in prison.

ARE THESE SIGNS OF THE TIMES? I think the possible answer is "YES"! Regardless, I still think that the people should expend every effort to set things right. When I hear or see the name "Pelosi", I think immediately of someone riding in and presiding over a gay pride parade in San Francisco. How would the same circumstances have gone over just 10 years ago? It isn't just INSANITY and EVIL in this part of the world - RATHER the entire world. Isn't that what we're watching? As Christians, I think that we should have more than just a clue about what's going on. IS THE GREAT RESTRAINER OF THE DEVIL BEING REMOVED?

THE GREAT RESTRAINER OF THE DEVIL IS THE HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD. This is just one function of THE HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD. As Christians, we have the HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD living in our hearts. The Holy Bible doesn't tell us a lot about THE GREAT RESTRAINER, but we know this is a function of the HOLY SPIRIT. The HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD can and does work through Christians. The HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD has awesome power that's infinitely greater than anything that we've ever seen or could imagine. HE does live in us, but this doesn't mean that we can beat the devil. ONLY CHRIST HIMSELF CAN BEAT THE DEVIL, AND HE WILL AT HIS SECOND COMING!

SO, we are watching increasing EVIL, and it doesn't appear that we can stop it. This doesn't hint that we should lay down and stop trying. We still have a fight to finish, and we shouldn't give the devil anything easily. When we talk about giving the devil something, we are really talking about letting the devil have our children and family members without a struggle. The time will come when Christians are RAPTURED and removed completely from this earth. Until then, we have GOD to be with us and help us - AND WE DO HAVE A FIGHT THAT MUST BE FOUGHT!

Love In Christ,
Tom

Favorite Bible Quotes 202 - Isaiah 5:20-23 Woe unto them that call
evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for
darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! 21 Woe unto
them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
22 Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to
mingle strong drink: 23 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take
away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

[HisDaughter]

When I hear or see the name "Pelosi", I think immediately of someone riding in and presiding over a gay pride parade in San Francisco.

When I hear the name "Pelosi" (although I know it doesn't pertain to her) I always think of:

Revalation 19:1-3

 1After this I heard what sounded like the roar of a great multitude in heaven shouting:
   "Hallelujah!
   Salvation and glory and power belong to our God,
    2for true and just are his judgments.
   He has condemned the great prostitute
      who corrupted the earth by her adulteries.
   He has avenged on her the blood of his servants." 3And again they shouted:
   "Hallelujah!
   The smoke from her goes up for ever and ever."

[Soldier4Christ]

Looks like a few too many face lifts. 

[Shammu]

When I hear the name "Pelosi" I think of pestilence!!

[nChrist]

When I hear the name "Pelosi" I think of pestilence!!

Brother, "Pestilence" fits her well. I think that the entire world will learn the meaning of this word in a literal manner soon. Knowledge of many other horrors will accompany it for 7 years. At the end of the 7 years, JESUS CHRIST will COME AGAIN and prove to the survivors that HE IS GOD and ALWAYS HAS BEEN. HE will take HIS rightful THRONE, and the world will finally know PEACE - PEACE THAT ONLY THE PRINCE OF PEACE CAN ESTABLISH! These things are probably near - the SOONER - the BETTER!

[Soldier4Christ]

Nancy Pelosi on drilling: “Can we drill your brains?”

You stay classy, Pioneer Pelosi:

    House Democratic leaders and protesters waving McCain signs had a war of words Tuesday at a press event outside an old train station. The demonstrators interrupted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with chants of “Drill here! Drill now!”

    Pelosi paused and asked the group, “Right here?”

    Seeming to enjoy the back and forth, she followed with another question: “Can we drill your brains?”

    She went on to refer to the protesters, who continued to chant sporadically, as “handmaidens of Big Oil.” Arguing that increased offshore drilling would reduce gas prices by only a couple of pennies a decade from now, she referred to the demonstrators as the “2-cents-in-10-years-crowd.”

    Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer swiped at the demonstrators, too, saying that “sophomoric chanting” won’t solve the energy crisis and that “all thinking Americans know” — stressing the word “thinking” and looking at the crowd — that America doesn’t have a quarter of the word’s fossil fuels yet uses a quarter of the world’s energy.

When you don’t have anything intelligent to add, what do you do? Name call and use insults, the preferred tactics of liberals everywhere!

[HisDaughter]

Nancy Pelosi on drilling: “Can we drill your brains?”

You stay classy, Pioneer Pelosi:



When you don’t have anything intelligent to add, what do you do? Name call and use insults, the preferred tactics of liberals everywhere!

"I know!  We could have a spelling contest!"
Val Kilmer in "Tombstone"

I know it's my second reference to that movie this week but it fits and I love Val Kilmer as Doc Holiday in it.  Anyone ever see it besides me?  I'm sure you have. It's one of my all time favorites.  Good over evil.  Another really great one is "Wanted Dead or Alive" with Rutger Haur (sp?).  He chases down a terrorist played by Gene Simmons.  If you haven't seen it, I won't ruin it for you.  The ending is classic!

Okay, okay, I'll stop.  I realize I'm not in the "Movies" section of the forum......