By Art Smith. Posted Tuesday, Sep 9, 2008 at 5:00 am Filed Under: 2008 Congressional Election, ANWR, Accountability, Chuck Grassley, Democrats, Drill Baby Drill, Economy, Energy, Featured, Foreign Oil, If you won't vote for us we won't vote for you, Leonard Boswell, Nancy Pelosi, Tom Harkin, US Congress
Crude oil dropped to $105/bbl Monday, down $1.26. After hours the price continued to fall, as of midnight it was hanging around $102/bbl.
Since hitting it’s high at 147.27 on July 11 (that’s still less than 2 months ago), the price has fallen almost 30%. According to most Democrats, this would only be possible if actual [...]
The price of crude is hovering around $115 / bbl. At this point, I suspect it won’t make much motion, especially not downward, until some real action is finally taken by Congress to open up drilling. I agree with the refrain of Republicans to do “all of the above”, that is, work the alternative energy [...]
By Eric Florack. Posted Thursday, Aug 14, 2008 at 9:45 am Filed Under: 2008 Congressional Election, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, BitsBlog, Democrats, Fairness Doctrine, Featured, First Amendment, Rights, Swamp Stompers, US Congress
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From the Business and Media institute:
There’s a huge concern among conservative talk radio hosts that reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine would all-but destroy the industry due to equal time constraints. But [...]
Allahpundit over at Hot Air brings us news that Republicans in the US House, who staged a dramatic protest Friday over the closing of business in Congress for a month while the Energy issue sits languishing, plan to continue this effort anew on Monday. From House Republican Leader John Boehner’s office :
Washington, Aug [...]
By Art Smith. Posted Wednesday, Jul 30, 2008 at 1:32 pm Filed Under: 2008 Congressional Election, 2008 Presidential Election, Banks, Economy, FairTax, George W. Bush, Housing, Mortgages, TAXES, US Congress
As expected, President Bush signed HR 3221 into law this morning, making billions of federal dollars available to home owners, shoring up Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and providing closer oversight of the financial aspects of home ownership to the Administration and Congress.
What a shame.
After speaking with a good friend of mine that is a [...]
By Art Smith. Posted Tuesday, Jul 29, 2008 at 4:45 pm Filed Under: ANWR, BitsBlog, Business, Conservation, Economy, Energy, Environmentalism, Featured, Foreign Oil, George W. Bush, International Markets, Joe Lieberman, John McCain, Markets, US Congress
Just when you thought you couldn’t afford to go on summer vacation, just when you thought the ONLY answer to rising gasoline prices was a “gas tax holiday“, just as various states are complaining they don’t have enough tax money collected to pay for road work, now oil prices fall to a 3 month low of [...]
By Art Smith. Posted Saturday, Jul 26, 2008 at 10:23 pm Filed Under: Economy, Energy, FairTax, Featured, George W. Bush, Housing, IRS, Military, Mortgages, Nancy Pelosi, Swamp Stompers, TAXES, US Congress
Well, it took almost 3 months, but Congress finally passed the bill today, on older version of which was passed by the House in May, after some considerable back and forth between the Senate and the House. The bill is HR 3221 (pdf), titled: “Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008″.
The entire bill is over [...]
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Interesting. When you’re a total failure as house speaker, what do you do? You call the President a total failure. CNN:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called President Bush “a total failure” on [...]
By Art Smith. Posted Monday, Mar 31, 2008 at 11:30 pm Filed Under: 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, Baseball, Democratic Party, Federal Reserve, George W. Bush, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Republican Party
What a day. I’m sorry, but politically, not one that I’m proud of:
1) Alphonso Jackson resigns as HUD secretary (effective April 18). Few doubt there is something to allegations of favoritism. See my previous posting on the temptations of power.
2) Henry Paulson presents a plan to overhaul the Fed that is not [...]
By Art Smith. Posted Tuesday, Mar 11, 2008 at 10:22 pm Filed Under: George W. Bush, Terrorism, Torture, US Congress
House Republicans made the right choice today when they helped hold the line on Bush’s veto of the bill intended to ban waterboarding.
Democrats are resting on the wrong principle here in trying to protect the rights of terrorists. They are convinced they are on the side of protecting everyone in an effort to do [...]
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