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Landrieu, Louisiana and Drilling
By Dave - Politics DailyThis is what happens when a Democrat embraces domestic energy production. In what was considered by most (including myself) as the most vulnerable senate seat in the country, Mary Landrieu has opened up a 16 point lead. Part of this is a big problem on the part of the Republicans to capitalize on an opportunity, but Rasmussen suggests another possibility.At the same time, Landrieu has been one of the few Democrats to openly support calls for lifting the ban on offshore oil drilling. That issue is very popular with voters nationwide and in Louisiana. Last month's poll found that 75% of ...
Newt Gingrich Joins House Protest
By Dave - Politics DailyVia a RNC memo, the GOP caucus in the House of Representatives is successfully attracting some names to their protest: House Republican leaders confirmed today that former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) will join House Republicans' ongoing national protest over the decision by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to adjourn the House without a vote on legislation to lower gas prices and increase American energy production. The former Speaker will join House Republicans in the Capitol on Wednesday morning to deliver a message of on behalf of the 1.4 million Americans who have signed a petition ...
House GOP Invites McCain To Its Party
By Dave - Politics DailyBoehner and Shadegg are throwing a protest in the recessed House of Representatives, and they hope McCain can join: Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain may be thrust into the public spat between House Republicans and Democrats over the Democratic leadership's decision to take summer recess without vote on offshore oil drilling. The Democratic leadership allowed the legislature's scheduled summer break to begin August 1 without holding an up-or-down vote on increasing domestic oil drilling. Republicans stayed behind to protest the decision and have been delivering speeches ...
About Florida
By Dave - Politics DailyArticle #1 Quinnipiac University reported last week that 60 percent of Florida voters favor drilling offshore in currently protected areas, with 36 percent opposed. Quinnipiac surveyed 1,248 likely Florida voters from July 23 to 29. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.8 percentage points.... Asked to consider their own financial situations, gas prices were the top economic worry for 37 percent of Florida voters, more than double the percentages for any of the other issues, including real estate values, health care costs and food prices. Last paragraph helps to ...
Cracks Appear in Dem No Drilling Wall
By Dave - Politics DailyToday a "gang of 10" senators showed up in the news putting together a plan that puts conservation together with, yes, drilling offshore. Here's Neil Abercrombie, a Democratic Senator from Hawaii: "If we're going to go to talk to the American worker and say we're looking out for their interests, to automatically dismiss the idea that it's possible to drill in the OCS in a way that will be environmentally safe...I think that will harm us politically," Abercrombie said in an interview. Speaking on this proposal, Barack Obama himself appears to be at least preparing to throw his ...
The Price Point for Drilling
By Dave - Politics DailySorry about being a sort of one trick pony with my last few posts about drilling, but it is the salient political issue of the summer and it is generating a lot of good political theater. This one is from Mitch McConnell, who ran this little maneuver yesterday: Obviously this is political theater, Ken Salazar was certainly not going to agree on behalf of the entire Democratic party to drill at a set price. In fact his only role here is to represent his party to stop anything real from happening. But Mitch McConnell takes the opportunity to point out that the current Democratic position ...
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