Congress adjourns for August recess, but Republicans won't leave

Congress adjourns for August recess...

but Republicans won't leave
Friday, August 01, 2008

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AP.Google.com website has this report up this afternoon and it starts off like this... The last House vote before a vacation usually sparks a stampede toward the doors and waiting planes. Not so Friday, when Republicans occupied the House floor for a rare, and at times bizarre, protest against Democratic energy policies... The microphones were off, the House had stopped TV feeds to C-Span and the lights dimmed after the pre-noon vote to adjourn for the August recess. That didn't deter Republicans, who one after another rose to demand that Congress stay in session until it does something about high gas prices... Unlike a normal session where the rules of decorum are strictly enforced, GOP lawmakers and their aides who filled the chamber clapped, chanted, gave standing ovations and booed the Democrats...
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Congress is gone, but Republicans won't leave
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* Charles Krauthammer has this great Op-Ed piece at the Washington Post website today and it starts off like this... House Speaker Nancy Pelosi opposes lifting the moratorium on drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and on the Outer Continental Shelf. She won't even allow it to come to a vote. With $4 gas having massively shifted public opinion in favor of domestic production, she wants to protect her Democratic members from having to cast an anti-drilling election-year vote. Moreover, given the public mood, she might even lose. This cannot be permitted. Why? Because, as she explained to Politico: "I'm trying to save the planet; I'm trying to save the planet."...
Make sure to read the rest at link below...
Pelosi: Save the Planet, Let Someone Else Drill

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Go Republicans, go!!!
I don’t know about you but I’m fixing to send a flood of emails to the White House over the weekend and try to do my part in getting President Bush to Call The House Back for an emergency session...
AubreyJ........