Congressional Republicans -- and Newt Gingrich (wtf?) -- continue to threaten to shut down the federal government if Pelosi won't allow them an isolated up-or-down vote on oil drilling.
I say: yes! Please, please, pleeease organize Congressional Republicans to stomp their feet and completely shut down the federal government because the majority leader won't give them exactly the vote they want, on the bill they want, when they want it -- a vote for boosting oil company profits without any mention of renewables or efficiency.
Do it. I dare you.
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MattKirby Posted 6:21 am
12 Aug 2008
Haha Good Point
Although remembering back to the last government shut-down, Clinton came out of that ordeal looking every part the hero. The President had stood up to a Republican-dominated Congress and was not about to allow them to pull a fast one. There is the off chance that the same could happen to the Republican cause if Bush were to use a veto against a Democrat-controlled Congress (especially since this is an issue that a terrifyingly high number of Americans support.
But god I hope not.
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