Last I checked our government was supposed to be a democracy. While we don’t have a true democracy due to elected officials, it is close enough for this discussion. The underlying principle is voting, and it is this principle which is being violated right now in congress.
The Oil Drilling Debate
What I am referring to specifically is the head democrats, namely Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, etc. are not letting a vote to occur on expanded drilling in the outer continental shelf and Alaska. This very act is outright appalling and undermines the vary nature of what Congress was supposed to be. These morons know they will lose because there are even many democrats that support more drilling and the fact that over 70% of the American public want it.
So instead of losing, they won’t even let it happen. They want to introduce laws to limit speculation in the oil markets which does two things. First it allows even more governmental control over free markets by people who have not a clue as to what they are doing and will set a precedent that will allow them to dip their dirty fingers into other markets in the name of “helping out”. Much like taxes in general they end up hurting everyone in the long run for the sake of looking good.
We’ll forget the stalling of voting on judicial candidates, which the republicans have been guilty of in the past as well. This is far more serious and immediate. Very rarely is the public so in favor of any one thing like they are in favor of more drilling and more domestic production and yet they don’t care. It should be illegal and unconstitutional to stop the very thing that they were elected to do. VOTE.
Further Reading
Tags: congress, democrats, republicans
