GOP House Revolt Over Oil Drilling Gets Ignored or Buried
August 2, 2008 - 12:12 ET
On Friday, NewsBusters wondered how much attention media would pay to the Republican revolt that occurred after Speaker Pelosi adjourned the House for a five week vacation without allowing a vote on offshore oil drilling.
It turns out that if you rely on the evening news programs of the three broadcast networks, you didn't hear about this extraordinary event at all .
And, if you're one of the few people that still reads newspapers, the one thrown on your driveway Saturday morning likely also ignored this story, or buried it well off the front page.
Conceivably the worst of the network offenders was the "NBC Nightly News" which actually addressed the fact that Congress adjourned without a vote on drilling, but completely ignored the GOP revolt that ensued afterwards
C'mon dithers, it's been proven time after time that the MSM is not biased towards the Democrats or Obama in any way, shape or form.
Jeez, get on the program dithers, drink deeply of the Kool-Aid. /sarc
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dithersPosted:
Mon Aug 04, 2008 4:16 pm
We're being held hostage by a classic California kook - Nancy Pelosi. How very frightening to think that she's third in line for the Presidency.
She told George Stephanopoulos that she was not allowing this vote because she "was trying to save the planet". If she wants to push such an agenda by working as an enrivonmentalist whacko lobbyist then more power to her. But she doesn't have the right as Speaker of the House to hold America hostage to her kook ideas.
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dithersPosted:
Mon Aug 04, 2008 4:18 pm
Phantom wrote:
C'mon dithers, it's been proven time after time that the MSM is not biased towards the Democrats or Obama in any way, shape or form.
Jeez, get on the program dithers, drink deeply of the Kool-Aid. /sarc
Without naming names there are many I've tangled with on RU who still deny the MSM is in the tank for the libs. If they aren't convinced by this story they never will be.
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PhantomPosted:
Mon Aug 04, 2008 4:30 pm
dithers wrote:
Without naming names there are many I've tangled with on RU who still deny the MSM is in the tank for the libs. If they aren't convinced by this story they never will be.
Here's a picture of one of those people,
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dithersPosted:
Mon Aug 04, 2008 5:04 pm
Phantom wrote:
Here's a picture of one of those people,
I think the blinders are a bit too small.
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PhantomPosted:
Mon Aug 04, 2008 8:04 pm
Liberal Press Circles Wagons Around Obama
The liberal media are unhinged over John McCain's recent ad campaign against Barack Obama, which erased Obama's 9-point lead in the polls and tied the race. How dare McCain challenge their anointed one?
Obama is not the only one convinced he is "the one we've been waiting for." The media are also annoyed they have to endure this irritating uprising from McCain, who is officiously intermeddling with the inexorable flow of history.
Sunday show hosts, editorial pages, and both print and TV news stories this past weekend were pregnant with outrage over McCain's "negative" campaigning -- "negative" being defined as anything, truthful or not, that places Obama in a less favorable light than they require.
Their attitude toward Obama is not unlike their approach to the global warming issue: They accept the environmentalists' edict that man-made, apocalyptic warming is occurring, and no one is allowed to dissent.
So if McCain exposes Obama's policy inconsistencies, questions his character, highlights his presumptuousness, inexperience or superficiality, lampoons the media's crush on him, criticizes his injection of race into the campaign, or responds to Obama's attacks, the media yell "foul."
Newsweek's Jonathan Alter is a good example. It's not just that McCain is using unfair tactics against Obama but also that he's straying from the liberal line that earned Alter's and other liberal journalists' favor in the first place. Coursing through Alter's entire piece "Where Have You Gone, John?" is the unwritten charge that McCain is crossing the line merely by staying in the race. But to confront Obama on issues that matter, that's downright heresy.
What are McCain's capital offenses generating such media outrage? He has depicted Obama as a flip-flopper. He has accused him of arrogance and putting politics above the national interest in refusing to acknowledge the success of the surge and sticking with his demand for immediate withdrawal. McCain had the temerity to make light of Obama's pop celebrity by interposing Obama's image with those of Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. McCain accused Obama of playing the race card when suggesting Republicans would attempt to frighten white voters by pointing out that he doesn't look like past U.S. presidents depicted on our greenbacks. McCain parodied Obama's messianic image in likening him to Charlton Heston's Moses parting the Red Sea. And he accused him of canceling his scheduled stop to visit wounded soldiers in Iraq allegedly because media cameras would not be available.
Alter was livid, calling McCain "a surprisingly immature politician -- erratic, impulsive and subject to peer pressure from the last knucklehead who offers him advice." McCain's "lame" tactics, in Alter's opinion, are "out of sync with the real guy." The "real guy" is that Republican who endeared himself to the likes of Alter by attacking fellow Republicans, not superior liberal Democrats. He should be attacking corporate greed, not Barack Obama. This can't be the real John McCain. The real John McCain would put the final nail in the GOP coffin and concede the race.
Surprisingly, The Washington Post's editorial page editor, Fred Hiatt, put his finger precisely on the liberal mindset concerning Republican challenges to their Democratic rivals and their policies. Hiatt says it is "an article of faith among many Democratic believers … that Democratic policies are so obviously superior, and so much more in the interest of a majority of voters, that only some form of chicanery can explain Republican election victories. In this view of the world, Republican operatives … manipulate … issues … to deceive people to vote against their economic self-interest. Or they inflate security threats to frighten them into voting against their self-interest." Bingo and kudos.
With the exception of the charge that Obama canceled his troop visit because cameras wouldn't be present, all of the other supposed McCain offenses listed above are anything but dirty politics. And Obama, by the way, did cancel his visit to meet the wounded soldiers, even if his reason wasn't photo op-related. McCain has a right to expose Obama, his flawed policies, flip-flops, hypocrisy, unfair tactics and character flaws. Indeed, he has a duty to do so.
Campaigns are supposed to inform voters, and all questions should be on the table. It is not negative campaigning to enlighten voters about your opponents' positions on the issues, his qualifications or his character, so long as the information is truthful. Negative campaigning is smearing your opponent through lies and deceit.
But while we're on the subject of honest campaigning, perhaps it is time for Obama to be truthful about who he is and what he stands for instead of scrupulously concealing those things.
But the truth will come out eventually. And if you think the media are squawking now, just wait till the campaign proceeds to the point that Obama's policy and racial radicalism receive the exposure they deserve.
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SiddaleePosted:
Mon Aug 04, 2008 10:05 pm
dithers wrote:
We're being held hostage by a classic California kook - Nancy Pelosi. How very frightening to think that she's third in line for the Presidency.
She told George Stephanopoulos that she was not allowing this vote because she "was trying to save the planet". If she wants to push such an agenda by working as an enrivonmentalist whacko lobbyist then more power to her. But she doesn't have the right as Speaker of the House to hold America hostage to her kook ideas.
Very, very scarey. She is a kook!
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dithersPosted:
Tue Aug 05, 2008 4:15 pm
Day #3 and who would know? The GOP House members are still meeting on the house floor. The Dems are still gone on (5 weeks!) vacation. Shameful.
This should be a major news headline. Instead one needs to hunt to find updates on the story.
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dithersPosted:
Wed Aug 06, 2008 3:15 pm
dithers wrote:
Day #3 and who would know? The GOP House members are still meeting on the house floor. The Dems are still gone on (5 weeks!) vacation. Shameful.
This should be a major news headline. Instead one needs to hunt to find updates on the story.
Day #4 and who would know? The GOP House members are still meeting on the house floor. The Dems are still gone on (5 weeks!) vacation. Shameful.
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PhantomPosted:
Thu Aug 07, 2008 6:57 am
GOP Planning to Revolt Right Up to Dem Convention
House Republicans are gearing up to continue their revolt of Congress’ adjournment for at least the next two weeks – right up to the start of the Democratic Convention in Denver – according to a memo sent Wednesday to GOP members from Minority Leader John Boehner.
“Republicans will not rest until we have an honest, up-or-down vote on the American Energy Act,” Boehner wrote. “To that end, we request that you contact the Whip’s Office and indicate any time you may have available to come to Capitol in the coming weeks. We specifically request that you indicate your availability for any days during the next two weeks, August 11th through 22nd, as soon as possible.”
Republicans began their protest on Friday, as the House went into its August recess. Through a handful of members, Republicans have been able to continue rounds of speeches on the House floor ever since.
The plan now seems to be to continue taking to the House floor every weekday until at least the start of the Democratic Convention, which kicks off on Aug. 25.
“The nationwide House GOP energy protest is making history, and we are writing to announce that the Call to Arms will continue,” Boehner continued. “And with your help, we will keep the pressure on the Speaker until she gives the American people the energy vote they want, need and deserve.”
The GOP effort has triggered strong reactions from Democrats this week. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the Democratic National Committee issued releases Wednesday that mocked the Republican energy plan.
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