Shays Joins GOP's Odd Protest On Dimly Lit House Floor

Wow, the RHINO steps to the plate. Think he is getting it? Maybe there is hope for the dems.

The Democrats have abandoned Americans. Let them eat cake when its time for re-election. I'm no longer a Democrat - I've had it!

Do-nothing Shays engages in silly theater but doesn't acknowledge that after 21 years in Congress, he's done nothing and has no real influence in his party. What did he accomplish to address energy in his years in the Republican majority? The Bush energy plan.

Jerk.

Sounds like good theater to me-emote on,all ye hypocrites! Who didn't do it when they were in power.

Good for Shays and those few Repubs willing to bring focus to the obvious. The Dems are more interested in defeating a Repub effort than dealing with the need to produce more oil for ourselves...no vision for 10 years down the road just means more money for our middle east enemies. This issue will cost the Dems this fall! As an independent,I don't care which party wins or loses, I just want someone in Congress to cut the crap and start addressing the issues that matter to every family in America.

Uh... can we please get back to things that are more pressing? Oh, I dunno... the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, crumbling dollar, impeachment proceedings, etc. Enough of the gestures and non-binding resolutions. These butt monkeys need to start taking their jobs seriously.

I love myself so much!!

Great embedded editorial comments by Jesse throughout the piece.

If this is the "new" Courant, what garbage.

The Dems are very happy with the high price of gasoline. They believe that $5 or higher gasoline is what we need in America to solve the problem of their sacred cow Global Warming (which is still not proven that we are responsible for or that it even exists). Alternative fuels are needed but more drilling for domestic oil is the best way to keep prices under cotrol in the interim. The rich don't mind the high prices of fuel, but the average to poor persons in this country can't continue to pay the current prices and eat too!!! The dems are liars when they say they support the poor and weak of this nation!!!!

Deeptoad wrote:

These butt monkeys need to start taking their jobs seriously.

Are you kidding me??? Seriously!!!

Most of these cowardly, lazy, uncaring jerykoffs have gone on vacation and are sitting on their butts somewhere—without a worry in the world, mind you.

Welcome to the United States of Chindia.

Bassmana wrote:

The Dems are very happy with the high price of gasoline. They believe that $5 or higher gasoline is what we need in America to solve the problem of their sacred cow Global Warming (which is still not proven that we are responsible for or that it even exists). Alternative fuels are needed but more drilling for domestic oil is the best way to keep prices under cotrol in the interim. The rich don't mind the high prices of fuel, but the average to poor persons in this country can't continue to pay the current prices and eat too!!! The dems are liars when they say they support the poor and weak of this nation!!!!

Dumb Republican talking points. Shays is a schmuck and will be voted out just like all treasonous Republicans who have destroyed the country economically as well as globally.

Off shore drilling is a joke and a red herring, maybe they will start calling out "infantacide".

I thought at first this was an editorial. Actually, it is... but the Courant wants to suggest it is objective reporting.

I'm not a Republican but I detest agenda driven reporting.

The new Courant seems as objective as Fox News or The New York Times.

Our subscription runs out soon - we'll be buying the Journal Inquirer from now on.

Global warming is happening, but the claim that it is caused by human activity is what's questionable. The claim global warming is a human caused phenomenon is nothing more than a hypothesis. There is not enough evidence or proof to substantiate the claim but everyone acts like it's a law already. Thus the propaganda is the democrat and environmental (includes some republicans too) quacks trying to make policy on an unproven idea trying to scare us into densely populated cities and not drive around use public transportation etc. There is another hypothesis which seems to make much more sense and has a mountain of data backing it that states the Sun, our planets heat source, is causing global warming.

Advancing our own energy production, drilling more oil domestically, building more refineries, nuclear plants, all of that just makes sense. produce more at home, buy less from over seas. Like having your own tomato plant, harvest your own tomatoes buy fewer from the store. releasing the strategic reserve is stupid, it's a "strategic" reserve for a reason, that's a complete bandaid temporary fix that will produce negligable impact.

Two years ago, Nancy Pelosi was complaining loudly about the terrible Republicans and how debate and voting was closed off to her party. Now she's doing the same. What else shoud anyone else expect from the lady from the People's Republic of San Francisco?

Great political charade. The Repubs know very well drilling might give us some relief in a few years, but they filibustered an attempt to rein in speculators, an action that most experts believe could bring quick relief. Of course neither party, which are devoted to corporate interests, want to talk about regulation. At least not until the damage has been done and we, the taxpayers, pick up the bill while the corporate execs, our new aristocrats, ride off in the sunset with bonuses in pocket and platinum parachutes at the ready in case they're forced to bail out.

Ways & Means: Fuel Folly-We're better off without cheap gas
http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/200603/ways_...
The above article by the Sierra Club, a major supporters of Obama, says it all. At a MoveOn.org demonstration against the Republican proceedings on the House floor, MoveOn advocated $10 per gallon gas. Check out the videos. http://maroonedinmarin.blogspot.com/2008/08/m...
The only answer the DEMS have is higher prices for the consumer. This winter with $4+ heating oil, citizens will choose between food, medicine and heat. Some will freeze but the Democratic attitude is that's ok as long as we have high prices to stop further drilling. Hopefully this November, Shays will have other Republicans to help represent NewEngland which uses 80% of the heating oil in the country.

Your characterization of the protest by House Republicans as "odd" "guerilla" shouts your bias toward liberal democrats. I'm old enough to remeber when they taught us in school that media was supposed to be neutral in "reporting" the news. Did you forget that? Or did you never learn that? Or did you just decide to disregard it?

Sandra Parrott wrote:

Your characterization of the protest by House Republicans as "odd" "guerilla" shouts your bias toward liberal democrats. I'm old enough to remeber when they taught us in school that media was supposed to be neutral in "reporting" the news. Did you forget that? Or did you never learn that? Or did you just decide to disregard it?

You don't understand,if not for Shays presence no one in CT would have any idea this (odd) protest is even going on.

FAV wrote:

Great political charade. The Repubs know very well drilling might give us some relief in a few years, but they filibustered an attempt to rein in speculators, an action that most experts believe could bring quick relief. Of course neither party, which are devoted to corporate interests, want to talk about regulation. At least not until the damage has been done and we, the taxpayers, pick up the bill while the corporate execs, our new aristocrats, ride off in the sunset with bonuses in pocket and platinum parachutes at the ready in case they're forced to bail out.

Venezuelan people are pursuing odd protest against Chavez's new socialist push. I though this might interest you.

I'd put more stock in a Republican "solution" if it contained real measures that would result in increased conservation. If we really don't want to give so much money to countries that hate us, we can use less energy and cut borrowing from our enemies. Oh, but that's not as easy as theater with the lights out.