Democrats Respond to “Another Stunning Spike in Oil Prices” by Slipping Sham Energy Measure into Stopgap Budget Bill
 
Last week, Democrats passed a no-energy bill so devoid of any new American energy that newspaper editorials around the country have called it an election year “ruse,” a “trick,” an “oily dodge,” and a “phony” “sham.” Democrat leaders ensured the bill kept most of America’s energy under permanent lock-and-key, and knowing it will never become law, it was intended to protect Democrats’ jobs, not the jobs of the American people.
 
Today, CNN reports “another stunning spike in oil prices” due to market turmoil, and the effects of Hurricane Ike have left “three southern cities dealing with pumps running dry and long lines at stations that have gas.” Watch the CNN clip below.

CNN’s Tony Harris: “Motorists running on empty. Stations running out. Three southern cities dealing with pumps running dry and long lines at stations that have gas. Atlanta, Nashville and Tallahassee, Florida, have been caught in a supply squeeze.”
 
Motorist: “Yesterday I had to have my truck towed home, and I'm looking for gas now to get to work.”
 
CNN’s Poppy Harlow: “We have never seen anything like it. At one point on Monday afternoon, crude prices jumped $25 a barrel. That is unprecedented … The past week, another stunning spike in oil prices. Oil jumping 33 percent in just four days.”

 
Will the Democrats – finally – allow an up-or-down vote on the American Energy Act, House Republicans’ truly comprehensive, “all-of-the-above” energy strategy? Hardly. Yesterday, we learned that House Democrats will once again seek pure political cover by inserting the same sham measure they passed last week into a stopgap budget measure – a must-pass bill made necessary because Democrats have failed to pass a single annual spending bill into law. 
 
One final thing: there are less than four days until the do-nothing Democratic Congress is set to adjourn for the next four months.
 

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