Pelosi Needs The Boot

A classic story of self-serving politics:

Upon entering Congress in 1987, Representative Nancy Pelosi quickly became part of the solid California front against oil drilling along much of the nation's coast.

She repeatedly resisted oil drilling in marine sanctuaries off the state's coast near her San Francisco district and, after joining the Appropriations Committee, was an advocate of reinstating the coastal drilling ban through spending restrictions each year.

Now, with gas prices soaring, those drilling restrictions are facing their most severe test in years as calls intensify to more aggressively pursue domestic oil, but Pelosi - whose political fortunes are anchored in her anti-drilling stance -is not budging. Said Pelosi recently:

The president of the United States, with gas at $4 a gallon because of his failed energy policies, is now trying to say that it is because he couldn't drill offshore. That is not the cause, and I am not going to let him get away with it.

Her voice carries considerable weight since, as speaker, Pelosi is in a position to prevent a vote on expanded drilling from reaching the floor.

She blames the president and his "failed" energy policies. What she didn't mention is that she has been a major factor in preventing any of those policies from becoming law. In other words, she's blaming the president for all those potholes in the road, the very potholes she's been digging for years and years.

So. The cats out of the bag. Nancy Pelosi is - and has been for years - a huge part of our oil supply problem. Doesn't matter who owns the oil leases, if they are prevented from drilling, we end up exactly where we are today.

Simple to understand...An oil spill off the coast of California in 1969 plus Nancy Pelosi's lust for political power has put us where we are.

Simple question: What's more important... Nancy Pelosi's political career... or our oil supplies?

Get rid of Pelosi... she is a HUGE roadblock to our ability to access our own oil, and apparently - according to her own words - the biggest roadblock.

No doubt that this woman will happily accept $20/gallon+ gasoline rather than giving up her power. And the grief that it will cause you? She could care less.