Vote "no" to Lieberman-Warner

The Heritage Foundation has just produced a report on the impact of the Lieberman-Warner bill which will is scheduled for a Senate floor vote this week. This bill is being advertised as a tool to help prevent global warning. However, such a bill will only cost consumers more money at the pump while having little effect on containing the effects of global warming. Click on the link below to find out how much it will cost Georgians if it becomes law at
http://www.heritage.org/Research/EnergyandEnvironment/wm1930-Georgia.cfm

Obama's the nominee?

At the end of the South Dakota primary on Tuesday, Barack Obama will be the Democrat nominee for President of the United States. As expected, the Democrat Rules Committee agreed to seat both the Florida and Michigan delegations at their convention in August but only half of each state's delegates will count. The net result overall: Hillary Clinton picks up only 24 delegates which all but gives Obama the nomination. In a gesture of party unity, once Obama reaches the necessary number of delegates to nominate, 2,118, Mrs. Clinton should concede the nomination and step aside gracefully. She has bright future in the Demcrat Party as Governor of New York or future Senate Majority leader and could run again for the presidency in 2012 if Obama loses in November. However, Mrs. Clinton's may take the nomination fight all the way to the convention if she ends up with more of the popular vote than Obama. Such a selfish act will only benefit one candidate, John McCain.

Politicians out of touch

The price for a barrel of oil is at an all time. People are paying record prices at the pump. The US is becoming more dependent on foreign oil every day. So, what is Congress' response? Nothing. Our politicians are held hostage by a small, but vocal minority who will not allow companies to build new nuclear power plants, oil refineries, or to drill for oil any where in the continental United States or off our shores. What is truly maddening is countries like China are drilling for oil closer to our shores than we can! Meanwhile, we remain dependent on oil from unreliable sources like OPEC, which includes Saudi Arabia, Russia, and Venezuela, countries that can bring the United States to its knees if any one of them cuts its supply. Our leaders need to find the courage to abandon the failed policies that have been in place for the past 30 years to allow energy companies to drill for oil here in the United States.