Mountain Sage

By H. JOSEF HEBERT, Associated Press Writer Mon Sep 8, 7:35 PM ET
WASHINGTON – Senate Democrats promised a series of votes next week on offshore oil drilling as Republicans agreed Monday to let the Senate proceed on a defense bill that had been bottled up because of partisan disputes over the country’s energy priorities.
Majority Leader [...]

On Thursday, July 31st, Barack Obama collected more than $1.5 million in campaign funding.
Houston backers shell out for Obama
By ALAN BERNSTEIN Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle
Aug. 1, 2008, 12:43AM
Barack Obama collected more than $1.5 million in campaign funding Thursday night in two Houston neighborhoods built by oil and natural gas profits while telling his audiences that [...]

President Bush is trying to lead us to believe that the way to get the price of oil and thus gasoline down is for the U.S. to lift the off-shore ban on drilling.
In a Rose Garden appearance, the president challenged Democrats to drop their “obstruction” of proposals to expand domestic energy production. “Americans will [...]