Barbara Boxer blasts Bush, Republicans on Energy Bill

Barbara Boxer: On Gas Prices, Whose Side Are Republicans On? Today, at gas stations across the nation, the American people are paying the price for a failed energy policy. But faced this week with the opportunity to actually do something to address high gas prices, invest in alternatives and move toward energy independence, Republicans in the Senate once again chose the path of obstruction, just as they did with historic global warming legislation last week.

Over the last eight years, President Bush, Vice President Cheney and their Republican allies in Congress have fallen over themselves to give oil companies huge tax breaks. They have repeatedly blocked meaningful progress toward energy independence and they have shown no interest in taking on the unchecked speculation that has created extreme volatility in energy markets and pushed oil and gas prices upward.

Yesterday, addressing the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Vice President Cheney said, "We have to recognize that there isn't anything out there that is going to get us away from a hydrocarbon economy anytime in the near future. There really isn't anything on the horizon that today is economic, relative, for example, to basic, good old oil and gas."

Not surprising coming from an oil man, and the man who sat down with oil company lobbyists behind closed doors to write the current failed policy. But those remarks show the bankruptcy of the Republican vision on energy. It's a vision of the status quo, invested in the problem, not in finding a solution. And it just doesn't cut it.

We need a new long-term strategy, one that fights global warming, one that ends this dependence on foreign oil. It's a strategy that will make us a leader in the world, that will create green jobs and technologies we can export, and will spur an economic renaissance in the nation.

I believe that that it's time for lawmakers to decide whose side they are on. Are they on the side of big special interests, or do they stand with the American people and an energy policy that we -- and the world -- can live with?

Tuesday I spoke about these issues on the Senate floor, and I wanted to take the opportunity to share the video with you. You can view the remarks here, and I would love to hear your feedback.
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[Prozackityzac]

I'd bone her

[phillipmarch22]

Not one Republican showed up for the energy subcommittee hearing yesterday. Now this bill is going directly to the floor. Those stupid GOP idiots are so hell bent on winning back seats that they are just the party of no. Research global warming! We are not the only country that is concerned about this. The Republicans just want to thrash this earth and don't give a fuck about their children or grandchildren. And they wonder why they are in the wilderness! Fuck um!

[bittergunowner12]

Ah yes, this bitch doesn't support offshore drilling and believes global warming will kill us all. I hope shes the first one to get killed from it.

[philblunt420]

Barbara "Botox" Boxer is up to her old tricks

[andyplace]

Another interesting bit, the government makes more in fuel taxes than all the oil company profits combined. I do understand that these fuel taxes are there to maintain our roads, but I just wanted to put it in perspective.

[999beme]

Is it just me or is Barbara Boxer looking better with age? She used to seem kind of homely, but she is kind of hot now. Kind of strange, really.

[ojkilledthemfolk]

Boxer is a fucking windbag whore. The whole state of california is fucked as they are stupid enough to keep voting in shittards like her.

[bluemangos]

the fact that only 8 republicans voted for the bill shows that the republicans dont give a shit about our environment or alternatives. All they want is oil and personal benefits and this proves it. Ever since george bush took office the direction of the GOP has changed drastically. Ron Paul is probably the only true republican left.

[UGOTDAJACK]

what did people think was gonna happen when they voted two oilman in the white house?

[retire2mtn]

these windbags are the reason why we are in the state we are in. Boxer and her kind are why we have not built a new refinery,nuclear power plant or drillnew wells offshore for over 30 years.Enviromentalists control the Democrats and they with the Help of Democrats have us in the state we are in. We are doing this to ourselves.