Republicans bash unpopular 'Beijing Bush'

It's getting ugly up there.

House Republicans are on the floor for the fourth day in a row today, complaining that the Democratic speaker of the House, one Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco, is resisting their entreaties to call Congress back from its August recess. They want to debate President Bush's proposal to lift the ban on offshore oil drilling, and they want to debate it now.

But Pelosi is not the only one resisting. On the eve of the president's trip to Beijing, the White House said that Bush would not call Congress back into session. Why bother, if Pelosi will just gavel them back on vacation.

Now comes Thaddeus McCotter of Michigan, chairman of the Republican House Policy Committee, who is accusing Bush of deserting the cause. In a memo posted on the committee's website, the three-term congressman said:

The wildly unpopular President George W. Bush boarded Air Force One bound for the Beijing Olympics and a meeting with his chum Hu Jintao, the dapper rule of a nuclear-armed, communist dictatorship...

Perhaps our compassionate conservative-in-chief will bring our absent Democrat Congress some 'made in (Communist) China' souvenir T-shirts [that read]: 'Bush went to Beijing and all I got was this lousy five-week paid vacation.'

The revolt by Republicans is taking place in the dark because House sessions, broadcast by C-SPAN, are under the control of the speaker, and they were shut off when she gaveled the House out of session. That hasn't stopped plenty of angry C-SPAN viewers from calling the network, according to our sources there, demanding that C-SPAN turn the camera lights back on.

In any event, House Republicans have taken to putting their homemade videos on YouTube.

-- Johanna Neuman

Comments

[Marge]

Oil revolt congressional You Tube videos are getting more internet circulation than LA Times articles. It's a brave new world :-)

[Marge]

I wonder who it was thought that cranking up the price of gas DOUBLE in just ONE year, (you know, to get it done before the election,) thought it would somehow benefit the Democrats? Haven't they heard the story about the frog that was dumped in the hot soup? He jumped out, but the frog dumped in the cold soup and slowly brought to a boil died happy, (or blissfully unaware at least.) There are a whole lot of hopping out frogs who are not going to pay DOUBLE without a fight, a fight the Dems just may lose.

Bush wacked or shot in the back by the Republican anti Christian president. He is against the Chaplains using the name of Christ and is pro corruption of the US government. He gave tax brakes to business to move out of this country. Removed import duties and gave away all he could to protect big business and Wall Street along with oil companies for highest profits. He bailed out Pres Fox of Mexico with around 11 billion dollars for a bail out of Mexico going broke.