That makes a whole lot of sense....NOT. It's the responsibility of Democrats, "collectively", to ensure that their leadership is on top of their game, and not beholding to special interests, their own, or defer to the Republicans....I can only worry about my little neck of the woods, Texas.

I worry about your little neck of the woods too.

Only Harry Reid would say something so out of this world ignorant:

“The one thing we fail to talk about is those costs that you don’t see on the bottom line. That is coal makes us sick, oil makes us sick; it’s global warming. It’s ruining our country, it’s ruining our world. We’ve got to stop using fossil fuel.”

The guy is a walking billboard of hyperbole.

“The war is lost“

“This flu is going to strike us all, me, my children, my grandchildren; and if they get it, half of them are going to die unless we do something to stop it“

“I’m sure his dad gave him a pat on the back, but it’s a back pat he’s going to regret.” (On Bush selecting Cheney as his VP in 2000)

“The Iraqi war is hopeless and the situation in Iraq is same as it was in Vietnam.”

And so on….the man is an embarrassment to the Senate and the Democrat party. When we have an alternative to fossil fuels that is cost effective and won’t destroy our economy then I’m sure we all would be happy to switch over. But until then just friggin drill.

Members of Congress have been questioning witnesses and pounding podiums for the news cameras, but they have done nothing to increase American oil production by even one single barrel. Families are paying the price of Washington’s willful refusal to do what we all know must be done. American taxpayers own the federal lands, and they own the vast energy resources that lie beneath them too. If the federal government continues to withhold these supplies, how is it any different from OPEC?

The only thing the Democrats have done over the last 30 years of denying our country to ability to drill is made us dependent on other countries for our survival. Its ludicrous to think we have all this oil under our own feet but can’t get it our because of some spotted frog or other such nonsense.

And instead of talking about that Harry Reid embarrasses himself with “the world is lost” kind of crapola.

Get a grip Senator.