Rep. Burgess just loooves Paris Hilton's energy plan

Rep. Michael Burgess, a leader in the GOP House revolt on energy, returned to Washington Thursday,  energized by, of all things, Paris HIlton. At a press conference in the Capitol with a half dozen lawmakers, Burgess stepped up to the microphone and complained that Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., doesn't have an energy plan and won't let members vote on a domestic drilling bill. "Even Paris Hilton has a plan," he said. "Let's bring up the Paris Hilton plan."

He's only half-kidding. Burgess said the first part of her video, aimed at John McCain, is clearly a spoof but then "she stops and gives a serious discussion of energy." "She discussed a hybrid plan" of drilling and conservation, said Burgess. "That's the Republican Conference plan."

As for his own conservation credentials, Burgess said, "I drive a Prius. Of course I believe in conservation."

-- Maria Recio

Comments

[Gary]

From 2001 through 2006, Republicans controlled the Presidency, the Senate, the House of Representatives and the Supreme Court. In the first year, Vice President Cheney conferred with industry leaders on energy policy; later Bush made urgent energy reform a hallmark of his State of the Nation speech. Even after the Democrats took control of the Senate and House, they made it clear they would co-operate with any Bush initiatives on alternative energy sources. Increased offshore and wilderness drilling is not a serious energy plan (though offered as an emergency stopgap in transition to serious alternative sources and conservation measures, it might be considered -- which of course is exactly what Paris said).

In fact there has been only one "solution" to energy instability offered by the Bushies: invade Iraq and control its vast reservoirs of oil -- this was not an invention of their opponents, but was articulate by government spokespersons. It failed. What is going on now is one more charade by a party that does not know how to govern.

[Daniel Boone]

For Eight years the "Do Nothing Republicans" did not get one Green Energy bill passed to eliminate control of the American people by "Oil and Gas Corporations.
Republicans are Partisan Control and nothing else. Mental Illness at its best.