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Posted at 12:53pm on Jul. 9, 2008 Winning The Battle on Drilling

D Senators Can Read Polls Too

By Dan McLaughlin

Monday:

"There's clearly a dramatic shift across the ideological divide in America in favor of producing more energy here at home," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters.

"I can't imagine that the majority (Democrats in Congress) is going to ignore that indefinitely," McConnell added.

He cited a poll released on July 1 by the Pew Research Center that found that 45 percent of respondents who identify themselves as "liberals" said they favor expanded energy exploration, mining, drilling, building more power plants. In February, the figure was just 22 percent.

Tuesday:

A top U.S. Democratic senator said in a newspaper interview published Wednesday that he would consider supporting opening up new areas for offshore oil and gas drilling.

"I'm open to drilling and responsible production," Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin told The Wall Street Journal, adding that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid could also support the move.

Your move next, Senator Obama.

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Posted at 7:52pm on Mar. 7, 2007 Harry Reid Gets Mitchslapped

By Erick

Mitch McConnell has just dropped a bomb on Senator Reid.

Earlier today, Senator Reid refused to allow a vote on several Republican amendments to the 9/11 Commission bill that would have actually made us more secure as a nation. Senator McConnell's response was to introduce the world to the concept of Mitchslapping.

Senator McConnell just lumped all the separate amendments into one amendment and filed for cloture. So now all those Democrats who were complaining about the GOP continuing to debate the war in Iraq at the expense of the troops will have to defend continuing to debate the 9/11 Commission report at the expense of the safety of the American people.

The McConnell amendment will:

• Make it a crime to recruit people to commit a terrorist act.
• Authorize the immediate deportation of suspected terrorists whose visas are revoked on terrorism grounds.
• Prevent the release of dangerous illegal immigrants whose home countries delay their return to their home country.
• Make it a crime to encourage terrorism by rewarding the families of suicide bombers after the bombings take place. This is not a crime under current law.
• Increases penalties for those who call families of soldiers serving overseas and falsely claim that their family member has been killed.

Let's now watch to see if the Democrats are more interested in unionizing the TSA than actually protecting the American people.

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