Congress could get very interesting if Ventura runs in Minnesota. He is at 24 % in many polls and not yet in race. Given the approval rating of Dems and Reps in the Senate he could win again.  It could be fun to see what Ventura would do in the Senate...

The percentage of voters who give Congress good or excellent ratings has fallen to single digits for the first time in Rasmussen Reports tracking history. This month, just 9% say Congress is doing a good or excellent job. Most voters (52%) say Congress is doing a poor job, which ties the record high in that dubious category.

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I don’t know how low the Congress rating is, but I do know that it’s at an all time low.   I also know that we have no one to blame but ourselves.  For many years we’ve elected politicians that supported a strange belief that the world is warming and that humanity is causing it. We humans have always been too trusting and that has made us very gullible.

What amazes me is that anyone can be gullible enough to believe that fuels made with oil bought from other countries will slow the warming more than fuels made from our own oil.  We’re still using the same amount of fossil fuels and still putting the same amount of pollutants into the earth’s atmosphere.  The pollutants are just coming from a different source, foreign oil rather than our own!  Even if we are responsible for global warming, how is what we’re doing reducing emissions? 

And another thing.  We have the technology to drill for oil without contaminating the soil around the drilling rigs or the ocean water around the off-shore platforms.  Why are we trusting other countries, many that couldn’t care less about the environment, to do the drilling and production of oil for us.  If we were really concerned about the global environment we certainly wouldn’t want that situation to continue even one day longer!         

In the last 10 years there have been plenty of warnings that developing nations like China would need more oil and that it would create an energy shortage.  Several attempts have been made to get Congress to lift the Congressional ban on drilling for oil off-shore and in the ANWR as a means of avoiding the energy crisis. 

These attempts always failed.  I guess because of that silly belief that fuels made from oil from other countries don’t pollute the earth’s atmosphere like the use of our own!  If  members of Congress don’t think this way, then why haven’t they made any efforts during the 27 years of the domestic drilling ban to develop an alternative source of energy?   Hello!  This country runs on oil.  It will take 25 year to wean us from fossil fuels!

Sooner or later (hopefully sooner) we are going to wake up to the fact that we’re being lead down the path of self destruction as a free nation.  I think every seat in the House is up for grabs in November.  We would be wise to make sure that only the non-gullible members are re-elected.  We need leaders, not followers.              

The Bush administration and the war in Iraq is almost history!  Now, I ask you to join with me in November by voting for candidates who will vote to; 1) keep taxes low and; 2) develop domestic energy resources quickly so that the 700 Billion dollars we spend annually on foreign oil, can be spent here instead! 

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People who have abortions and and people who are gay have been victimized by needless high oil prices just like everyone else.