… let me provide you with the words from the late Senator from North Carolina, Jesse Helms.
“Compromise, hell!” Helms once wrote. “That’s what has happened to us all down the line — and that’s the very cause of our woes. If freedom is right and tyranny is wrong, why should those who believe in freedom treat it as if it were a roll of bologna to be bartered a slice at the time?”
It works with energy independence too. Why compromise when you are right? House Republicans are right. Millions of Americans are right. Drilling now, wherever available, for oil that provides more supply, lower prices, greater self-reliance and economic security is right.
Senator Chambliss was just on Rush Limbaugh’s radio show talking about this proposed bill and how its the best compromise they could get. Senator, if that is the best you can do, then you aren’t trying hard enough. Americans are fed up with high gas prices and Washington inaction. Why are we beholden to Russia and OPEC when we have billions of barrels of oil available at home?
Republicans in the house are leading on this issue. The majority of Americans now want us to drill at home, even in ANWR. Senator Graham, Senator Chambliss and others… if you aren’t going to lead, then get the hell out of the way. Greater energy independence is not a compromise, its a necessity.
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