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6.8.07 @ 12:01AM

IMMIGRATION SURGE
Re: The Washington Prowler's News Flash! A New Number 2?:

Let me see if I have this right. The AP does a poll this week on Republican candidates for POTUS. Romney, who has been a very distant number three among declared candidates, has ascended to number two ahead of McCain. Have I got it so far? The AP declares that "some GOPers are in for a surprise."

Now has anything been going on in the past 7 to 10 days besides the Romney ad campaign? Why yes, I believe that a fight has broken out on the right over the Bush-Kennedy Amnesty Bill in the Senate. Mr. McCain was prominent in the group of bipartisan Senators negotiating the lipsticked pig behind closed doors. Mr. Bush has questioned whether his conservative base wants what is good for America. Senator Graham has risen to tell "the bigots to shut up." Senator McCain has gotten into an obscenity laced shouting match with another GOP Senator who does NOT support the bill. Senator McCain has been everywhere touting his support of the bill. BUT, Mr. Romney has found many places and formats to trumpet his disagreement and opposition to this bad bill.

Gee, I wonder if any of that illegal amnesty bill stuff could have had any affect on lifting Romney over McCain among GOP voters. Hmmmmmmn...
-- Ken Shreve
New Hampshire
P.S. Fred Thompson is also against the Bush-Kennedy bill.

ENERGETIC RESPONSES
Re: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.'s Oil Is Not Well:

As long as the politicians, oil companies, and environmentalists keep the U.S. hamstrung in the production of energy in this country, the American people will continue to pay through the nose.

France generates over 70 percent of its electricity through the use of nuclear power. We have the capacity, but not the will, to do the same.

We have enough coal in Wyoming to satisfy our power needs for hundreds of years, but not the will to use it. Instead, we ship it overseas. There are huge low-sulphur coal deposits locked up in the Escalante National Monument, placed off-limits to development by Bill Clinton, as a payoff to Indonesian contributors to his reelection campaign.

We can't drill for oil in ANWR, because of opposition by the wacko environmentalists. We won't know how much oil there is there until we drill.

We can't drill for oil in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, because Florida politicians balk, and then arrange payoffs from their friends for those willing to side with them.

There are an estimated four trillion barrels of oil locked up in shale in the U.S. Rocky Mountains. Shell Oil has developed a viable method of extracting in place. Of course, first they have to have the permission of the government to go ahead....

On an on, we flirt with alternate fuel sources, such as biodiesel, and ethanol (a net energy loser in production), while we pay ever higher prices at the pump.

We are all sheep, afraid to kick out our current totally corrupt government and start over.
-- R. Goodson
Vero Beach, Florida

It was inevitable that the biggest oil producers are unstable, underdeveloped countries. The United States developed the oil and auto industries. The black goop wasn't worth anything before that. That's why we consume more and started running out first. The poorly governed, backward countries that still have oil mostly didn't find it or develop it.
-- D.M. Duggan

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