When U.S. Rep. Nick Rahall, D-3rd, traveled with President Bush to West Virginia last week, he was carrying out the House Democrats' strategy in the ongoing energy debate, Politico reports.
Their goal is to hold off on a comprehensive energy bill until 2009, under a new president and possibly with an increased majority in both chambers of Congress, the article said.
As for Rahall's role:
Rahall spent more than an hour last week talking to the president about energy. Bush spent the entire flight aboard Air Force One, and much of a subsequent limousine ride, grilling the West Virginia Democrat about legislative solutions to the high price of gasoline, Rahall said last week.Rahall told Politico that the president does not expect Congress to act on the issue this year. “He’s realistic about it,” Rahall is quoted as saying.
As part of this game plan, Politico reports, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., "always intended to take heat on gas prices while tacitly encouraging more vulnerable Democrats to publicly disagree with her and show their independence."
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Hopefully the tactic of delaying action on our countries energy needs for political purposes will backfire on the Dems.
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