Day 4: Inflate Your Tires or Bust

House Republicans are at it again and they are not relenting. Perhaps we should consider this daily "rebellion" for a TV show since it looks like it will go until Congress comes back in session in September. Today on the "Shadow Session," the special guest was former Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R-GA). Gingrich's words were that our level of reliance on foreign oil imports is "bad national security policy, it's a bad economic policy and in the long run it's a bad environmental policy." Today, 18 Republicans showed up for work and again 0 Democrats appeared. Some new faces to the "rebellion" were Reps. Robert Aderholt (R-AL), Judy Biggert (R-IL), David Davis (R-TN), John Doolittle (R-CA), Ralph Hall (R-TX), Patrick McHenry (R-NC), Denny Rehberg (R-MT) and Christopher Shays (Republican from my home state of Connecticut). For the most part, the message remained the same: less reliance on foreign oil, let us use our own oil resources off our shores and on our mainland. The GOP continues to hammer the issue on Speaker Nancy Pelosi who apparently has time on her vacation to improve her fame on talk shows but cannot seem to find time to bring up a vote on energy. Republicans on the hill also commented on how Pelosi is also busy trying to drum up readers for her new book, "Know Your Power" which today is ranked #1655 on the best seller list. Obviously, her failures as leader of the Democrat controlled Congress can be seen in her ability to sell her own book. Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) compared Pelosi to Marie Antoinette, a betrayer of the people. Today's prop was the tire pressure gauge used to mock Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) who seems to think we can keep proper tire pressure and magically see gas prices fall. Wow! Who feeds Obama this information, 2nd graders? Foxx also told the media about "separating the sheep from the goats," a reference to Matthew 25:31-33: "When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his throne in heavenly glory. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left." What an interesting use of "left" and "right" here. Looks like someone's in trouble. Now that Foxx has shown us that Jesus is on the side of the GOP, the Democrats don't seem to be able to win on this issue.

In other news, Paris Hilton has fired back against the McCain campaign with her own new TV ad. Apparently, Hilton doesn't like the free publicity McCain gave her. Although the first part of her ad is a straight out attack on McCain's age, she actually poses one of the best compromises between the Democrat and Republican ideas that have held the issue of oil prices in a deadlock on Capitol Hill. Here's her ad: