The Congress Is Being Run By Crazies, I Mean, Democrats! UPDATE: No Oil for Blood

Here is Senate Majority saying "No one knows what to do" when talking about the economy.
"So we'll do this" is essentially what he said next by proposing

"In the short run, Democrats are trying to push through a second stimulus package with funding for infrastructure improvements, renewable energy tax credits and other things...
(and other things? What is this, a Spongebob cartoon?
"I've learned that no ammount of mermaid magic, or managerial promotion, or some other third thing... " - spongebob - look to video below for relevance).
...But all agree it will be up to the next President and Congress to do any re-regulation."

Bravo! another stimulus package? Now I can by Rock Band II.

As for a new energy bill, well read what is in the works.
the bill would "stifle development" of offshore energy resources by essentially making permanent drilling bans within the 50-mile coastal buffer, while imposing new taxes on the largest oil companies.

Looks like we wont be getting a new energy bill until after the election either.


UPDATE: No Oil For Blood
Senators Chuck Schumer, John Kerry, and Claire McCaskill wrote a letter to Secretary of State Rice asking her "to persuade the GOI [Government of Iraq] to refrain from signing contracts with multinational oil companies until a hydrocarbon law is in effect in Iraq." The Bush administration wisely refused to do so, but the resulting media hooraw in Iraq led to the cancellation of the contracts, and helps to explain why Iraq is doing oil deals instead with China.