Democrap Publicity Politics

I can count on one hand the number of times I've watched C-SPAN, but last night, I was glad TiVO was recording my "must-watch" programs as I became engrossed in a Republican mini-filibuster taking place in the House.

According to the over-whelming evidence presented by the steady stream of mostly Republican presentors, rather than pass the highly-touted bi-partisan energy bill brought to the House, including by the almost 3 dozen Democraps who co-authored the bill, the Speaker of the House, a Democrap, flouted the process for introducing a bill to the House and rubber-stamped a hastily-authored Democrap substitute bill that is so patently flawed that the Senate has already said it's dead on arrival at their front door.

Several hours were spent on the presentation, much of which not just detailed the deceit, but also used the Democraps' words touting the original bi-partisan bill in the media and letters to party members to describe the extent of the betrayal of both the House membership and the established process. It appears that the Democrap's substitute bill's only purpose is to forestall the bi-partisan energy bill from being passed by the House because it would support media coverage for Republican candidates running on an energy platform, and possibly affect the outcome of the Presidential election.

The way this played out, the Democrap Speaker called for a vote on the bi-partisan bill, and, to a representative, the Democraps who helped author it and publicly supported it voted "nay." Once that was done, the Democrap Speaker pushed the alternate Democrap bill from her chair, refused to allow either discussion or debate, called for the vote, and then rushed it out the door on its way to the Senate.

Of course, the Democrap party faithful fell into line and voted for the substitute bill in a carefully engineered publicity stunt to show unity behind the Democrap candidates -- and to thwart any attempt by a Republican to use passage of an energy bill to support a Republican candidate in a political campaign. Of course, the Democraps can now brag about passing "their" legislation, while painting the Republican party as failing to support it and unable to pass their own "flawed" bill through the House.

It will not be mentioned that the original bill, which had taken months to draft, was a bi-partisan bill enthusiastically supported by the Democraps during the process. It will not be mentioned that the only reason the bi-partisan bill was kicked to the curb is political, and when a Republican politician tells the truth, the Democraps will trumpet that party's success in passing a Democrap energy bill, minus the details of the dirty politics involved.

The fall-out will be caught by whomever is elected in November, engineered by the Democraps in the House to be largely Democraps as they have cleverly manipulated the public into believing that it is only through heroic efforts by that party that an energy bill was signed and sent to the Senate. A House of cards takes but one breath of wind to topple and I feel a hurricane on the horizon.

I wonder what happens to the real bi-partisan bill? Will the Democraps reintroduce it after the November election as "their" bill and pass it, again generating countless hours of media coverage for a job well-done? We're back to my least favorite truism: my perception is my reality -- and I'll make it yours, too!

Gov. Sarah Palin's selection as Republican running mate and her Party's vow to open up this country to development of its own natural resources to distance the US from heavy reliance on foreign oil (that costs about $10 billion a month in US financial resources to purchase) must be more of a threat to Democrap candidates than anyone is letting on. Unfortunately, this transparent effort to balance the publicity generated by the Republican candidates with the unethical actions of the House Democraps will be buried far, far away from the publicity generated by the Democrap Speaker of the House touting the success of the Democraps' "real" energy legislation, while the Republicans "refused" to support an energy bill.

Perception, publicity, politics. Demo-crap.