My administration has repeatedly called on Congress to expand domestic oil production. Unfortunately, Democrats on Capitol Hill have rejected virtually every proposal - and now Americans are paying the price at the pump for this obstruction.

On June 17th, 2008 Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a senior advisor to McCain's campaign, acknowledged in a conference call to reporters that new offshore drilling would have no immediate effect on supplies or prices.

When are the oil companies going to start drilling in the 65,000,000 acres they already hold the leases to.

The Responsible Federal Oil and Gas Lease Act of 2008 (H.R. 6251) is a direct response to the facts outlined in the recent House Natural Resources Committee Majority Staff report, "The Truth About America's Energy: Big Oil Stockpiles Supplies and Pockets Profits", that illustrate how energy companies are not using the federal lands and waters that are already open to drilling. The legislation is co-sponsored by Reps. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL), Maurice Hinchey (D-NY), Ed Markey (D-MA), and John Yarmuth (D-KY).

The 68 million acres of leased but inactive federal land have the potential to produce an additional 4.8 million barrels of oil and 44.7 billion cubic feet of natural gas each day. This would nearly double total U.S. oil production, and increase natural gas production by 75 percent. It would also cut U.S. oil imports by more than one-third, reducing America's dependency on foreign oil.

McCain heckled for accepting most money from Big Oil

Last night during a townhall event in Missouri, John McCain was confronted by a protester who yelled out that he had accepted a half million dollars this year from "big oil."

"That's more than any other senator!" the protester said. "How can you be trusted?" Later, McCain was asked about this in a news conference. "I don't know what he's talking about. So I can't respond," McCain said.

The Wall Street Journal wrote:

McCain does lead all other senators, and all others who ran for president, in contributions from the oil and gas industry, according to the Center for Responsive Politics' analysis of federal data in the 2007-08 election cycle. McCain collected $724,000 through May.

An Apology

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We will not be proceeding with the manufacturing of this toy.

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During the June 6 edition of Fox News America's Pulse, host E.D. Hill teased an upcoming discussion by saying, "A fist bump? A pound? A terrorist fist jab? The gesture everyone seems to interpret differently." In the ensuing discussion with Janine Driver -- Hill referred to the "Michelle and Barack Obama fist bump or fist pound," adding that "people call it all sorts of things."

HILL: A fist bump? A pound? A terrorist fist jab? The gesture everyone seems to interpret differently. We'll show you some interesting body communication and find out what it really says.

"Be that as it may, the really interesting part of this story is the vast left-wing conspiracy in the media. But -- and this is important -- there's no media counter for NBC News, Newsweek, The New York Times and dozens of other committed-left media. There's no right-wing media conspiracy."

PERINO: That dissent amongst experts within the intelligence community at some level did not reach the president.

The Estimate itself expressed the majority view that the program was being reconstituted, but included clear dissenting views from the State Department's Buerau of Intelligence and Research, which argued that reconstitution was not underway, and the Department of Energy, which argued that aluminum tubes sought by Iraq were probably not intended for a nuclear weapon.

Q: Can you explain why you believe you're still a credible messenger on the war?

BUSH: I'm credible because I read the intelligence, David.

"We are certainly not on cruise control, We spend a lot of time thinking about what we want to put in our 22 minutes, so in that regard I think competition is good. I want to win."

"I don't dispute its a close race, but we are proud of what we do every night. I feel like the tide has turned in our direction, and we certainly are winning most weeks," says Wallace.

1) When asked by Keith Olbermann if he ever lied as White House press secretary, he said yes. He admits to lying to the American people about Karl Rove and Scooter Libby being involved in the Valerie Plame leak scandal. Karl and Scooter both lied to him, and he passed that info on to the American people. The news here is that Rove and Scooter lied about leaking a CIA agents name, then allowed McClellan to lie to the American people about it. At the time O'Reilly reported that Rove and Libby were not involved, and used the McClellan statement as proof. When we now know they were involved, and McClellan was lying. Yet O'Reilly claims there is nothing in the book.

2) After the 9/11 terrorist attacks Bush and his administration started their war on terror. They tried to link the 9/11 attacks to Saddam to drum up support for an invasion of Iraq. This started on 9/12, which is what liberals have been saying for years, and O'Reilly has been saying it's all a lie to hurt Bush. But McClellan confirms that the liberals were right, that on 9/12 Bush and his administration wanted to use the 9/11 attacks as an excuse to invade Iraq, which is exactly what they did. McClellan admits the Bush administration used the 9/11 attack to advance their Iraq invasion policy, even though we now know Iraq had nothing to do with the 9/11 terrosist attack. Yet O'Reilly claims there is nothing in the book.

3) McClellan admits that President Bush told him he authorized the secret leaking of the classified National Intelligence Estimate. Even after Bush had spoke out about leaks of secret information, and said that anyone who leaked anything will be fired. The President told the American people that he is 100% against any leaks, and that anyone who is caught leaking information to the press will be fired. Then he authorized the leak of the secret NIE report, so that information could be used to out a CIA agent, and to smear Joe Wilson as revenge for telling the truth about their yellowcake in Niger lies, the lies they later admitted were not true. McClellan said that after Bush told him he authorized the leak of the secret and classified NIE report, is when he decided he would resign. Yet O'Reilly claims there is nothing in the book. I would say that when a President of the United States authorizes a leak of a secret and classified NIE report to get political revenge by outing the guys CIA agent wife, that's something, if not treason.

4) McClellan said he took the press secretary job very much believing that the president was somewhat committed to being a bipartisan leader and that he was going to reach across the aisle and that he was going to change the way things worked in Washington, and that he had hopes Bush would be able to do that. He said this:

"I was deputy press secretary during the buildup to the war. Like a lot of Americans, I wasn't certain about the rush to war, that it was the right thing to do. From a moral standpoint, I believe we should not be going to war unless it is absolutely necessary. And we now know that it was not absolutely necessary with regards to Iraq. It was not the grave and gathering danger that we portrayed it as." Yet O'Reilly claims there is nothing in the book.

5) O'Reilly and his Republican friends quote what the White House is saying about the book, and all the stooges they sent out to spin what's in the book, but they never quote what Mike Turk says about the book and the reaction to it. He said this:

The former e-campaign director for President Bush's 2004 reelection campaign, Mike Turk, e-mailed TheHuffingtonPost.com to say Scott McClellan is, quote, "getting savaged for saying what everyone knows to be true."

Adding, "People had high hopes for President Bush to bring America together after his election and after the attacks on 9/11. They felt disillusioned by the administration's adoption of the 'win at all costs' partisan mentality in this town. I think the bigger point of Scott's book comes from the lessons he learned while playing a part in the permanent campaign. It's an exploration of how that mind-set can lead to some really bad choices."

It's funny how O'Reilly never reported what Mike Turk said, and how he only reports what the Bush spin doctors are saying. Then claims there is nothing in the book.