 remember this the next time you re at the gas pump you can always count on liberals to vote against american prosperity  the senate on wednesday rejected republicanbacked legislation intended to speed up and expand offshore oil and gas drilling every senate democrat voted against the motion to proceed along with five republicans sens jim demint sc mike lee utah richard shelby ala olympia snowe maine and david vitter la i ll have to take the author s word that the five republicans are actually republicans olympia snowe is a confirmed rino i m not sure about the others apparently their loins weren t girded for battle maybe their spouses are environmentalists and they had no choices since it couldn t have been for rational reasons so we re still going to be pursuing the democrats energy policy cars run on rainbows and houses powered by unicorns we ll call it the jennifer granholm method of governance  