ENERGY

In July, after Tim Holden voted with Nancy Pelosi to get out of Washington to avoid a vote on drilling for American-made oil, he got a dose of reality from district voters and changed his tune. Now Holden says he wants to drill “everywhere.”

Forget Tim Holden’s sudden “conversion” to drilling offshore and in ANWR. In the real world, voting for something means you support it, and voting against something means you oppose it. In nearly sixteen years in Congress, Holden has voted against drilling in ANWR every time a vote to permit it has come up and he voted to extend the moratorium on off shore drilling many times.

Tim Holden has voted dozens of time against domestic drilling.

Who really believes Holden’s sudden change of heart in the face of years of votes? Words are cheap. Votes count – over and over and over.

If drilling is the right thing to do now, it was the right thing fifteen years ago when Holden began voting against it.

Tim Holden’s support for drilling is a cynical attempt to save his job by pulling the wool over the eyes of district voters.

Here’s proof: In September Holden voted with his democratic leaders in the House to “increase’ domestic drilling but that would put 95% of the Pacific offshore reserves off limits forever.

Holden’s votes show his indifference to the security of America and to the needs of district residents suffering from the effects of high gasoline and heating oil.

Tim Holden and Democrats in Congress have made the United States the only country in the world to deliberately damage its own economy by refusing to develop its own domestic energy resources.