The Party of the Working Guy

So democrats are the party of Joe Six Pack?

Then explain how it is that the democratic head honchos stripped John Dingell of his House chairmanship and gave it to Henry Waxman.

ABC News' Jonathan Karl Reports: ABC News has learned that House Democratic leaders have voted to strip Representative John Dingell of his chairmanship of the House Energy and Commerce committee, replacing him with Henry Waxman.

In a stinging rebuke, the House Steering committee voted 25-22 by secret ballot during a closed-door Democratic leadership meeting.

The move was a dramatic one for House Democrats -- considered a victory for House liberals and environmentalists, a big defeat for Michigan and the auto industry.

Say what you want about Dingell and his union protection racket, but it's clear that the big kitties of the democratic party would sell out Joe Six pack for pack of wolves in Yellowstone Park; and they did. As they always do.

If that sounds familiar, it's because you read it right on this blog in my "Hills They Die On" series.

The democratic party likes to say that it's out for the working guy. But ask yourself this question; if it came down to creating jobs for working stiffs and protecting a caribou in Alaska, who wins?

We have the capability to start domestic drilling here in the US. domestic drilling accomplishes a number of good things for this country. It lessons our dependence on resources from rogue nations, it strengthens our dollar, it lessons our trade imbalance, it increases US Treasury receipts, it creates good high paying, union jobs.

Yet with all these positive aspects of domestic drilling who do you think is primarily responsible for killing it? Hint, it's not republicans.

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