This is sick:
As the members of the House of Representatives fled Washington … leaving the federal budget process in disarray, lots of spinning was going on. The most remarkable story appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, where Representative Richard Pombo [R-CA] attributed the collapse of the Republican budget process to the fact that, after the House leadership removed Arctic and coastal oil drilling to obtain the votes of moderate Republicans, he and his fellow conservative members of the House Committee on Resources told House Whip Roy Blunt that he could not longer count on their votes for a bill that failed to contain “American energy production.”
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