So how’s the five-week vacation going, Congressman Capuano? You can’t drive all that far with gas hovering around $3.90 per gallon now during the summer and will most likely be $4.25 or higher by the time winter gets here. By that time, home heating oil is expected to be anywhere from $4.90 to well over $5.00 per gallon -that hurts people from all types of economic backgrounds‚Ķfrom money makers to fixed income seniors.

Maybe your whacko-liberal friend, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, doesn’t care about her constituents and the coming winter months – but you should care. It’s ALL about partisan politics in Washington, D.C. these days‚Ķthe bitterness and hatred between the two parties is shameful and we, the people, are the ones who will suffer in the end.

Sure, a break from the typical ‚Äúblame game‚Äù is nice – but not when there are issues vital to our nation’s survival economically and environmentally.

The ‚Äúparty of the people‚Äù has more whacked-out liberals in it (in power) than is healthy for us as a nation right now. Do we like what Bush has done as President? No, not really – but that doesn’t mean there needs to be a mass exodus from the middle to the far left.

We feel for the people of Darfur, but what the Hell does that have to do with the price of gas or oil right now? What the Hell does that have anything to do with global warming and reducing our own personal carbon footprints? Nothing.

We have seen on numerous news channels that Americans overwhelmingly want to decrease our nation’s dependence on foreign countries for vital resources – especially oil – up to 75 percent of them want to consider increasing drilling off shore and in other rural areas of the country. Even the Democratic candidate for president has indicated he would be open to such measures – but not Nancy Pelosi – who realizes that the only troops she can send home are her minions in Congress. How nice for her. How nice for them.

Partisan politics shouldn’t be getting in the way of doing what is right. What happened to being an independent voice? What happened to not being the standard bearer for anyone other than the people you were elected to represent?

The entire Congress, not just the Massachusetts delegation, should be ashamed of themselves. Imagine that – a five-week vacation – and winter will be here in no time. Do the math for a minute – if heating oil gets to $5.00 per gallon and your tank is 250 gallons, that’s $1,250 every time you fill the tank – and let’s say that you fill the tank 6 times in a season – that’s $7,500 for heat for one season. Is that kind of increase included in social security payments to our seniors?

This is the kind of disconnect that should be unacceptable to the average person on the street – the perfect reason why we shouldn’t have low voter turnouts. JFK and Tip O’Neil are probably rolling over in their graves with this party line silliness. The Congress should have said ‚Äúno‚Äù to Speaker Pelosi’s idea of taking a vacation when we need to deal with paramount issues like creating a comprehensive energy package that focuses on alternative energy sources – including large-scale wind farms, expansion of domestic oil production, re-evaluation of nuclear, hydrogen and fossil-based fuel sources and reducing the average carbon footprint of the masses.

Instead, they’re so worried about getting their candidate elected to the White House that things will most likely get a lot worse before they get better – the problem is – when will it start to get better? Remember, you don’t have to have a D or an R anywhere near your name to do the right thing.