The American Express To Change

By Ebose Okoruwa
The Peanut Gallery
on Energy & Natural Resources:

Shouts of, "G.O.P." and ,"Take back the Whitehouse," filled the air at the Republican Party Caucus. With such rousing shows of patriotism, it does not take much for one to see the Republican party causing changes at Capitol Hill.
Even the reserved Senator Robert Burnett was fired up to take back control of government policy. The senator said this with a glint of fervor in his eyes, "It feels like we are in a hot tub time machine... and we are being transported to the Reagan years."

His statements were contrasted with Senator Mark Undall's words about the Democratic Caucus, which were, "The Caucus was good, very inspirational... we are going in the right direction." With such a reserved attitude in the Democratic Caucus, one can feel the momentum of the Democratic party faltering. These caucuses show that change might be on the horizon for hotly contested issues such as America's energy infrastructure.


In previous times in our nation's history, we have been in similar situations such as when the Democrats controlled the Whitehouse and senate in the time of President Clinton.

We have also seen the Democrats fail to push reforms through, such as President Clinton's health reform. However, despite these obstacles, the Republicans can start a real push for moving America's energy future into the hands of the private sector, whose capable hands can truly move our energy future in the right direction. With the moving of this crisis to the private sector there can be more people and ideas tossed around to help solve this problem.
This opposes what the Democrats want for our nation's future. They want the government to have more and more control on regulating America's energy production and distribution. More control of this problem in government hands will limit ideas and also undermine a core value of America; the value of Americans being able to solve their own problems with their own ingenuity.