Montana’s “senior” U.S. Senator, Max Baucus, sent his subscribers an e-mail from his U.S. Senate account on Friday he called, “Sizzling Summer Successes.” The e-mail dealt with four main topics: Quality, Affordable Health Care, Outdoor Heritage, Indian Health Service, and Secure Borders.

Lacking in the campaign-type e-mail was any idea on how to lower gas prices – not one word. This is the major issue facing America – dealing a huge blow to tourism, trade, and commerce. He does tell his readers, “As chairman of the Senate Finance Committee I’m working to secure a bright and prosperous future for Montana and America.” It would be nice if Senator Baucus would push his majority leader, Harry Reid, into allowing votes on drilling. We might actually believe he is working to secure Montanans a bright and prosperous future.

But Harry Reid is just one part of the problem. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi was in Montana for a wedding (details here) and it appears she did not care to discuss high gas prices during the press interviews.

There’s an elephant in the room and congressional democrats should be doing something about it. It looks like the House and Senate have about one week left before they leave on their August vacations, so time is wasting.

Americans can squarely place the blame on Pelosi and Reid for our energy woes, especially when it comes to more drilling off our coasts. Since President Bush lifted the executive ban on offshore oil drilling, oil prices have dropped a little. To get prices to drop even more, Reid and Pelosi must follow and lift the congressional ban. We must drill for more oil at home, period.

Like I wrote before, everything must be on the table. Everything. It’s a national security issue. It’s something that Max Baucus and Nancy Pelosi should be talking about.