South Florida Democrat Joe Garcia has claimed he supports the Colombia Free Trade Agreement, but his FEC reports tell a very different story. The truth is Garcia's campaign has been bankrolled by Congressional Democrats who also voted to kill the pact. Check out the numbers:

"Garcia's willingness to campaign with Nancy Pelosi, who stood in the way of the Colombia Free Trade Agreement, exposes his hypocrisy and shows the voters in Florida that he is willing to put partisan politics over the best interests of his constituents and our economy," NRCC spokesman Ken Spain said in a statement. (Miami Herald, 10/25/08)

The Pensacola News Journal, 9/22/08:

David Reinhard, The Oregonian, 9/17/08: "Nancy Pelosi's 'Drilling' Charade. ... Pelosi's alternative-energy choice? Snake oil. ... How lame is the energy bill that Speaker Nancy Pelosi had her House Democrats pass through the House on Tuesday? Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu said before the vote that Pelosi's handiwork would be "dead on arrival" in the Senate. ... The Pelosi bill does not constitute an energy strategy to bring down prices over the long term. It's a political strategy to give the illusion of action. ... The bill's sham drilling provisions are clear when set against the House Republicans' drilling provisions ... The Pelosi bill keeps 88 percent of this resource-rich area (the 85 percent of the outer-continental now under lock and key) off-limits for good. This is an energy policy? ... Pelosi's bill is an obvious charade."

Kerrville (TX) Daily Times, 9/18/08: "Energy bill attempts to trick Americans. ...The [Democrats' energy] bill was nothing more than a pathetic attempt to pull the wool over Americans' eyes. The House bill barely is a baby step in a path toward the mythical land of energy independence and is predicted to go nowhere in the Senate. While supposedly voting to open the nation's coastlines for exploration and production, the bill does little other than to provide talking points in the upcoming election."

Philadelphia Inquirer, 9/19/08 "The [GOP] campaign succeeded in pressuring House Speaker Nancy E. Pelosi (D., Calif.) to hold a vote last week to allow offshore oil drilling. ... The legislation approved by the House would allow drilling, but prohibits exploration within 50 miles of shore - where much of the oil and natural gas deposits are located. And it prevented states from sharing in oil royalties, thereby eliminating the main financial incentive for states to take the environmental risk of permitting exploration. ... America does need to reduce its dependence on foreign oil, and more drilling, along with renewable and clean energy, should be part of the solution."

Buffalo News, 9/22/08: "Drilling bill lacks substance. ... The bill also would give each coastal state a veto over drilling off its shores, but would not offer those states any share in the revenue created, further decreasing the chances that the drilling Democrats may claim to be allowing by this vote will ever really happen. ... But for any bill to have a hope of, or a reason for, becoming law, it should offer some real hope of new offshore drilling, with firm expectations that claims of new, environmentally safe methods be put in place. ..."

Wall Street Journal, 9/19/08: "Pelosi's Drilling Ruse. ... The sudden pro-drilling makeover of the Pelosi Democrats has always had an air ﾖ a gale, really ﾖ of election-year convenience, and the House proved it Tuesday by passing an energy bill that would put any bunko man to shame. This confidence trick won't expand domestic oil-and-gas supplies even a bit. ... The real game was to give vulnerable Democrats political cover by letting them vote for more offshore drilling ﾖ while also making more drilling all but impossible, thus appeasing the party's green wing. ... The House bill shows that the Pelosi Democrats simply aren't serious about expanding domestic energy supplies."

Fort-Worth Star-Telegram, 9/19/08: "A Democratic-backed House bill doesn't allow for a sufficient expansion of offshore drilling. ...Oh, come on ﾗ you can do better than that. That's our reaction to an energy bill passed by Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives. It would very moderately expand offshore drilling, but not to a sufficient degree. ... Many Republicans denounced the House bill as a sham that would do little to encourage offshore drilling. ... What's needed is a bill that allows a substantial expansion of offshore drilling and provides incentives to states for allowing it."