Hate to defend her but it was a regularly schedualed "break",nothing new. On the offshore drilling, as long as the Dems control congress, you aint going to see a vote on offshore drilling. I've spent my whole life as a registered Democrat, now I'm not one. The last good Democrat was Adelia Stevenson. We had a chioce between two great men. since then we're forced to choose the lesser of two jerks !