The House GOP revolt--now christened the #dontgo/Don't Go Movement--has been sustained by bloggers and Twitter-ers dispersing information to everyone in the world. So in that spirit, here are some cleaned up notes from the Heritage Foundation's Conservative Blogger Briefing today. I'll be posting later about this here and on TechRepublican, but if these notes can help anyone in furthering this cause, wonderful. Perfect. Just what I'm hoping for.

For those looking for great soundbites, I took the liberty of pulling out from favorite quotes from each representative's talk with us. Anything not in direct quotations is my paraphrasing. Anything incorrect is most likely my transcription error.

Representative Jeb Hensarling (TX-5)

• Best line: "Speaker Pelosi, let my people vote."
• Republicans want an up/down vote on the American Energy Act, an "all-of-the-above" plan that includes offshore drilling, support for alternative energies, and a host of other provisions.
• We need more oil now because we're still in a carbon-based economy and people are hurting now. For some reason Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats have a "religious aversion" to any carbon-based energy.
• If we commit to producing American energy now, we will see future prices go down immediately.
• Nancy Pelosi claimed she would run an open and fair Congress and now she won't let comprehensive bipartisan legislation about an issue that Americans care about most to even come to a vote.

Representative Duncan Hunter (CA-52)

• Best quote (okay, ad libbed here): The price of oil coming down makes the Republican case. "Supply and demand works; perception works." The price of oil goes down when Americans pursue energy independence.
• Paying money for foreign oil/gas means that American dollars are eventually going back to support (as an example) weapons used to fight American troops. See: Hugo Chavez in Venezuela using "American petroleum dollars to purchase Russian hardware."
• There are people on the fringe of the Democratic Party who "truly want" Americans to park their cars and quit driving, but that won't work in a wide open and far flung country like ours (e.g. in a rural area where you may have to drive 100mi+ for your son to play a baseball game).

Representative Mike Pence (IN-6)

• Best quote: "Friday it was a stunt but what's happening now is unprecedented."
• Second best quote: "Welcome to the revolution."
• Nancy Pelosi is frustrating the will of the American people. There is a bipartisan majority in Congress that would support a comprehensive energy plan that includes more drilling. That explains why the Speaker has never brought it up for a vote.

Representative John Carter (TX-31)

• Best quote: "Nobody really thought it would go past 'oh, we'll just talk to an empty chamber.'"
• Second best quote: "This is the future of America. This is what it's all about."
• Third best quote, in reference to the MoveOn protest: "Let 'em come. Our message is true. Our message is right."
• The "head in the sand position" says "if we just wait until after the election..." -- but that's the wrong message to send to the American people.
• "Alternatives [alternative energies] are wonderful" and we need them in the future to replace American dependence on foreign oil.
• High gas prices are a burden on every part of America. When school starts in September, "millions of school buses will be rolling and school districts see a 50% increase in the cost of fuel since May when they closed down school."
• Seventy members of Congress are coming back today and there will be more in the future.
• We shouldn't open the strategic oil reserve. It'll lower prices between three and seven cents/gallon until October when we have to replace it all. It's a strategic reserve because it's for a crisis situation in which a major foreign oil supply is cut off, and we need to ration in that situation. But if we use it now, we'll go through $20/barrel oil and have to replace it with $120/barrel oil.

Representative Marilyn Musgrave (CO-4)

• Best quote: "We have a Speaker on a book tour. Can she identify with the average American?"
• Republicans have been discouraged because they don't see their politicians fighting back enough, but this is a good fight.

Representative Louie Gohmert (TX-1)

• Best funny quote, about wind energy production in Massachusetts: "I don't know if Massachusetts sucks or blows."
• Second best funny quote, about caribou being harmed by pipelines: "Caribou, when they want to go on dates, will invite each other to go to the pipeline...Something about the pipeline makes them amorous."
• People who say it will be 10 years before we get oil from ANWR are using 30-year-old information. Right now there's a 74-mile pipeline there; it could be as soon as two years to start having oil and gas flowing in from ANWR.
• People said putting platforms and oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico would decimate the ocean life and end all fishing and shrimping, but now the best fishing opportunities are around those platforms because they act as artificial reefs.

Representative John Shadegg (AZ-3)

• Best quote: "For some people, gas prices are a life or death issue."
• Second best quote: "The truth is that current anti-energy policy makes no economic sense, no environmental sense, and no national
  security sense."
• The poorest Americans drive the oldest cars with the worst mileage and live the farthest from where they work.
• The United States has had an "anti-energy" policy for 30 years.
• Our circumstances have changed in two important ways. First, the price of energy has increased dramatically. Second, technology has improved so that we can remove oil in an environmentally friendly way that is more environmentally sensitive than any other country.
• The American spirit means that we're a "can-do" people and Nancy Pelosi is representing a "can't-do" attitude. Every time the country has faced a seemingly impossible challenge, it's risen to the occasion.
• Democrats who worry about the environmental problems with oil rigs off-shore aren't worried about oil coming to the United States in ships, which could also produce an environmental calamity.
• It would be wonderful to have Senator McCain come down to the floor of the House to speak.