Breaking: Clinton to Introduce Gas Tax Holiday Bill to Senate [UPDATED
Just when I thought that the Junior Senator from New York couldn't possibly be more shameless, I run across this WSJ wire:Sen. Hillary Clinton plans to introduce legislation today in the U.S. Senate...
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I have been away from my country for 8 years. While abroad I watched in horror as the country I love blast a crippled third world country for no reason. I fell down the stairs the morning I found out...
View ArticleGas Tax as Metaphor
Barack Obama has taken the right stand, and has said the right things. But he needs to say more. Because the issue exactly highlights what's wrong with our current state of politics and why it must...
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"Gas Tax" flyer tells the story in no uncertain terms...
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View ArticleIt's the Jobs Stupid: Gas Tax Holiday Jobs/$$ Lost by State, 150 Economists...
Follow below the fold for a State by State breakdown of the Jobs and Federal Highway Funds lost during this 15 week "Gas Tax Holiday" proposed by John McCain and Hillary Clinton.StateJobsFederal...
View ArticleGail Collins all but endorses Obama
In her Op-Ed piece in today's NY Times, Gail Collins all but endorsed Barack Obama.Writing about the proposed gas tax holidy, Collins calls it the dumbest idea in the campaign. She excoriates both...
View ArticleSuperdelegate Mark Udall is against Clinton's gas tax gimmick
Congressman Mark Udall from Colorado's Fighting 2nd is an undeclared superdelegate. He's also running to give us two (D) Senators against a typically corrupt and shiftless Republicon named Bob...
View ArticleVIDEO: Hillary's Election Day Giveaway!
Gas Tax Holiday not enough for you? Wait...there's more!
View ArticleFraming the debate: Gas Tax Holiday (w/ poll)
[My first diary here, so please be patient....]I have a thought about our framing the debate on the proposed "gas tax holiday" by Clinton and McCain. Gather 'round this here campfire an listen to my...
View ArticleHillary Clinton's political pandering and playing people for fools!!(w/poll)
It's a fact that most of Hillary Clinton's supporters are lower class, un-educated, and never went to college. She is CLEARLY using this as an advantage...
View ArticlePandermonium As Clinton's Campaign Strategy
Hillary Clinton's campaign has entered a new phase. It is now officially in pandermonium, a combination of pandering and pandemonium. The Clinton campaign reached pandermonium when it hijacked John...
View ArticleGas Tax "Holiday" not worth it.
There is no good time to raise the tax on gasoline. If you do it when the price of regular is $1.50 a gallon (remember those days?), even an extra dime seems like an outrageous assault on the wallet....
View ArticleClinton: Those Against Gas Tax Holiday Are "Elite"
From HuffPoWhen asked to name a credible economist who backed her idea to use a windfall profit tax against oil companies to fund the suspension of a tax on gasoline, Clinton responded:"I'm not going...
View ArticleClinton & Obama "Debate" The Gas Tax Holiday
Because I believe this is the defining issue and moment in the campaign, I have repeatedly posted what I and others think of the Clinton/McCain gas tax holiday idea. From how dumb it is and...
View ArticleElmendorf: Poster Child for Clinton's Corporate Lobbyists
In talking about the Clinton/McCain gas tax holiday proposal yesterday, Obama mentioned a Shell oil lobbyist as the surrogate advocating this idea.ABC News Jake Tapper, says that starting at 10:53,...
View ArticleObama - Don't Let Her Off the Hook!
The worst part about the entire gas tax holiday fracas, besides being an obvious and transparent pander, is Hillary's insistence that the economists are wrong and that even though she is "stunned" by...
View ArticleHillary Clinton Still Campaigning for the Black Vote
Senator Hillary Clinton was just interviewed on the "Steve Harvey Morning Show." This is a nationally syndicated urban radio show with a large African American listening audience. Steve Harvey is a...
View ArticleBarack Will Not Make a Phony Promise to the American People!
Barack will not make a phony promise to the people on offering them a gift which he cannot deliever on nor can Hillary or John.
View ArticleWomen aren't good enough to hold office!
There's no 'after the jump' suspense here. As a woman, I want to make it clear that it's not MY belief that women aren't good enough to hold office. It's the belief of the Clinton camp, and...
View ArticleOpen letter to Superdels: Do what's right for the country
There has been much written over the past several months about what the proper role of the Superdelegates is: Should they should vote with their precinct/district/state? Should they exercise their...
View ArticleFriends of the Earth Obama Ad & Endorsement-Updated w/Obama's New Gas Tax...
The National Environmental Group, Friends of the Earth, Endorses Barack Obama for PresidentBrent Blackwelder, President of Friends of the Earth noted Obama's strong pro-environment record and the...
View ArticleCONFIDENTIAL/URGENT POLITICAL PROPOSAL
CONFIDENTIAL/URGENT POLITICAL PROPOSALDear SirFirst we must solicit your confidence in this issue. This is by virtue as being utterly confidential and "top secret".We are SENATOR HILLARY CLINTON, the...
View ArticleObama Voted for the Gas Tax Holiday in Illinois
and it didn't fraking work.Wanna hear some straight talk &trade, here's what Obama admitted yesterday on Meet the Press.As an Illinois Senator Barack Obama voted for a gas tax holiday, and at the...
View ArticleThe Worst Aspect Of The Gas Tax Holiday
Ever since McCain and Clinton proposed and Obama opposed a Gas Tax Holiday, a proposal to repeal the 18.4 cent Federal tax on gasoline for the summer months, there has been near universal condemnation...
View ArticleGas Tax Repeal is Fast Track Privatization
If the folks in Indiana are impressed by the Hillary Gas Tax so-called Holiday, it's because the Hoosiers there are already dumb enough to PRIVATIZE their roads! If Clinton backers can witness the...
View Article29 Superdelegates Call Hillary Out
A Siegel posted an informative diary on Tuesday, but it was lost amidst the North Carolina/Indiana primary results. 28 members of the House have banded together to oppose the Clinton/McCain plan for a...
View Article"It's the Economists Stu***!"
Menendez: "Thank God" Economists Don't Make Public Policycopyright © 2008 Betsy L. Angert. BeThink.orgSomething momentous occurred and the news media said nothing. The press spoke of North Carolinian...
View ArticleGas Tax: Central issue of general? Of our generation?
If you asked Al Gore what he considers the most pressing world issue, he would respond global warming. He would be right but misdirected. If you asked John Edwards, he would say poverty. He would be...
View ArticleThis election will be a referendum on "elitism".
In talking to people about the election, many people believe that it willy likely boil down to little more than one issue. Some think it will be Iraq. Others believe it will be the economy. Still...
View ArticleGax Tax Controversy Is Red Flag for Dems
While the call by Hillary Clinton and John McCain to suspend the gasoline tax is unquestionably a crass pander to working class swing voters more concerned about rising energy prices than global...
View ArticleThe Elections and Ethics; Gas and Gratification
Will A Gas Tax Holiday Help?copyright © 2008 Betsy L. Angert. BeThink.orgAmericans speak of the divide within this country. Most accept the labels. We are a nation of Red states and Blue regions....
View ArticleHRC as 'Lucy'
Hillary IS Lucy. Joe Six Pack WAS Charlie Brown. Gas Tax Holiday WAS the 'football'.
View ArticleMcCain & Lobbyists
I got a MoveOn email asking me to call John McCain's campaign headquarters (I'm sure many of you did as well). I prefer to send emails, so I went to the McCain website and used their Contact Us link to...
View ArticleObama: (proposed) Trucker Relief Plan
Truckers have been some of the hardest hit by the rising price of gas, which has doubled in the last 12 months. I suggest Obama start thinking hard about a plan to give relief to small business truck...
View ArticleYou Can Take My Wine, But Give Me My Future Back
For the holiday weekend, I grappled with the decision of whether to go to Grand Junction, CO, known as the 'heart of Colorado wine country,' or to let the gloom and doom of the rising gas prices win,...
View Article'Gas Tax Holiday'...again from McSame ? Off his meds ?
ON 15 April, McSame rolled out the 'Gas Tax Holiday' (repealing the Fed Gas Tax 18.5/24.0 cents respectfully gas/diesel).It's 'back'. Mentioned at a fundrasier today (where everyone has to pony up...
View Articleplease forward - this could save a life!
My husband and I tried our hand at a new and exploding genre tonight - the political chain letter. We picked a random topic (in this case the gas tax holiday) and ran with it. Our guidelines were that...
View ArticleMcCain Panders, Obama Stands Firm on Offshore Drilling
I am proud of Obama for standing up against McCain's latest ineffectual pander.Just like McCain's absurd "gas tax holiday" proposal (which all economists agree would save Americans either nothing or...
View ArticleDr. McCain Calls Economic Problems "Psychological." Again.
John McCain isn't a psychologist, but he's playing one on TV. Again. For the second time in two months, the supposed maverick turned modern day Freud has diagnosed Americans' economic ills and...
View ArticleMcCain and Gramm on Recession: It's All Mental
Just two weeks after John McCain's latest declaration that the American economic slowdown is "psychological," his top adviser Phil Gramm also insisted the recession is all in our heads. The American...
View ArticleMcCain:Shame the oil companies?
I've stopped laughing long enough to write this short diary about McCain's gas tax holiday plan.
View ArticleObama's Gas Tax Holiday Moment
As the following two clips highlight, I think this could be Obama's gas tax holiday moment: as in the primary, he needs to repeatedly hit McCain and the GOP hard for their gimmickry and ignorance.Like...
View ArticleWhat about that gas tax holiday?
Remember when McCain wanted to have a gas tax holiday? And everyone said it was a bad idea because it would deplete funds necessary to rebuild roads and bridges?http://www.nytimes.com/...The fund is...
View ArticleMcCain's Troubles with Economists Continue to Mount
Over the past two weeks, John McCain has learned the hard way that economics is called the "dismal science" for good reason. Plummeting in the polls as the meltdown of the global financial system...
View ArticleRaise The Gasoline Tax, Immediately/Pronto/Now!
Today the average price of Gasoline in the United States has dropped to $1.929 per gallon, per the AAA's assessment of national prices. Of that, roughly $0.48 come from state and federal gasoline...
View ArticleGasoline Prices Are Rising Again? Time to Raise My Taxes (Yes, You read that...
Nearly 3 months ago when I wrote the original Raise the Gasoline Tax diary, the average price of gasoline stood at $1.929.After bottoming out at 1.616 per gallon in December however, gasoline prices...
View ArticleREPOST: Gasoline Prices Are Rising Again? Time to Raise My Taxes (Yes, You...
This diary was originally posted February 16, 2009, more than a year ago. Given the BP Oil Disaster and the suspension of off shore drilling, I felt it appropriate to repost this diary.There is so much...
View Articlepeople are smart
Oh no. I'm so concerned! This gas tax "holiday" issue is going to make Barry O. look even more elitist! On one side we have Obama, Every Single Economist, Rich Liberals, Environmentalists, People Who...
View ArticleBeware of Republicans Bearing Crappy Polls
One of McCain/Clinton's arguments in favor of the infantile candyfest they are calling a "gas tax holiday" is that the "American People" just love the idea. And they have a poll to back it up!Really?...
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