Open 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 ArticleHillary Solutions Watch: Day 7 & Still No Gas Tax Bill
It was back on April 29 when Sen. Clinton first promised to introduce a gas tax bill to the Senate:
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...
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