I believe the Federal gas tax is about 18 cents - maybe a little higher. States impose their own taxes, which are usually more than that.

Overall, giving a "gas tax holiday" would have little effect, I think, on the pocketbooks of working people, especially since gas has gone up (In my area, at least) about 50 cents in the last couple of months.

I like that Clinton mentions going after the oil co. profits, but we ought to be taxing the crap out of gas, not encouraging consumption by lowering price.

Yes, the EU and Canada tax gas a lot, and guess what? They have more efficient cars (The EU does, at least), drive less, and have better public transportation.

But in the mix, not so much.

I think that, as pointed out in the post, many of those are people would not be voting Democratic anyway.

Plus, it's possible (And totally unsupported by any polls that I know of) that historically low-turnout minorities would be more inclined to vote.

A net plus for the left, I'd say.

You say that "Jews and Palastinians are very close genetically. In fact you could say they are cousins"

If you had some blood from a jew, and some blood from a palistinian, do you think you could actually tell them apart? I mean, do jews have little Stars of Davids floating around in their DNA, or something?

You allude to some research on this - Do you have a link? I am really curious

You took me the wrong way entirely, Pancho.

Truthfully, I always assumed the DNA would be indistiguishable between the two.

My interest lies in the idea that Judiasm is a religion, not a race. I have jewish relatives that are always pushing the idea that we come from some noble race, when the reality, I would suspect, is that jews were just one of many tribes wandering around in the fertile cresent, and while there may be some genetic markers that identify people from a particular area (I don't know enough about it to even know what this might mean), it would seem to me that Jews and Palastinians have been boinking around enough to make them hard, if not impossible, to tell apart.

Mostly I was thinking about the whole ambiguous concept of race, and how it seems confused with "Nationality". Are the Irish a "Race"? Are the Catholics a "Race"? The Jews seems to claim both.

Thanks for the link - I'll check it out.

Perhaps I could have been clearer.

Did you think I was a Jew or an Arab?

I wouldn't bother with Robot - You might just as well bang your head against a wall. I knew someone like him once, he almost became a relative. Full of "facts" and figures that add up to nothing. All trees, no forest.

Sugarman can get positively unhinged on this subject.

Robot is not a Christian - Based on another thread yesterday, I'd say he is a Super Jew. There is a big difference between Conservative Christians and Super Jews.

Conservative Christians are hypocritical, intolerant bigots and racists. Super Jews are...Umm...

Nevermind.

Is that that whole "Rapture" thing, where in the end, god comes down and kills everyone who doesn't convert, and the rest go to heaven, or something like that?

I seem to remember reading that this was somehow tied in into the religious tight's affection and support for Israel.

So, on the radical end, the christians kill the jews, the jews kill the muslims and the muslins kill the christians. Maybe then we can populate the earth with those who are called human beings.

to the Can We Ask site:

http://net.gop.com/canweask/default.aspx

I just asked "Why do republicans hate America?"

We should flood this one out.

Mine hasn't posted yet.

Didn't see that coming...

Does anybody come?

Did you go to math school for that?

I'd say you're 100% full of it

So does getting our good soldiers killed for a bunch of f*king lies.

I'd rather that he play golf.

Before there were jews

And before there were arabs

There were human beings.

I think Robot was talking about Israel.

Is Carney's original election 2 years ago the result of Deans 50 state stratagy? There are quite a few instances of blue-dogs getting in on the Democratic ticket because of Dean, but it is not necessarily a bad thing. Getting people in once-red districts used to voting for Democrats is 90% of the battle, I think.

This is an area where the DNC should have followed up.

It appears he is not facing a primary challenge, which is unfortunate. The Republicans will surely target this seat.