Letters to the Editor
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Bush-ism?
So, she's ignoring reality and calling it "leadership". Wow, that sounds exactly like something the Bush administration would claim.
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Thank God
Now this is over. And here is how you know it was all total nonsense to begin with - Hillary will act like she never thought about the gas tax holiday by Monday AM. And it will be gone and forgotten by Wednesday AM.
McCain at least gets to trash the Democractic congress that refused to pass this rubbish, so he gets something out of it. Maybe a few points that he can't capitalized on because no one pays attention to him. But points nonetheless.
But I'll be damned if I can figure out where the percentage was for Hillary in backing this.
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Exactly
Doesn't listen to experts. What next, her own science? Sound familiar?
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Wolfson sounds just like Bush
With his simplistic repetition and stubborn insistence that whatever s/he's doing is the right thing, Wolfson sounds like the White House Occupant. Why not just call Hillary "The Decider"?
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@paraprof
You see, the very idea that there are such things as experts, or that we should listen to them, is an elitist notion. It says that some people know better than others, when we all know that every real American knows best. After all, we put a towel-snapping C-student frat boy in the White House, and look how well that worked out.
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@ Joe Buck
You forgot "dry drunk" and "ex-Cokehead" (as far as we know). Wow, imagine the democratic leadership not supporting another waste of money. What happened? Are we on the moon?!
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The nerve.
Expert consensus, what the hell do they know? They must be elitists!
O-08
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Hillary is more republican than democrat. What more proof does one need?
She's now imitating Bush. Damn, your campaign has to be up against the ropes when you resort to that! What's next, is she going to land on an aircraft carrier with a codpiece and a banner behind her saying "Nomination Accomplished"?
What's the opposite of buyers' remorse? Because, that's how I feel more and more about my vote for Obama.
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I guess I'm crazy
But here's what I thought when McCain proposed this:
1.) gas prices will likely go up at least 18 cents/gallon this summer, erasing this temporary gain.
2.) what do we do about road crews that need to work on roads and bridges? Will they just be laid off, or will the states eat the money it takes to employ them on fixing roads and checking bridges? If the state doesn't pay already, will they have to just eat the money normally paid for by the Feds, putting states more in debt?
3.) what about our nation's infrastructure? I live one state over from Minnesota, where the bridge collapsed last summer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-35W_Mississippi_River_bridge
We need bridge inspections and work to continue (I'm sure it will, but who's paying for it?).
I heard someone on NPR mentioning Obama's take on it, and they described his take as "complex". I thought, "Damn. I guess I'm complex." Maybe I'm too complex, but I just think this is a bad idea.
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@HP
But I'll be damned if I can figure out where the percentage was for Hillary in backing this.
McCain's idea looks like a gift to the people, but can easily be criticized as being a disguised gift to the oil companies because they'll just jack up the price to compensate for the tax reduction and pocket the money themselves.
Hillary tries to look clever by one-upping McCain with an idea that we're supposed to believe fixes the flaw in McCain's proposal by imposing a tax on the oil companies.
In fact, Hillary's plan at best does nothing: Instead of the tax being explicitly stated as being added to the pump price, it gets built into the price of the fuel and the oil companies later pay it to the government. The only benefit to anyone is the P.R. value to Hillary of appearing to give a price cut AND hitting the evil oil companies with a new tax.
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bilhelm
@ Joe Buck
You forgot "dry drunk" and "ex-Cokehead" (as far as we know). -- bilhelm
Don't forget coward draft-dodger chickenhawk. Oh, and CIA cover-blowing traitor.
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The Leherer Report had a complete clip of Obama's explanation of why he opposed it --
he did good ... very concise, NOT professorial, without those pauses that make me a little crazy ...
I was surpise ... McCain's audience was whooping and hollering but Clinton's seemed approving but less whoopingly enthusiastic perhaps... It may well be situational, being a clip and all particularly since all the candidates are kept surrounded by "friendly crowds" who know how to play "enthusiasm" for those folks at home watching TV
Hope the gas holiday is an utter nonstarter ...
However, if gas prices keep climbing I think many jobs will be lost as spending dries up ... and "national emergency" measures wrt carpools, work week overnight accomodations, and other measure to reduce the number of communters should be implemented.
Los Angeles after the 1994 earthquake could be something of a model when all those freeways fell down ...
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Surprise?
I was surpise ... McCain's audience was whooping and hollering ...
That was no audience, that was the message.
What McCain said was just a load of nonsense. The real objective was to create the impression that lots of people approve of McCain's plan. The "audience" was probably the most carefully scripted part of the whole thing.
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Just tell 'em what they want to hear..
Hillary doesn't actually believe her proposal is a good idea, she realizes it will solve next to nothing, but she is also desperate. She knows she needs to keep winning the working class vote, and is hoping they will fall for her ridiculous pandering.
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Clintonists?
Where are you Hillary supporters on this issue?
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you know...
...I was ready to give Clinton the benefit of the doubt right up until this pathetic pandering over the gas tax. She HAS to know better, but she's just pandering to phantom middle-class voters who she, or her brain-trust--such as it is--think will actually be swayed by such pandering.
I'm at the point now where if she's the nominee I'll certainly vote for her, but with my nose held firmly closed.
She's a corrupt, pandering hack. Why..just like her putative opponent. Damn. The American Political System at work...it can cough up two completely worthless hacks.
Obama is no saint. and no savior. But I'll vote for him with far more enthusiasm in the wake of this debacle.