Comments on: McCain Eyes Longer Gas Tax Holiday

Says Proposal To Suspend Tax For The Summer May Need To Be Extended

[aj4321-2009]

I cannot believe the stupidity of McCain. How is he going to pay for it? Increase the deficit? Sell the country to the Chinese? I would ask what he is smoking, but it would be an insult to potheads.

[briannorwood]

I think McCain has had a recurrence of cancer over his left eye.

I saw a closeup of him yesterday on CNN and that thing he covers with mascara and makeup is definitely getting bigger, to the point that is is causing his skin over his eyebrow to crinkle.

When is he going to let us all know about it?

[mccharacter1]

Senator McCain''s character -

Sen. John McCain, speaking to a Republican dinner, June 1998: "Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno.%u201D

In 1986, during his initial run for the Senate he offered this joke, "A woman who is attacked on the street by a gorilla, beaten senseless, raped repeatedly and left to die. When she finally regains consciousness and tries to speak, her doctor leans over to hear her sigh contently and to feebly ask, ''Where is that marvelous ape?''"

[consciousnes]

Why do politicians always want to take the shortcut or the easy way out?
For the good of the country the Big Oil companies that have monopolized all the fuel conservation patents should be made to make them available for production on "AMERICIAN" automobiles. This would save the American consumer BILLIONS of dollars and make the American auto industry viable again. It would also force forign auto makers to make more efficient cars to keep up.
I''ll say it again, our Congress is being paid off by big oil companies to NOT do something. And we keep re-electing them. Shame on us, but more importently shame on Congress for not representing us in Washington.

[danstoned]

Will McCains ties to Bush cost him the election? GUARANTEED!

[hypnotoad72]

Save 10 cents in tax, in turn spend hundreds of dollars in replacement axles because the roads don''t get fixed (potholes are keen, d00d), then government will be bashed for being inefficient when not incompetent, and the corporate sect won''t offer any substitutes either.

Where am I wrong in that mindset, apart from being too cynical?

(sorry, had hit ''publish'' too early. :grumble: )

[hypnotoad72]

Save 10 cents in tax, in turn spend hundreds of dollars in replacement axles because the roads get fixed, then government will be bashed for being inefficient when not incompetent, and the corporate sect won''t offer any substitutes either.

Where am I wrong in that mindset, apart from being too cynical?

[mgeg1]

John McCain, stop pandering! I know you are too smart to believe the gas tax holiday will be beneficial. The fact that you claim to be weak on economic matters, yet still will not listen to the professional economists is beyond me. It makes you look like an idiot, or someone simply pandering for the votes of people who don''''t know any better. That''''s exploitation of the ignorant, and as a voting citizen of the United States I am wholly offended.

[dowell100]

Posted by ConDumbism
YOu must mean the white trash from Dixie that run around Iraq killing innocents and raping the local women. Must be your white trash hillbilly kin.
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Or possibly some Clinton supporter. Or Jesse Jackson fans. It could be anyone really.

Obama is generating a lot of hate and mistrust among all types people. Your comments are a perfect example of that.

[jmurrieta1]

Perhaps John McCain can ask his chief economic advisor Phil Gramm (who thinks we''re "whiners"), also an executive with Swiss bank UBS, to contribute some of the hundreds of millions of dollars that UBS swindled America out of with their tax dodges to help reduce gas prices!

[bushmccain4]

mccains right, the oil companies need more money for what? i don''t know? oh yeah we need more tax cut for the rich, his wife needs it for her private airplane so she could get around AZ....

[kofiananimus]

Posted by kissamaarse at 12:21 PM : Jul 18, 2008: Everyday, Jukebox John''''s credibility goes lower and lower.
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/flipflops
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AWESOME site! I%u2019ve been looking for a list of McCain%u2019s flip flops%u2026 thanks kissamaarse!

[kofiananimus]

What next McCain, alcohol discounts for alcoholics? Free crack for drug addicts?
How about pushing the pace on alternative, renewable energy, and dealing with the pain low income people feel through increasing minimum wage and tax rebates ONLY for the lowest income brackets, NOT for the rich.

[kissamaarse]

Everyday, Jukebox John''s credibility goes lower and lower. http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/flipflops

[condumbism]

Posted by dowell100
I say (Obama) only has a 50-50 chance of surviving his trip to Iraq. He has lots of enemnies there and theyre all carrying guns.

YOu must mean the white trash from Dixie that run around Iraq killing innocents and raping the local women. Must be your white trash hillbilly kin.

[homespunlady]

Ibsteve2u
I have no real problem with someone making a profit. On the other hand I do have a problem with an "unfair advantage" gained through immoral means such as graft or corruption.

Guess that''s why I stay Independent. Both sides of the political spectrum have sunk to such things.

I despise the left''s "carbon tax" scam as a way for polluters to take advantage of others rather than CLEAN up their act AND just ANOTHER DERIVATIVE SHELL GAME and I despise the OIL ONLY bunch as shortsighted FOOLS that are AFRAID of INNOVATION now that THEY have a stranglehold on world energy production.

Pickins may plan to profit but WITHOUT the INFRASTRUCTURE for HIS "alternative hookups" I CANNOT hook up either and believe me - I''VE TRIED.
MY current MEXICAN OWNED power company REFUSES to allow such a thing here in Missouri. They have a "TOKEN" home they tout but I''ve been told repeatedly that I''d have to go OFF GRID to have residential solar panels or wind.
So, if some "big guy" starts it maybe I can tag along.

As far as the water system buyouts - at least he''s American. there are plenty of greedy foreign and "international" corporations that are in on THAT NEW "PROFIT CENTER" to widen the WEALTH GAP further in this country.

[missingamerica]

In February of this year Pickens made the wild-axxed statement on CNBC that oil had reached its peak and it was time to short oil. He turned out to be full of it and totally wrong.

Posted by cbsblogger at 11:48 AM : Jul 18, 2008

It is not beyond the pall to consider the possibility that Cheney does not like Pickens, and so Pickens was not invited to the infamous "secret energy meeting" and had to base his projections using only his experience and logic instead of inside knowledge.

[briannorwood]

I think McCain has had a recurrence of cancer over his left eye.

I saw a closeup of him yesterday on CNN and that thing he covers with mascara and makeup is definitely getting bigger, to the point that is is causing his skin over his eyebrow to crinkle.

When is he going to let us all know about it?

[missingamerica]

Bear that in mind when he finally publicizes his "plan".

Posted by ibsteve2u at 11:43 AM : Jul 18, 2008

I should have added - in fairness and because it is true - it still beats the hell out of buying petroleum from the oil companies and thus perpetuating the cycle of violence in the Middle East while simultaneously impoverishing ourselves.

[cbsblogger]

Pickens knows nothing. He''s an oilman who wants the world to listen to his views on energy. Just what we need...an oilman running our alternative energy policy.

In February of this year Pickens made the wild-axxed statement on CNBC that oil had reached its peak and it was time to short oil. He turned out to be full of it and totally wrong.