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Thursday, April 27, 2006
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As seen on the tonight show, the President's 'third term' will concentrate on outreach. Thanks to Craig DeLuz for bringing this parody to us. Yes, Republicans have a sense of humor. See the video.
4:06:25 PM 
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NYT has the wrong headline. It should read 'Republicans turn into Democrats, offer $100 street money'. How asinine is it to think that $100 is going to solve the problem? For people who work for a living and drive a car, that hundred bucks wouldn't last until the next full moon.
Republicans are now showing the same disrespect for the American people as Democrats, trying to get votes with $100 of hush money. Fix the problem by increasing supply and let the people keep more of their own money.
Republicans Offer Plan on Gas Prices. The senators' proposals include a $100 "gas-tax holiday," investment in alternative fuels and an investigation of price gouging. By DAVID STOUT. [NYT > Home Page]
3:09:03 PM
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It worked fine last year, as does the now annual back-to-school tax holiday. If only big brother (pun intended) would similarly have a tax holiday on gasoline, and give up twenty-five or thirty cents of it temporarily. Like until actual supply is actually increased.
Gov. approves sales tax holiday. Gov. Jeb Bush today signed legislation authorizing Florida's second annual, 12-day, sales-tax holiday for hurricane preparedness. [PensacolaNewsJournal.com - Local News]
2:55:04 PM
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"If there is anything worse than partisan demagoguery, it is bipartisan demagoguery", says Thomas Sowell on the price per gallon hysteria. Politicians of both parties falling over each other to try buy votes rather than to 'come clean' and come back to economic reality, and fix the problem by increasing supply. It's that simple.
What has also happened in recent times has been that higher gasoline prices bring outraged charges of "gouging" by Big Oil. Some of the most emotionally powerful political words and phrases are wholly undefined -- "exploitation," "greed," "social justice" and the perennial favorite, "gouging."
Are the oil companies charging all that the traffic will bear? No doubt. But they were probably charging all that the traffic would bear when the price of gasoline was half of what it is today.
Even businesses that are losing money are charging all that the traffic will bear. Otherwise they could raise their prices and stop losing money.
His article entitled "Oily politicians" and is a must read, especially by our politicians.
GOP Bloggers has a quick study in economics 101 that is relevant to this subject, and how it is lacking in Washington.
10:43:36 AM
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Tire slashing Democrat operatives actually going to jail. Judge Michael B. Brennan exceeded the recommendation of prosecutors who asked for no jail time, but the judge saw voter suppression more serious than slashing tires. Can't argue with that.
JAIL TIME FOR TIRE-SLASHERS. Remember those unhinged Dem operatives in Milwaukee who slashed the tires of GOP get out the vote vans on Election Day in 2004? Finally, some justice: Four Democratic presidential campaign workers were sentenced to jail time ranging from four months... [Michelle Malkin]
1:53:21 AM
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I like Stephen Hawking's take on Al Gore and his upcoming film "An Inconvenient Truth".
You can hear Stephen Hawking every week on Point Five.
[Point Five]
And in the Huffington Post, Juliet Eilperin had this to say about Al Gore and his global warming campaign.
At this point, he just wants to force people to accept the fact that the globe is warming at a rapid rate, and take action to stop it.
Emphasis added, but is exactly what Al Gore is all about. But I don't beleive he has left the 2000 election behind him. He can wear that 'medal' for life.
12:09:14 AM
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