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From "Head of State"
http://headofstate.blogspot.com/2008/05/clinton-calls-for-bad-weather-holiday.html
Monday, May 05, 2008
Clinton Calls for "Bad Weather Holiday"
"When asked this morning by ABC News' George Stephanopoulos if she could name a single economist who backs her call for a gas tax holiday this summer, HRC said "I'm not going to put my lot in with economists.”
The gas tax holiday is...so economically stupid (it would increase demand for gas and cause prices to rise, eliminating any benefit to consumers while costing the Treasury more than $9 billion, and generate more pollution) and silly (even if she won, HRC won’t be president this summer) as to be worrisome. That HRC now says she doesn’t care that what economists think is even more troubling."
-Robert Reich, May 4, 2008
I know we've got those "intellectual", high-falutin', elitist meteorologists, those "forecasters" with their complicated charts and their mumbo-jumbo, their high fronts and their low fronts, their Doppler radars. But I've come to say that we're going to put an end to all of that.
When my daddy and I went out in the morning in (Scranton, Indianapolis, Durham, Hagåtña, Charlotte Amalie, San Juan), and he said "It's going to be a sunny day today", well, that was good enough for me.
And that's why, if you vote for me on (May 6, May 13, June 3), I will put into effect a "Bad Weather Holiday" running from the years 2009-2012--and potentially extendable.
That's right. We shouldn't have to eat our (hot dogs, barbecue, tamales, Chicken Estufao, Stewed oxtail) under rainy skies. We've had enough of going off to work in the (streets, sands, seas) of this most beautiful (state, territory) only to face a cold, cloudy day. We know what it's like to rest our weary bones after a hard day of labor in the nearest (local watering hole, locale taberna, berlina) only to step out into a stiff, tiring wind.
The Weather issue is very real to me, as I've been meeting people across this nation who (walk, drive, sail, ride ox before stewing tail) to work, and would save precious sums if they did not have to spend their hard earned money on "umbrellas" and "rain coats" and other high priced, high class items of the upper crust. In my daddy's day, a newspaper held over the head by a worn, calloused hand was just fine.
So I say: Let the 'Umbrella Lobby' take the brunt--not our hard working citizens. Oh, sure. I know elite opinion and so called "academic experts" say that my plan would cause 12 straight years of hail, swarms of ravenous locusts, and a vortex of hurricanes ranging from the Mideast to the West Coast.
But I don't put stock in experts. And neither should you. And that's why you should vote for me on (May 6, May 13, June 3).
NOTE: North Carolina version: Drop all final "'g"s.
Cite:
Head of State
http://headofstate.blogspot.com/2008/05/clinton-calls-for-bad-weather-holiday.html
Not enough typos to be a genuine Nigerian 419er/American politician. The title of Matt's post partially makes up for that though.
The Krug-Man is very, very angry that Obama ads may have quoted him:
Is Obama misrepresenting what I said?
I don’t have a link to the ad itself, but apparently there’s an Obama ad citing something I said about McCain’s gas tax holiday as a way to attack Hillary Clinton.
I did not say that the Clinton proposal would increase oil industry profits. If the ad implies that I did, it should be retracted.
The Clinton proposal is financed by an excess profits tax. At worst, it sends money in a circle. In practice, it would probably reduce oil industry profits at least slightly, since the rise in the pre-tax price of gasoline probably wouldn’t wipe out all of the tax cut...
By the way, is the Clinton proposal "financed by an excess profits tax"? Because I could see someone saying that under a different, future, perhaps fantasy Congress, such a profits tax might be implemented.
But is there someone proposing some magic maneuver by which the excess profits tax is passed over a Bush Jr. veto?
What looks to me like reality is that at best you get maybe the p*ss ant little gas tax "holiday", and the part about making up the funds with magic new oil company taxes is something best reserved for those speculating about how someday the Iraq occupation will be like South Korea or Japan or Germany.
It's funny, because I don't see Krugman letting such a fantasy proposal by if it were from Obama or a Republican. But if Hillary Clinton says it'll happen, then, By God, it's permissible.
The really sad thing is there's lots of sheeple who like the gas tax holiday idea. You gotta wonder how pig stupid we look to the rest of the world when 2 of our 3 prez candidates mouth this kind of crap.
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THIS IS EXCELLENT NEWS!! FOR HILLARY!!!
Posted by idiotic | May 5, 2008 3:01 PM