Posts Tagged ‘McCain’
I’m sitting here, reading the Letter from the Obama Campaign to the McCain campaign about potential voter fraud issues, and it dawned on me… We need a war on voter fraud!
We’ve got a war on drugs
We’ve got a war on terror
Let’s bring a war on voter fraud into the mix. Let’s have our government busting down doors of vote criminals. We might even be able to win the war on voter fraud! How could we measure whether we are winning the war on voter fraud? Good question, but not really necessary to answer since we don’t have the answer for the other two wars mentioned above.
I got a good chuckle over the latest finding that <a href=”http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/10/palin.investigation/index.html”>Palin abused her powers as Alaskan governor</a>. Now, if we could just get someone to look into Dick Cheney. If there is any anti-Clintonian out there who votes for McPalin, the American people should collectively get to kick you in the crotch!
John McCain, looking to gain support for his gas tax holiday, reached out to Hillary Clinton supporters in a stunning speech stimulating the lives of all the “bitter” voters of Pennsylvania. While most of the media focused on the bitter voter aspect of the McCain speech, I found it damning for the McCain campaign that his advisers believe his gas tax holiday is a winning argument. God help us if we have an administration that believes this idiotic economic policy will do anything more than severely damage the US economy.
I have my fair share of critical remarks for economists in general. I’ve mentioned before that my econ professor a few years ago gave me a B on a paper where I theorized that constantly increasing energy prices would leader to inflation that could not be controlled by the Federal Reserve. He, like many economists, is misguided. That’s part of the reason I disliked my economics degree program. It was mostly a bunch of bologna.
However, there is one other segment of the public policy industry that is even more… well, they are just idiots when it comes to economics. This group is known as politicians, particularly presidential candidates. In an article today, Reuters reported that McCain and Clinton both support a “gasoline tax holiday“. The idea would be to suspend the federal tax on gasoline over the summer.
Folks, it doesn’t get much more idiotic than this! This would drive the demand of the gasoline up, while nothing would happen to the supply. The net result is a continued rise in gas prices, putting more money into the pockets of Exxon and friends (to give them even greater profits). Then gas prices would shoot up almost 20 cents instantly after Summer.
Obama’s points should have just shot up at least 10-20% since he didn’t support this moronic policy!
- Don’t compare John McCain to George W. Bush
- Focus on your own ideas, not another Senator’s
- Stay true to your promise of not running politics as usual
- Win handedly, so you are officially running against John McCain and it would actually make sense for you to say something about John McCain
Free as a courtesy to democracy in America!
