what? do things that hurt even though they are for the best? That's fucking ridiculous. What kind of politician would do something so stupid?

8/4/2008 4:55:56 PM

oil continues to drop.(thank god) We dont need to raise taxes on ANYTHING, just let the market work.

"The market is increasing the odds now that the drilling deal will get done and we will see more production coming out of the Gulf of Mexico," Flynn said. "There's nothing that cures high prices like high prices."

Exactly.

8/4/2008 4:58:31 PM

We need high prices

8/4/2008 4:59:06 PM

Im not saying its politically viable -- in fact, Ive already made that point this thread

Dukakis (or Mondale?) was the only politician to run on a platform of increased taxes and he tanked, hard

8/4/2008 6:52:29 PM

^
Yes running on tax increases is a big mistake.

Like Clinton, Obama is running the "Middle Class Tax Cut" scam. And, like Clinton, the tax cut will magically disappear if Obama gets elected

8/4/2008 9:48:40 PM

On a related topic, did anyone else here see Pelosi on This Week on Sunday? Dear God, she never looked more like a bug-eyed loon than she did there--is this really the speaker that some of you want?

Watch Pelosi tap dance here:

Part one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hjDwj6fyv8

Part two:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYS9MlN5BHk

8/5/2008 1:31:56 PM

Quote :

"Nancy Pelosi sucks and nobody likes her fyi"

8/5/2008 1:33:18 PM

^^I made it three minutes into the first video and had to shut it off and go vomit. Pelosi litterally makes me sick. Is it that hard to answer a simple question? Or for that matter, vote yes or no?

8/5/2008 10:37:13 PM

it really is absolutely amazing. Representing the people who vote her or doing what's best for the nation is completely out of the picture. All of what she says is nothing but a political compromise for those in power.

8/5/2008 10:57:08 PM

i gotta admit. i almost barfed at the 3-minute mark, too...

8/5/2008 10:59:38 PM

Quote :

"The worst approach is one now being considered by the Senate: slap a windfall profits tax, or WPT, on oil companies. The United States has tried this before, between 1980 and 1987, and the results were hugely counterproductive, according to a 1990 Congressional Research Service report. "The WPT reduced domestic oil production between 3 and 6 percent, and increased oil imports from between 8 and 16 percent," says the report. "This made the U.S. more dependent upon imported oil.""

I think windfall profits taxes are practically and morally repugnant.

[Edited on August 11, 2008 at 4:32 PM. Reason : .]

8/11/2008 4:31:56 PM

^^^^, ^^^, and ^^ Yep.

And Pelosi's sold less than 3000 copies of her new book. So, not only is she an ineffective speaker, nobody really cares what she has to say.

8/11/2008 4:40:34 PM

Wow. I had always assumed you could sell more copies of a book than that just by accident.

8/11/2008 6:27:42 PM

^ LOL.

Yep. Pelosi is a dismal failure, as a speaker and as an author.

8/11/2008 6:30:53 PM

Quote :

"And Pelosi's sold less than 3000 copies of her new book."

this just made my day

8/11/2008 6:35:38 PM