Is Hillary wanting oil companies to pay the “gas tax” while Obama and his cronies want us bitter folks to pay it.

You’re an outright liar if you say Hillary thinks this will solve our economic woes—she’s got a ton of other proposals for that. Shoot, I’m unemployed at the end of June and the gas prices have me totally spooked because its being felt in the stores as well.

and it added to my headache. Jesus. The last three sentences were great.

“’for everyone who works hard and never gives up,’ she said, ’this one is for you.’ That message understandably resonates with voters who, when they are not bitterly clinging to their guns and their religion, are having trouble meeting their mortgage payments. As long as Clinton is willing to fight on simply for the sake of fighting, there really is no reason that this endless campaign has to end.”

If she gets her head up any higher into the rarefied atmosphere of privilege and disdain, her very small brain will start bleeding out of her upturned nose. What.a.fucking.clueless.snob. Fighting for the sake of people who are having trouble meeting their mortgage payments is solipsistic futility? asshole. I hate it that I cant stand reading the new yorker anymore. it’s like when I realized NPR was total crap. Then most of the political blogs.

This election really brings it home for me how the privileged wing of the democratic party REALLY has nothing but contempt for the working and middle class wing of the party. They really would rawther we just go away, or at least stay out in the cheap seats with the budweiser, after we vote for their little hopey glamour boy of course. Damn I so hope the working class base lands like thousand metric tons of budweiser and hot dogs on those fucking snobs tomorrow and for the rest of this election campaign.

Alter is typically not a stupid guy. His reaction to Hillary gas timeout is moronic. He implies that Hillary thinks that the timeout will solve the energy problem and he caught her at a useless solution. Does Alter know what is the solution to the energy problem? Does Obama suggest a solution? Is Change a solution to our energy problem?

For Hillary it was a symbolic show of concern for the working class; those for whom $30 is money. Of course neither Alter nor Obama care much about working people and neither thinks much about $30. (Probably a bottle of fancy wine for both elite members)

that $30 will buy me a few weeks worth of Ramen noodles…

Ramen noodles are a dollar, so yes, $30 is a month’s worth of food. Alternatively, you can go the dollar store spaghetti sauce root, since you can get two meals out of a jar, and even buying spaghetti you’d have a little money left over.

[x] Any (D) in the general. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.

What it would do is encourage oil consumption—just about the last thing we need.

there are tens of millions of working families whose budgets are being stretched to the breaking point because gas is a necessity — and this rich, arrogant asshole wants to tell them to tighten their belts even further?

For kids whose parents who make between 130 to 185% of the poverty level. These kids pay $.40 per day for lunch or $2 per week. See http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:guF…

The other thing is that, to the extent the gas tax passes on any savings to ordinary consumers, it will help even those too poor to pay income taxes or who pay very little income tax. A group helped little by middle class tax cuts.

CDS in chief at Newsweek and was calling for her to withdraw before TX and OH (at the start of March).

Evidently, someone thought he was being too shrill because a week later, he finally did STFU.

See Alter at Newsweek by date and if get to March 3, you’ll see he was calling her out to withdraw.

The guy has lost all credibility…sorry but he’s got a bright future lekking over at the Great Cheeto…I bet even KO will help get him on the rec list.

Is WWTSBQ from the New Yorker donation have to be scaled to New York prices? (I donate for every WWTSBQ; my fab GF donated to the maximum because of the gift of WWTSBQ.)

Where I live, $10 is $10. But in NY, I’d need $30 for to buy the same crap I can by here in the back of beyond. (I don’t live in the middle of nowehre, but you can see the middle of no where from the end of my driveway.)

Between my troll-charge ($3 per troll dropping) and WWTSBQ, I have to donate again and I’ve kicked in twice in the past six days.

They’re just asking working folks to take one for the team. Everybody’s got to share the pain. Now, where’s my fucking latte?

[x] Any (D) in the general. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.

I will use the money to do lots of extra unnecessary driving.

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Real ponies don’t oink- Patrick McManus

… of the rough draft of Alter’s WWTSBQ piece:

http://www.correntewire.com/found_near_d…

that was before I glimpsed the view from the Side-by-Side Wing Chairs…

dumpster diving is so declasse…well below the latte class.

Personally, I am outraged that the picture of Alter that they use at Newsweek.com is so old…he actually had hair on the top of his head as if we weren’t supposed to notice that it’s gone. Perhaps that’s because he’s been pulling it out in clumps lately.

By the way…an 18 cent cut in gas prices would represent approximately 2 1/2% at today’s prices…and it’s significant when filling up my Vespa

I started with a pledge to donate every time, then I moved on to a recurring donation, I figured it would be a recurring feature… how prescient was that, huh? :-)

SERMON:

“the pomposity of privilege”,

a comment about what jesus would have said about the media discussion critisising senator clinton’s gas tax moratorium.

i don’t know exactly what senator clinton had in mind, but, as lambert says, i trust paul krugman (and as an aside, only paul krugman) among major opinion writers)

but for me the point is not economic,

but political in the best sense,

as i think senator clinton understands.

in other words,

god damn it,

bear stearns just received a phenomenal bailout from the federal government worth freaking’ billions.

at the same time, j. p. maorgan chase (that’s j. peirpoint morgan, for those many history-challenged obama-mites) just received a huge gift from the federal government (the federal reserve) worth freaking’ billions.

is it just possible that senator clinton wants to show ordinary americans who never receive any “bailouts”, even when they need and deserve them,

that they, too, will be considered for quick help under her administration?

is it possible that those members of the recently created

weblog-world chapter of the cocktail-weenie-eating, koolaid-drinking society of american journos,

including such stars as arachne stassinopolis huffington, josh marshall, markos zuniga, john avarosis, kevin drum, and dozens of lesser weights (or is that lights?)

don’t have to worry about paying for gasoline?

and therefore are not as “price-sensitive” as ordinary folk?

is that just possible?

maybe, senator clinton is just saying, i’m thinking of you, yes you,

RIGHT NOW.

and i won’t forget about you you later.

senator obama’s response to the gas tax holiday proposal by senator clinton,

and the response of some economists,

and the response of the blog world chapter of the american society of cocktail-weenie-eating journos

is a recycled version of:

the poor must endure,

there are so many of them.

there’s nothing can be done to help them,

without upsetting the laws of economics.

on the other hand,

bear,stearns and j.p. morgan, chase,

are known and knowable entitites, vital to our economy,

and revered almost like a beloved old uncle.

what else are the cocktail-weenie-eating, blogging elites to do in this case but acquiesce with what wise economists “know” must be done when great national institutions have needs.

Thanks for so many great comments in this thread!

If anyone remembers did his very best to trash Al Gore in the 2000 election.

Not satisfied with trashing Gore throughout the campaign, during the Florida recount he repeated the ’Al Gore will do anything to get elected’ line in one of his columns.

From Audacity:

We lose elections and hope for the courts to foil Republican plans. We lose the courts and wait for a White House scandal.