..the Qatari Energy Minister sees this and suggests that if the politicians would quit with the rhetoric which is driving the prices up, if they would stop, he thinks prices would drop at least $15 a barrel.

- In any event if we don’t stop being hussled by the greenpeacers, pretty soon you’re going to have a crisus on your hands if we don’t already.

- BTW in another piece today a Cal legislator went on FOX and talked about something I mentioned in an earlier post last week concerning the real “problems” behind the immigration mess. He said everyone is pretending the financial burden caused by the large number of illegals doesn’t exist, when in fact its already bancrupted the state twice to the point of requiring long term bond loans in massive amounts with interest.

- I know this is true, Arnold is going to float yet another record multi billions bond this fall, which is the direct result of undocumented aliens on the public health, welfare, housing, and school systems.

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- Does this idiocy in Washington never end?

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- Course what the “other” 260 million Americans that have to work for a living are going to do is still a little up in the air, but we can all rest easy with our elected officials on the job. We citizens just have to be patient and wait till all the partisan opportunism and political jockeying is finished.

- After all, thats what we send them to Washington to do right?

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WASHINGTON – Senate Republicans advocate sending $100 rebate checks to millions of taxpayers, and a Democrat is leading the campaign for a 60-day gasoline tax holiday.

Either way, it seems no one in Congress wants to be without a plan, however symbolic, to attack the election-year spike in gasoline prices.

A vote is possible as early as this week on the Senate GOP approach, which calls for $100 rebate checks for taxpayers to cushion the impact of higher gasoline prices. The measure seems unlikely to prevail, at least initially, since it includes a highly controversial proposal to open a portion of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.

Senate Republicans also favor extending a tax break that manufacturers receive for each hybrid vehicle they make, and want
President Bush to suspend deliveries to the nation’s strategic petroleum reserve for six months.

Democrats seemed caught off guard by the GOP maneuvering, but a spokesman said they would have a plan of their own.

Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., has proposed a 60-day suspension in the federal tax on gasoline and diesel, a holiday that he says would cut the cost of gasoline by more than 18 cents a gallon and reduce the price of diesel fuel by more than 24 cents a gallon.

- All the while they’ll go on pandering to their base by killing every refinery/exploration/drilling bill in sight.

- Our “caring” Democraps in government in action.

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Forest, Harkin ain’t my buddy. That lying sob needs a pork chop around his neck for a dog to like him.

Speaking of Donkeycrat demagogues, Dodd and Byron Dorgan of North Dakota introduced an amendment to the emergency supplemental spending bill now in the Senate that would impose a 50 percent windfall profits tax on oil company revenue derived from sales of oil at more than $40 per barrel. See Iowa Voice for that story.

Sort of reminds me of PCD’s buddy, Senator Harkin.

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