this seems to be the obama strategy- intentionally conflate mccain's and hillary's plan, and falsely claim that hillary's plan will reduce finding for highway construction and therefore cost jobs. if fact, hillary's plan is to replace consumer payments through gas taxes into the highway trust fund with windfall profits tax from the oil companies, so all that money for highway construction and jobs will still be there.
this must be a talking point/bamboozlement attempt coming straight from the obama campaign, because so many campaign operatives who have previously shown that they know better are saying it. lying to the voters... oh well, desperate times call for desperate measures.
Number 1: A windfall tax will not be signed into law this summer. Thus if there is a tax holiday it will can't be funded by that.
Number 2: Clinton already proposed a windfall tax to be used for other purposes, i.e., research in new technologies. Thus she is using the same money twice.
Number 3: There is no way to mandate that the .18 per gallon in federal tax would be passed along to consumers. Most experts think it will not be, so all it would do is to increase oil company profits.
... 'Hey, you're right.' rather than slink away without a response.
in an election season. It doesn't save people more than an oil change: about $30 and that's before we factor in the expected rise in gas prices due to increased demand resulting from a false sense of savings that the suspension is likely to give.
Hillary is about to trap herself.
Hillary's bill will be vetoed, then McCain bill will come to the floor, forcing Hillary to take a vote.
Will she vote for the so-called holiday for working class, giving McCain a victory, or will she vote against it, allowing the repugs to unfairly peg her as a "flip flopper?"
Damned if you do, damned if you don't
You really messed this one up, Hillary.
Hillary and McCain have been hyping the importance of working class, Reagan Democrats.
They've been hyping how beneficial the tax cut will be to consumer's pocketbooks.
low information voters don't care that the tax break would be unfunded. Reagan and Dubya proved low information voters don't care about unfunded tax breaks.
Then the thugs will lie (which is what the do best), that Hillary was for it before she was against.
This will sour her appeal with low information, Reagan Democrats - that she voted against the tax break. the won't go into the weeds and look for the details - they're struggling.
Annie Oakley just shot herself in the foot.
You'd think she'd have better aim, her being a duck hunter and all.
