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McCain camp amps up tire gauge gag
              McCain aides are distributing them to the campaign's travelling press corps and back at the HQ they're offering Obama tire gauges in exchange for donors who send in $25. "John McCain says we need offshore oil drilling and we need it now," says campaign manager Rick Davis in an email to supporters.  ...
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Gauging Your Tires
Classical Values — Gauging Your Tires It appears that Republicans do agree that gauging your tires is a good thing. They are selling (at a hefty profit I might add) and giving away custom engraved tire gauges. Obama's Energy Plan Politico has the story . McCain aides are distributing them to the campaign's travelling press corps and back at the HQ they're offering Obama tire gauges in exchange for donors who send in $25. "John McCain says we need offshore oil drilling and we need it now," says campaign manager Rick Davis in an email to supporters. "Senator Barack Obama has consistently opposed ...

Schwarzenegger is boldly pro-tire-gauge
Top of the Ticket — SACRAMENTO -- Barack Obama took plenty of ridicule from John McCain's campaign earlier this month for suggesting that motorists inflate their tires properly to get better mileage in the face of skyrocketing gas prices. McCain’s aides handed out tire pressure gauges, mockingly labeled as Obama’s energy policy. But guess what advice emanated today from California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger -- a McCain ally and fellow Republican -- in launching a campaign to help Americans ...

Things To Do With the Price of Cindy McCain's Outfit
MoJo Blog Posts: mojo — ... - Pay the tuition of 59 Arizona State University students. - Fly a Learjet 60XR for two and a half days at the price of $4,800 an hour (it's the only way to get around Arizona, you know). - Provide 6,000 students with school desks taken away by a schoolteacher that Mike Huckabee knows. - Give tire gauges to 75,949 Americans hit hard by the price of gas, so they can get better mileage in their cars. Or so you can mock Barack Obama. - Send nine community organizers and one part-timer into the ...

The Next Nexter Right
Balloon Juice — ... and b) having three moderates in the Senate approve of the bill as long as it offered a little less than what Democrats proposed. The idea that Republicans, mostly in the House, had an actual full-scale alternative, was lost. “On the Sunday talk shows, right after it passed, find me one person who mentioned the Republican alternative,” the strategist said. Look, big points for finally starting to figure this out after spending millions of dollars on tire gauges and fake press credentials and celebrity ads and “Drill, ...

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