nytimes.com - 12/28/2008
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How many times do we have to see this play before we admit that it always ends the same way? Which play? The one where gasoline prices go up, pressure rises for more fuel-efficient cars, then gasoline prices fall and the pressure for low-mileage vehicles vanishes, consumers stop buying those ...
wewintheylose.com - 12/27/2008
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wewintheylose.com —
To: Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House Harry
Reid, U.S. Senate Democrat Leader Congress has passed and...
President Bush has vetoed H.R. 1591, the Iraq Surrender Act of 2007. This legislation, which you worked to pass, sets a timetable for surrender. ...
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Daily Kos —
... Tom Friedman: Gas guzzlers are killing us. Why do people buy them? The only one that benefits is Saudi Arabia. So suck it up and impose a gas tax. Do it, Obama, while you have the capital to spend. ...
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The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely —
... Spouting Thomas wants a gas tax. There is a reason why input taxes on rent don't work. Every time elites call for a gas tax, it is because they are admitting what a useless bunch of blood suckers they are. Then, like a flash the idiotic idea appears to them! "Make the Poor Pay!" And they go out chanting this as the solution to all the world's problems. "Make the poor pay!" The reality is that gasoline is cheap right now, and that is virtually the only thing holding many families up. Friedman's "ideas" for dealing with the blow hammer people who are just holding on in the cash ...
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... the real colonialists, the real imperialists of our age"), Jacques Chirac ("France, it seems, would rather be more important in a world of chaos than less important in a world of order"), and American energy independence ("This is not just a win-win, this is a win-win-win-win-win"). His quips became Friedman's headlines, from "Brussels Sprouts" to "Club NATO" to "Gulf of Tonkin II." Thomas L. Friedman, on Dec. 27: A gasoline tax "is not just win-win; it's win, win, win, ...
Raymond J. Learsy: The New York Times Wrong-Headedly Propagandizes for an Obama Gasoline Tax
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... ," and Friedman's Op-ed the next day, "Win, Win, Win, Win, Win." In putting forth an economically regressive program, the nabobs of the New York Times, who in most cases care little about paying three or four dollars more for a gallon of gasoline for their cars, vest themselves firmly in their well earned mantle of elitist shakers and movers. Of course all the good reasons are listed, calling for the urgent diminution of gasoline consumption for economic, environmental, and geopolitical concerns, even to the extent of Friedman cautioning President-elect Obama, ...
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