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 On the Backs of Oil Companies (video)
On the Backs of Oil Companies (video)
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bob Schaffer lamenting that oil companies have a lower profit margin than the insurance and banking industries, and then mak...
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Election Central Saturday Roundup
TPM Election Central — DNC Out-Raises RNC For First Time This Cycle The Democratic National Committee has announced that they raised $27.7 million for the month of July, just edging out the RNC's $26 million, the first time this whole cycle that the usually-underfunded DNC has outdone the RNC. The DNC, including its joint committee with the Obama campaign, has $28.5 million cash on hand, bringing the Democratic total with the Obama campaign to $94.3 million -- just narrowly behind the Republicans' aggregate total of over $100 million on hand. Obama Leaves Hawaii Barack Obama's Hawaiian has come to an end last night, as the candidate ...

Election Central Saturday Roundup
TPM Election Central — DNC Out-Raises RNC For First Time This Cycle The Democratic National Committee has announced that they raised $27.7 million for the month of July, just edging out the RNC's $26 million, the first time this whole cycle that the usually-underfunded DNC has outdone the RNC. The DNC, including its joint committee with the Obama campaign, has $28.5 million cash on hand, bringing the Democratic total with the Obama campaign to $94.3 million -- just narrowly behind the Republicans' aggregate total of over $100 million on hand. Obama Leaves Hawaii Barack Obama's Hawaiian has come to an end last night, as the candidate ...

Election Central Morning Roundup
TPM Election Central — DNC Out-Raises RNC For First Time This Cycle The Democratic National Committee has announced that they raised $27.7 million for the month of July, just edging out the RNC's $26 million, the first time this whole cycle that the usually-underfunded DNC has outdone the RNC. The DNC, including its joint committee with the Obama campaign, has $28.5 million cash on hand, bringing the Democratic total with the Obama campaign to $94.3 million -- just narrowly behind the Republicans' aggregate total of over $100 million on hand. Obama Leaves Hawaii Barack Obama's Hawaiian has come to an end last night, as the candidate ...

Election Central Morning Roundup
TPM Election Central — DNC Out-Raises RNC For First Time This Cycle The Democratic National Committee has announced that they raised $27.7 million for the month of July, just edging out the RNC's $26 million, the first time this whole cycle that the usually-underfunded DNC has outdone the RNC. The DNC, including its joint committee with the Obama campaign, has $28.5 million cash on hand, bringing the Democratic total with the Obama campaign to $94.3 million -- just narrowly behind the Republicans' aggregate total of over $100 million on hand. Obama Leaves Hawaii Barack Obama's Hawaiian has come to an end last night, as the candidate ...

CO-Sen: Government Getting Rich Off of Oil Companies, Sez Schaffer
Daily Kos — This is the kind of things Republicans only say when they think they're not being recorded. "But because prices are soaring, the reality is the federal government is raking in a bunch of cash right now on the backs of energy producers." Those poor, poor energy producers. With all the money we're raking in from them, maybe the energy companies can just pay for that whole war in Iraq. Wasn't that how it was supposed to work, anyway? ...

CO-Sen: Government Getting Rich Off of Oil Companies, Sez Schaffer
Daily Kos — This is the kind of things Republicans only say when they think they're not being recorded. "But because prices are soaring, the reality is the federal government is raking in a bunch of cash right now on the backs of energy producers." Those poor, poor energy producers. With all the money we're raking in from them, maybe the energy companies can just pay for that whole war in Iraq. Wasn't that how it was supposed to work, anyway? ...

House and Senate Race Roundup: Big Oil Edition
Daily Kos — CO-Sen: Bob Schaffer, Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, apparently thinks we ought to pity the poor oil companies, as the federal government is raking in the cash off of their hard labor. Pity Big Oil? You couldn't make this stuff up. MS-Sen: The DSCC has released a new ad against interim Senator Roger Wicker ("interim" Senator is their term, and I rather like it), also related to gas prices. Meanwhile, Tim Kalich of the Greenwood Commonwealth suggests that Republicans are ...

CO-Sen: Timeline of a Failed Candidacy
Swing State Project — With the news that the NRSC is pulling out of Colorado, a reader of SSP -- who clearly gets what we're about -- sends in the following detailed timeline of Bob Schaffer's epic collapse. January 15, 2007: Wayne Allard announces his retirement, opening up the Colorado Senate seat. Former Congressman Scott McInnis "all but ...

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