Remember when

[magellan]

Cheney Tax Plan From '86 Would Have Raised Gas Prices - April 6, 2004

"In October 1986, when Dick Cheney was the lone congressman from energy-rich Wyoming, he introduced legislation to create a new import tax that would have caused the price of oil, and ultimately the price of gasoline paid by drivers, to soar by billions of dollars per year."

snip...

"Renewed attention on Mr. Cheney's plan, which Democrats dusted off and talked about on the Senate floor last week, offers another wrinkle in this year's politicized debate about gas prices, which hit a record-high average of $1.76 last week for a gallon of regular. While gas prices may remain a presidential campaign issue if they do not decline, they are still well below the inflation-adjusted high of nearly $3 in March 1981.

To deflect charges that the White House has not done enough to bring down prices, the Bush campaign has attacked Senator John Kerry, the likely Democratic presidential nominee, as favoring higher gas prices. "Some people have wacky ideas like taxing gasoline more so people drive less. That's John Kerry," a recent Bush campaign commercial said. The commercial singled out Mr. Kerry's support a decade ago for a 50-cent gas tax increase, part of a deficit-reduction package that Mr. Kerry never voted for."

A 50-cent gas tax increase sure sounds good compared to what the local pump is telling you, doesn't it, Repugs? And the real irony? What Bush** claimed about Kerry and the 50-cent increase WASN'T EVEN TRUE.

Republican morans, helping Bush** to screw themselves and the country.

"Let us rid ourselves of the fiction that low oil prices are somehow good for the United States." -- Cheney, 1986

[magellan]

1. Dang things drop out of sight fast during the day!

Kick.