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Adenoid_Hynkel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 06:22 PM
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when is Bush going to 'jawbone OPEC" for lower prices
like he said he would in the 2000 campaign. will he get that done before he 'changes the tone,' "unites and not divides," ends the process of nation building, and fully funds our veterans?
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TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 06:25 PM
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1. the biblical "jawbone of an ass" n/t
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ThomWV Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 06:26 PM
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2. I Was Remembering His Words Just Thisafternoon
As I went past a $2.65 Regular sign this afternoon. $2.89 for high test and you can bet Bush's ass that it will top three bucks by next week.
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rzemanfl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 06:27 PM
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3. He's on vacation- busy bike riding and calling up golf pros. n/t
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Gay Green Donating Member (485 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 06:27 PM
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4. Somehow I think * has a different way to jawbone in mind
On the cover of House of Bush House of Saud, Prince Abdullah has this "You're my bitch, punk" look on his face. :mad:
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nytemare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 06:27 PM
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5. He also said federal gas tax should be eliminated
He blamed the gas tax for high prices back in 99, when gas was 1.60.

Now, the new highway pork-o-rama bill was funded by the gas tax.

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yankeedem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 06:35 PM
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8. Some savvy headline grabbing Dem
ought to call for a temporary repeal of the gas tax to shame the Republicans.
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nytemare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 06:37 PM
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9. It would have to be a dem that didn't sign off on the highway bill
I think the majority did. :(
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izzie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 06:29 PM
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6. Thank God some one said that. I thought I had got really old and
I had dreamed it up.
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ThoughtCriminal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 06:33 PM
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7. His words
Bush said today that he would bring down gasoline prices by creating enough political good will with oil-producing nations that they would increase their supply of crude. “I would work with our friends in OPEC to convince them to open up the spigot, to increase the supply. Use the capital that my administration will earn, with the Kuwaitis or the Saudis, and convince them to open up the spigot.”

http://www.issues2000.org/2004/More_George_W__Bush_Energy_+_Oil.htm
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