Clinton Gas Tax

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Gas Tax Holiday A Political Gift To Obama

Reuters   |  John Whitesides   |   May 8, 2008 04:16 PM


The heated presidential campaign battle over a federal gas tax holiday turned out to be a much needed gift for Barack Obama -- and he can thank Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. The fight, which dominated the final days before the...

Clinton Camp Stoops To Language Games And Overt Race Strategizing

M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted May 7, 2008 | Off The Bus


M.S. Bellows, Jr.

In a telephone press conference Wednesday, the Clinton campaign firmly reiterated its intention to keep seeking the Democratic Presidential nomination, spinning both her striking loss in North Carolina and her slender win in Indiana yesterday as positive developments -- while also appearing to admit that she is not going to...

Our Neighbors Are Smarter Than We Thought

Trey Ellis | Posted May 7, 2008 | Politics


Trey Ellis

The encouraging lesson from Obama's huge win in North Carolina and near-win in Indiana is that perhaps the fear card no longer trumps all others. The Bush presidencies were fueled by what Jonathan Alter of Newsweek recently called, "underinformed voters," explicitly voting against their own economic interests, often for reasons...

A Desperate Hillary Promises New Crystal Meth That's "Actually Good For You"; Laughs Off "So-Called Experts" Who Disagree

John Eskow | Posted May 6, 2008 | Politics


John Eskow

Reeling from Tuesday evening's results, a desperate Hillary Clinton today promised voters an extraordinary new platform that, while making no mention of pressing political issues, includes "zero-calorie" Hershey Bars, a month's-worth of free Marlboro Reds, and--somewhat controversially, in certain quarters--a mysterious new kind of crystal methedrine, which while having all...

The Lords of Trivial Pursuit

Carl Pope | Posted May 6, 2008 |


Carl Pope

You've probably noticed that one of the most visible issues of the Clinton-Obama race recently has been the question of a "holiday" from the federal gas tax. John McCain originally supported it. Barack Obama strongly opposes it. And Hillary Clinton favors it with a windfall-profits tax to make sure that...

Clinton Surrogate Robert Menendez: Thank God We Don't Have Economist Making Public Policy

Talking Points Memo   |  David Kurtz   |   May 6, 2008 11:32 AM


Top Hillary surrogate Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) was on MSNBC this morning defending her gas tax holiday: "Thank God that we don't have economists making necessarily public policy . . ."...

More Than 230 Economists Release Letter Opposing Clinton Gas Tax Plan

Washington Post   |  Jonathan Weisman   |   May 5, 2008 09:13 PM


Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday she'll have no truck with economists telling her where to put her gas-tax holiday. Well, now she's got a truckload of them. More than 230 economists -- Democrats, Republicans, advisers to past presidents and four...

Will Hillary Repeal the Clinton Gas Tax?

Lawrence O'Donnell | Posted May 5, 2008 | Politics


Lawrence O'Donnell

Bill Clinton raised the gas tax and no one in the political press seems to remember that, including George Stephanopoulos, who helped him do it.

Most political reporters obviously have no idea that in his first year in office President Bill Clinton raised the gas tax. He did it...

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One Man's Quest To Save $100 From The 'Gas Tax Holiday'

HuffingtonPost.com   |  Jason Linkins   |   May 5, 2008 04:01 PM


Obama says I will save only $30 under the McCain/Clinton plan, but that hardly seems audacious or hopeful! So, I decided to see what I'd have to do to save a mere $100 between Memorial Day and Labor Day.
Will Thomas

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Clinton "Elite" Bashing A Shift For Campaign That Regularly Celebrates Experts

HuffingtonPost.com   |  Will Thomas   |   May 5, 2008 12:43 PM


Hillary Clinton's acknowledgment this weekend to ignore expert assessments of her gas tax suspension is a marked shift for a candidate known for her interest in policy minutiae. In fact, Clinton has complained about this kind of from-the-hip policy advocacy...
Jason Linkins

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Clinton, Obama Battle Over 'Gas Tax Holiday'

HuffingtonPost.com   |  Jason Linkins   |   May 5, 2008 12:28 PM


Both of the would-be Democratic nominees found themselves all over the morning shows today, and the small-bore issue of a "gas tax holiday" continued to loom large in the conversation, with Clinton standing in support of the policy and Obama...

Gas Tax Holiday? Who's the Real Elitist?

Jonathan Diamond | Posted May 5, 2008 | Politics


Jonathan Diamond

It was bad enough that Sen. Clinton signed on to the plain-as-day-pander to suspend the 18 cent-per-gallon federal gas tax for the summer months, but her continued allegiance to an idea that has been universally (except for her and Sen. McCain) derided offers a couple disturbing insights.

In the face...

Obama Proposes Gas-bag Holiday

Andy Borowitz | Posted May 5, 2008 | Politics


Andy Borowitz

After a week in which a chorus of television pundits talked about the Rev. Wright controversy ad nauseam, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama introduced a proposal today to silence such repetitious discussions.

"I am proposing a gas-bag holiday," Sen. Obama told a capacity crowd in Indianapolis. "Under my plan, all...

Clinton Gas Tax Holiday: Hillary Attacks Economists

The Huffington Post   |   May 4, 2008 10:05 AM


UPDATE: Former Clinton labor secretary, and now Obama supporter, Robert Reich, asks some Clinton economic advisers about her comments this morning: When asked this morning by ABC News' George Stephanopoulos if she could name a single economist who backs her...

Clinton seeks gas tax vote, Obama calls it 'shell' game

AP   |  DAVID ESPO   |   May 2, 2008


MUNSTER, Ind. — Hillary Rodham Clinton called for a vote Friday in the Democratic-controlled Congress on a summertime suspension of the federal gasoline tax, a plan that Barack Obama dismissed as a political stunt that would cost thousands of construction...

Obama Compares Clinton To Bush, McCain Over Gas Tax

The Huffington Post   |   May 2, 2008 11:23 AM


Sen. Barack Obama used his press conference this morning to go after Clinton on her recent gas tax holiday proposal. Obama claimed Clinton is borrowing phrases from President Bush, he then suggested that the only support Clinton can find for...

Obama Ad Hits Clinton Over Gas Tax

The Huffington Post   |   May 2, 2008 10:29 AM


Obama has released a new ad in Indiana criticizing Clinton for her gas tax holiday, and featuring his own energy plan: CBS News' Brian Montopoli assesses the political risks/rewards of Obama's gas tax line: Stuart Rothenberg, a nonpartisan political analyst,...

McCain, Clinton Gas Tax Plans 'May Help Oil Companies'

Bloomberg   |   May 2, 2008 09:02 AM


Bloomberg reports: Hillary Clinton and John McCain are both pushing a "gas-tax holiday" to give consumers an 18.4- cent-a-gallon price break. Clinton says the plan will take excess profits from oil companies. McCain says it will help families buy school...

Bloomberg Slams Clinton, McCain Gas Tax Plan

AP   |   May 1, 2008


NEW YORK — Mayor Michael Bloomberg called a summer-long suspension of the gas tax favored by Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton and Republican John McCain a dumb idea. The New York mayor, who flirted with the idea of an independent presidential...
Sam Stein

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Clinton Camp Defends Gas Plan: She Doesn't Need To Listen To Experts

HuffingtonPost.com   |  Sam Stein   |   May 1, 2008 01:22 PM


Aides to Sen. Hillary Clinton defended on Thursday her support for a gas-tax holiday - a proposal that has been roundly criticized by economic and energy experts and derided among pundits as political pandering. "Senator Clinton realizes there is a...
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