[FlyVet]

Then there is the myth that Obama would cut taxes for the class, while McCain would only lavish tax cuts on rich. Bill Clinton also famously touted a middle-class tax cut, and that promise lasted until about the third week of his presidency. The Obama promise to cut taxes on the middle class is an equal farce; it utterly ignores the $1.5 trillion cap and trade energy tax--a tax that (alas) McCain has also endorsed. A study by Laffer Associates found that this would be the biggest increase in taxes on the middle class in decades, and it didn't count the 1 million jobs that would be lost. So if the economic killer cap and trade is enacted (by Obama or McCain), middle-class taxes are going way, way up, not down.

Well I'm so flustered now, my "policy", if I was King of the World, would be to yank all these Bastards out of their offices by their hair, and drag them down the stairs.

But, since I'm not King of the World, I'll just have to sit here and stew, and wish I could.

[sportutegrl]

I thought I read somewhere that McCain was rethinking the cap and trade plan.

[Dahoser]

If I were King of the World, I'd be dragging out the voters who keep these clymers in office. Sending the same crew back to Washington in the face of almost $5 gas is not going to be the politicians' fault, much as I can't stand the lot of them.

No, their continued presence in Washington falls squarely on the voters. Prime examples being Massachusetts where anti-drilling anywhere Jean Francois Kerry is heading for certain reelection and Illinois where equally anti-drilling anywhere Little Dick Durbin is also cruising to reelection.

Fuel prices in Massachusetts and Illinois as of July 13, 2008:

State	Regular	Mid	Premium	Diesel
Massachusetts	$4.087	$4.394	$4.561	$4.906
Illinois	$4.225	$4.545	$4.686	$4.839

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Source: AAA Daily Fuel Gauge Report.

Despite those prices and their stands on drilling, both Senators enjoy overwhelming reelection prospects with Kerry leading his Republican opponent 58% to 27% and Durbin leading his 61% to 27%. Seems like the people of Massachusetts and Illinois are very happy with the price of fuel and the role their senators are playing in keeping them high.

And for good measure, let's not forget that both Senators have falsely and viciously accused American troops of atrocities. Kerry with his Jengis Khan affectation in the early 70s before Congress and Durbin with his Senate floor speech in 2005 calling the troops Nazis, Soviet gulag torturers, and Pol Pot genocidists. Again, the voters in both states must like this kind of stuff.