We’ve heard a lot about Barack Obama’s tax plan over the last few days.
None of the propaganda or talking points from the candidate, or the campaign was more telling however, than Obama’s comments directly to “Joe the Plumber” at a campaign stop in Ohio.
I’ve said a couple of times that I believe that Obama will rue the day he had that conversation. It very well may prove to be his “Mondale Moment”.
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It appears that Dick Durbin is getting the message that Americans want to drill for energy in this country and stop making our enemies rich.
“I’m open to drilling and responsible production,” Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin told The Wall Street Journal, adding that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid could also support the move.
However, Durbin said his support for opening new areas to drilling was contingent on setting requirements that oil and gas companies begin production within a specified time frame on acreage they have leased from the government.
He can see that this issue will damage him in his campaign to stay in the Senate, but he is hedging his bet. Durbin is still under the illusion that Americans hate the oil companies. It is true that the radical wing of the Democratic Party hates the oil companies, but union worker want these jobs.
Republicans need to be smart and get ahead of this issue, they need to hammer home the fact that Durbin and his global alarmist friends have prevented production of American energy. Instead we have been enriching hostile regimes by purchasing our energy from them. We did not even reduce pollution, the fossil fuels are still being extracted instead of American workers benefiting from the jobs, America’s enemies are reaping windfall profits.
Durbin is coming late to the game and if he has a competent opponent he should be scared. $4 a gallon gas has the potential to make this “bad year to be a Republican” into a bad year to be an incumbent.
Cross posted at The Hinge of Fate
Following the Obama, Clinton unity party in Unity, New Hampshire the Democratic Party is still divided. Barack and Hillary said all the right things,
“We have stood toe to toe in the hard-fought primary,” Clinton said. Now, she told the crowd, they are “shoulder to shoulder” and “our paths have merged.”
When Clinton said, “I am proud that we had a spirited dialogue,” the crowd started to chuckle. She paused and added, for an even bigger laugh, “That was the nicest way I could think of phrasing it.”
It seems that Hillary’s hard-core supporters are not buying it. One day after the Obama and Clinton had their little unity party a group of pro-Hillary vandals tagged 60 vehicles in Orlando, Florida with anti-Obama and anti-McCain messages.
This is just more evidence that Obama is having a hard time winning over another key demographic that supported Hillary; criminals. Criminals have long been a key voting block for the Democratic Party, they have fought to restore voting rights to felons and objected in 2000 when Florida removed convicts from the voting rolls. Salon.com argued that Al Gore would be President today if these felons where allowed to vote.
The question we all need to ask is, can McCain appeal to the criminal vote that was once the exclusive domain of the Clintons? Or will they eventually grit their teeth and vote for Barack?
Cross posted at The Hinge of Fate
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