The Superdelegates Are Paying Close Attenton to Hillary's Gas Tax Pander

[rhombus]

The "You are with us or against us" line isn't going to sit well with many of her colleagues in Congress.

If this is any indication of how the Hillary Clinton administration is going to govern, then it means another 4-8 years of bamboozling like Bush.:grr:

[MannyGoldstein]

1. She's Probably Trying To Destroy The Party

Why, I wonder?

[cliffordu]

24. When the fuck is she just going to finally commit to McCain and get it over with??

:banghead:

[caligirl]

28. their drinking buddies.

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

29. Super Delegate Rep. Mark Udall in Colorado angry reaction to McClinton proposal

And Udall is a super delegate

"Senator Clinton claimed yesterday that I either stand with her on this proposal or stand with the oil companies. To that I say: I stand with the families of Colorado, who aren't looking for bumper sticker fixes that don't fix anything, but for meaningful change that brings real relief and a new direction for our energy policy. We can't afford more Washington-style pandering while families keep getting squeezed.

"It is exactly the kind of short-sighted Washington game that keeps us from getting real results to our energy problem."
http://www.markudall.com/content/page/udall_answers_clinton_gas_tax_challenge_stands_with_coloradans_for_meaningf

I guess she's throwing them under the bus.

[pompano]

31. Well,

Obama's best friend is her attitude towards the Party as a whole.

Let her rave. Time will show the Queens madness, indeed.

[LakeSamish706]

2. "another 4-8 years of bamboozling like Bush." I don't have much doubt about...

what we would be in for with a Hillary Presidency.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

3. you mean saving a half a tank of gas

surely her colleagues should be taking on the big oil companies?

[rhombus]

6. Hillary supporter, Rep. Barney Frank calls this a bad idea

as do many of Clinton's own superdelegates in Congress.

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/05/02/leading-democrats-side-with-obama-in-gas-tax-dispute/

[Cha]

18. HaHa.

hilary "doesn't need the Experts" 'cause they're not pandering to the NOrth Carolina-Indiana voter.

[Bensthename]

4. Hillary = talks like Bush, votes like McCain.,,

I'm glad I did not for for McCain/Hillary

[4themind]

5. Very short sighted IMO

or perhaps using the herculean strong arm tactics, putting their jobs at risk if they don't do what she says. But even if they vote for it, hasn't she stopped to think that it won't necessarily mean that they'd HAVE to vote for her as superdelegates, and the arm twisting may very well turn them away.

[Exilednight]

7. I really want a link to that Hillary quote. I want to plaster it all over the internet. any help?

[K Gardner]

9. Here you go...

May 1, 2008
Clinton to Congress: You’re either with us or against us
Posted: 06:30 PM ET
JEFFERSONVILLE, Indiana (CNN) – After several days of back and forth between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama over whether a summer-long elimination of the gas tax would help or hurt, Clinton took a hard line, asking her colleagues in Congress to take sides.

“I believe it would be important to get every member of Congress on record,” Clinton told supporters at a rally in southern Indiana. “Do they stand with the hard-pressed Americans who are trying to pay their gas bills at the gas station or do they once again stand with the oil companies?

“I want to know where people stand and I want them to tell us, are they with us or against us when it comes to taking on the oil companies?” she added.

The “with us or against us” line wasn’t the only George W. Bush reference Thursday evening. Telling a story about Republicans crossing party lines and whispering their support to her, Clinton said, “It’s kind of like a little bit of a confessional when somebody comes and says, ‘You know I voted for George Bush, and I’m really sorry.’”

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/05/01/clinton-to-congress-you%E2%80%99re-either-with-us-or-against-us/

[Exilednight]

11. Thank you! n/t

[Cha]

21. Slick hilly...reminds me of the time she

told Obama to meet her Ohio and they'd talk about his behavior in this campaign.

It's funny with hilary 'cause there's a word I cannot use to describe on DU but I'm wondering how many SuperDees are thinking the same and sayin' "no way is she gettin' near that throne.



And the time she squatted up on stage in that red dress waving flyers in her hand ..raging at Obama..and then there was the time she mocked Obama supporters with "choir and angels out of the sky" schtick. How's that workin' out for ya, hilary?

[Muttocracy]

10. The video is over in the Political Videos forum - watched it a few hours ago. nt

[Exilednight]

12. Thank you n/t

[rwheeler31]

8. The Clinton's really do think we are stupid. The are only helping

Republicans.

[Armstead]

13. The image of her leading a revolt of The People against Democrats......

against Big Oil is sort of laughable.

The Supreme Washington Insider fighting all those minor league insiders....

[Danger Mouse]

14. 'With us or against us'?? WTF?

[Armstead]

15. Don't ask....It's too surreal to contemplate

[Danger Mouse]

16. Does she honestly think anyone is going to fall for that BS...

or that the superdelegates will respond kindly to her attempted strong-arm?

[Armstead]

23. Yes she does

Kinda sad isn't it?

[Major Hogwash]

17. Bubba + Hillary + Dubai + Oil companies = corruption. Put that in your holiday gas tax plan!

Do a google search for Bubba + Dubai + Hillary + Oil companies and see what you get!!!

She's the number 1 recipient of lobbyist money!!

The oil companies just love Bubba and Hillary.

[milkyway]

19. Joe Andrew cited the gas tax issue as one of the reasons he switched to Obama.

[splat]

20. 'No, we won't help you because it's bad theory' is a losing reason for doing nothing

It's a small, symbolic gesture of empathy that doesn't meet the theorists' standards. So Congress does nothing about our pinched budgets.

Why aren't the so-called "experts" coming up with ways to help us that are acceptable to them?

Because they're not feeling squeezed yet? How lovely for them.

[Cha]

25. So you like the pandering tyrant...

BFD. Yeah, and that stupid story she tells about bush signing away Indiana jobs when it was her fucking husband the whole time.

[cali]

32. it will not help.

economists know it. they've said it. conservationists know it. and the FACT that she's pulling the with ME or against me crap is just too ironic for words. Lovely bush imitation, hilly.

[PoliticalAmazon]

22. Yeah, SDs are watching, and seeing Bush Jr in drag. n/t

[Barack_America]

26. The stupidest thing about that gas tax "holiday" is that it would end...

two months before the general election. Just enough time for people to realize that it didn't do shit for them and take it out on the candidates.

They have to realize this, just further proof that this is primary pander bullshit.

[Andy823]

27. IT's all a crock

And anyone with any sense knows it. What everyone seems to be missing is that even if she got a windfall tax passed along with a gas holiday, there is no way in hell Bush would NOT veto a bill that taxes the oil companies, no way, no who! Clinton knows it and so do the SD's. It's just another cheap trick get votes.

[donheld]

30. Please delete the last two words in your OP heading

:D