MoveOn.org hits McCain locally Wednesday
MoveOn.org, which has repeatedly attacked Sen. John McCainregarding his oil and environmental policy, will host a rally this week at the Shell Station at the corner of Delmar and Skinker in the Loop.
The protest is set for 5 p.m. Wednesday and is to coincide with some 200 others around the country.
A release hints at the major criticisms that will likely be aired at the protest; MoveOn says McCain basically in the pocket of major oil companies. The event is being billed as a rally for an “Oil-Free President.”
This does highlight a major difference between McCain and Sen. Barack Obama that will likely get plenty of airtime during the campaign.
McCain says he wants to expand drilling and increase domestic oil production, using royalties from drilling to fund alternative energy for the long-term.
Obama says he wants a wind-fall profits tax on oil companies coupled with a tax credit to middle class families, while using some revenues for long-term weaning from oil.
So moveon.org, the nation’s largest 527 group, is mobilizing for Obama four months before the election. But Obama claims he bailed out of the public financing system because of independent Republican attack groups. Looks like the only independent attack groups out there right now are working for Obama. Which makes Obama’s statement a lie.
McCain says that the way to lower energy costs is to develop additional resources. Obama says that the way to lower energy costs is to impose a tax. Is he crazy, stupid, or just pandering to the left flank of his party to make up for betraying them on Iraq?
Het Witless Nick! What part of “…while using some revenues for a long term weaning from oil” don’t you get???
As for you lying fearmongering Iraqi warbats, as for Bush/McCain, why haven’t you yappers ever even tried to defend Bush/McCain’s illegal taking/not taking of public funds? Too afraid of the Nixonian comparisons, eh? Geez, a campaign finance criminal before he ever takes office, that’s a new world record for a Republican!
Nick, you are woefully uninformed. Moveon closed its 527 earlier this year; http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/06/moveon_to_close_its_527.php . In fact, in deciding to close the 527, moveon explicitly said that they agree with Obama’s philosophy. Here’s a quote from the cited article: “This is an affirmation that we, like Senator Obama, believe that this election can be won by ordinary Americans giving small donations,”
Piggybacking off of Adam S, I don’t believe MoveOn even used the 527 since 2004. And it’s also worth noting that of the whopping $122 million MoveOn has raised in its existence, only 10% has come from large donors. It’s a member-driven organization funded by regular people.
You’ve encapsulated the positions nicely. One candidate promotes a policy which will increase the supply and reduce the retail price while providing the necessary incentives for investment into newer technologies. (Not to mention maintain record levels of federal tax revenue and investor dividends.) The other candidate promotes a policy which restricts supply in an attempt to regulate demand, and always leads to higher prices for consumers. He also wants to impose punitive levies which squash any incentive for investment and raise retail prices even further as the taxes are passed on to the consumer.
Anyone remember last July 4, when the Democrats in congress proclaimed “Energy Independence Day”? Since then, the retail price of gasoline has gone up about 60%. The oil companies still can’t drill in new areas or exploit the leases they’ve already bought and paid for, so the supply crisis has gotten much worse. Despite all of the money Democrats sunk into federal mandates and renewables, they haven’t come up with a single new source of energy. Instead of energy independence, we are now so strapped for domestic supply that we’ve had to beg the Saudis to pump more of their oil for us. On top of the inflationary pressure from rising fuel prices, ethanol mandates have distorted global food markets, creating shortages and starvation.
Obama would give us four more years of these same failed policies of demonizing energy producers, useless subsidies, and a senseless moratorium on energy production. Every voter who pumps gas should know that it’s the Democrats who have failed on energy policy, and that four years more of it would be an economic disaster. Everyone driving by that Shell station needs to tell the idiots from MoveOn exactly where they can go.
Go Fish has a good cogent analysis of supply / demand forces at work and how our colleages the dems are missing the boat entirely. I am always amazed when they repeat the mantra—’ we cannot drill our way out of an oil crisis’. Yet, that is the only way we have done it before, in the 1970’s and initially, in the 1900’s when oil was first discovered the only way to get it out of the ground and into the newly invented internal combustion machine was to drill it out of the ground.
As for me, I would rather drill in the sand than put my head in the sand.