Same issue, different candidate: Rothman chastises McCain on gas tax
By Max Pizarro | June 13th, 2008 - 3:39pmThe strategy of going after Sen. Hillary Clinton on her proposal to suspend the gas tax proved useful for Sen. Barack Obama, as he weakened his Democratic Primary rival’s standing in Indiana while deriding as gimmickry her call for a gas tax suspension.
With Clinton out of the way now, Obama’s most senior original ally in New Jersey, U.S. Rep. Steve Rothman (D-9), denounced presumptive Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain's position on the gas tax, which mirrors Clinton’s.
On stage Friday at a town hall meeting in Pemberton, McCain summoned applause from the crowd for Clinton, noting how she ran a good race.
Meanwhile, in a conference call with reporters, Rothman targeted the Arizonan on what had been an important primary issue.
In the face of rising gas prices - nearing $4 per gallon in New Jersey - McCain proposed suspending the 18.4 cent federal gas tax and 24.4 cent diesel tax through Labor Day, and this week renewed his call for the relief action.
Responding to a Wednesday quote in which the Republican referred to projects funded by the gas tax as "unnecessary and unwanted," Rothman said, "Sen. McCain should explain to the people of New Jersey how the $190 million in funding for local road and bridge projects that would be lost to pay for his Washington gimmick isn't necessary, and the 6,600 good jobs created by that funding aren't wanted."
The attack by the North Jersey congressman was the back end of a two-man offensive on McCain that began yesterday when Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) targeted the Republican on illegal immigration. Menendez argued that McCain’s back track from his stance on comprehensive immigration reform to a border fence-first position epitomized flip-flopping and insulted Latinos.
Today at Burlington County Community College in Pemberton, McCain fielded a question on illegal immigration and replied that while he favors comprehensive immigration, he first wants to "secure the border."
Simultaneously, Rothman (D-9) assumed the point position, with his longstanding role in the Obama camp enabling him to criticize McCain on an issue that Rothman’s presidential candidate had already used to try to make Clinton look like a panderer.
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The repercussions and consequences of the Bush administration's foreign/economic policies have caused this instability/volatility in the markets.
The housing bubble busting and the decline of the dollar has all the "smart money" derivative types now pumping up the price of oil.
At some point, ordinary investors (i.e. suckers) will start heavily buying into this hyped up market; that's when the manipulators will "take their profits" and the inevitable bust will come.
What we really need is an energy policy.
When we were attacked in 1941 America transitioned into a war machine within a year.
There's no good reason why America can't embark on a crash program to become 100% free of middle east oil within 5 years and 100% free of imported oil within 10 years.
It would mean a radical transition in our whole economy and way of life; but it's doable.
Banning the manufacture of purely gasoline powered passenger vehicles and transitioning to plug in hybrids and 100% electrics can be done within 5 years.
We need to increase the subsidies on solar/wind/geothermal power production.
Clean coal tech (using expensive scrubbers) does exist.
Electric cars are inherently more efficient than internal combustion. It's simple physics.
We need to rebuild our railroad infrastructure to the point where long haul diesel trucking is non existent.
Mass transit needs to be made cheap, convenient and ubiquitous.
Most air travel could be replaced by teleconferencing.
Most office jobs can be done by telecommuting.
How about a 4 day work week!
Add single payer nationalized health insurance to the mix so that all these transitions can easily happen as many millions of Americans become employed in rebuilding our energy infrastructure.
(I could go on and on with dozens of ideas in this vein; but you get the picture)
So, yes, it's great that "Rothman is chastizing McCain" in re the gas tax gimmick....but we really need some radical changes in our whole approach to energy policy at all levels....and it's not about just making/saving money.
The kinds of positively radical actions described above would be great for our economy, but they would also clean up our environment, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and set a truly intelligent example for the rest of the developing world to follow.
Let the Saudis et al drink their oil.
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