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May 06, 2008
Show Me the Legislation!
I keep out of the primary fights for the most part. At this point I could not be more of a Yellow Dog Democrat — I'll vote for anyone to get the Republicans out of power, to keep them from further trashing this country.
But I have to say one thing about this gas tax kerfluffle. Both Clinton and McCain are currently Senators, and for all that they are going on about a summer gas tax holiday, neither of them has actually introduced any legislation to that effect. And as long as they don't introduce legislation, actual words on paper entered into the record that we can look at and analyze, then it's all hot air and pandering.
Now I don't think such a bill has any chance of being passed, but if these two are serious then they ought to have some legislation in process, at least to try and pass it. The fact that neither one has bothered gives the lie to all their talk.
UPDATE: Here it is. John Cole found it. No text available yet, but at least she's put it up.
UPDATE: And here is MCCain's version. Both are currently in the Senate Finance committee.
Posted by jnfr at May 6, 2008 08:54 AM