It is a stupid plan with dubious immediate benefits. Now is probably a great time to work out a way to create/expand/enhance alternative energy industry. It would be a slower sort of effect but would strengthen the economic foundation of the nation in the long run. Bush's plan is the political fix. It amounts to another tax gift to Wally world and will do nothing for the nation in the long run.

I can sorta deal with Bush being an idiot, it is useless to be mad at a dog for biting or a snake for striking, that is just what they do. But Bush's advisers surely can't all be as clueless as he is, can they? Does he give them a test that they have to fail to work at the WH?

I wish this was happening in a country I didn't like so that I could at least be amused by it.

CAFKIA

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It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.
  - William G. McAdoo

"The first step was the president had to admit there was a problem, and he did so in this conversation," - Nancy Pelosi

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I like election years. We get us some economic stimulus, and maybe even a check in the mail from the government!

Bush has gone down the tax rebate road before. Back in 2001, he added refunds of up to $300 per individual and $600 per household as a recession-fighting element of the tax cut plan that had been the centerpiece of his 2000 campaign.

Economists said a reasonable range for tax cuts in the new package might be $500 to $1,000. Congressional aides said the White House plan is looking at rebates of up to $800 for individuals and $1,600 for married couples...

Compassionate conservatism rears its ugly head. I hate when Bush's Keynesian side shows.

I wish this was happening in a country I didn't like so that I could at least be amused by it.

Amen

Pam Strickland

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." ~Kurt Vonnegut

Can I get my rebate in EUROS? Also, has anyone noticed that Knoxnews.com web site has taken down the article referring to Fred Thompson being a sleeping bear on the prowl for win in S.C., maybe they are retooling and changing the phrase sleeping bear to a sleeping sharpei,

Boy, shades of pre-9/11 George W. Bush -- every time he opened his mouth, the stock market would tank. This was when "Kenny Boy" was doing his best Colonel Klink impression and about every 30th NASDAQ listing was on the front pages for fraud, misaccounting, etc.

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With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.

Just now on Hardball, Cramer is predicting a 2000 point Dow drop very soon, based on a couple of major mortgage lenders going belly up. He was serious.

Due to big oil politics we've lost approximately 30 years of R&D toward becoming energy independent.

Why do we need that that when we have "the blessed way of life"?