Latest Bush Lies: Kerry's Votes on Gas Taxes

[JPZenger]

From the Annenberg Center's Fact Check website:

http://www.factcheck.org/article.aspx?docID=165

The Bush campaign is running ads saying that John Kerry supported higher gas taxes, including a 50 cent increase. Here's the Annenberg Center's response:

"By saying that Kerry "supported higher gasoline taxes 11 times" this ad could give you the idea that Kerry voted for 11 different tax increases, which isn't true. Actually, a close look at the Bush campaign's own count shows that nine of the eleven were about a single increase.

Five of those votes came in the manuevering that led to a single 4.3-cent-per-gallon increase in 1993, as part of President Clinton's economic package. Four more votes for "higher" taxes were actually cast against Republican attempts to repeal that same 4.3-cent increase in 1996, 1998 and 2000. (On one of those votes most Republicans voted against repeal, too.)

The Bush campaign also counts a vote in 2000 against a proposal to suspend the federal gasoline tax entirely for six months -- which left gasoline taxes unchanged, not "higher."

The 11th instance cited by the Bush campaign wasn't a vote at all -- just that Kerry quote from 1994 that he'd once supported a 50-cent increase."

[ewagner]

1. I seem to recall

somebody saying something like Lying Liars....

[papau]

5. Could we revisit W's relationship to "callboys" in the Bush41 Whitehouse?

[underpants]

7. That is hilarious

and classic.

[Catfight]

2. Again-why doesn't Kerry come back on the 100k Hummer tax break?

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/0101hummer01.html


Kerry seems adamant about allowing his character to be defined, it's getting old fast! Punch back, this blows Bush out of the gas debate so fast: again, 100k tax break on gas, or .50? You decide which really hurts the tax payer.

[ochazuke]

3. No reply from Kerry

Here in Kansas City, I've seen only the bushads mocking Kerry as a keystone cop.

Kerry's ads are few and far between, and (the one I've seen) late at night.

Third party groups are still hitting bush on the economy, however.

[JPZenger]

4. Bush Outspending Kerry on Ads

I saw some numbers on the washingtonpost.com today about Bush having outspent Kerry by about 3 to 1 so far on TV ads.

That may be OK - Bush's campaign has been hemorroging cash for many months, spending at an incredible rate. Meanwhile, Kerry has been building up his cash reserves at a respectable rate.

Also, for the last couple weeks, the free media has been providing the attacks on Bush. Kerry can save his cash until the free media coverage has died down, and brand new issues need to be raised.

[Catfight]

6. I disagree with this strategy

You never get a second chance to make a first impression, and Kerry is making a poor first impression on many voters who are not familiar with him. These same voters are persuaded so easily by misleading commercials and just plain lies. Bush's credibility is on shaking ground, and with more news that the White House continues to stonewall 911, Kerry could be pounding away how he'll restore integrity to the White House, how his administration won't keep the door closed on the truth, how he will explore all avenues before he sends one life to defend our country because life is precious and it's a lot to ask, and so on and so on.
It's time to define Bush for who he really is, a puppet man behind Cheney, and if is really a strong man and leader, then why can't he speak without Cheney and why does he put a women on the chopping block? I'm tired of the half truths and lies in regards to this administration. I'm tired of their Hollywood spin on everything, it's time for seriousness and there's just nothing funny about Iraq, gas, and the economy. Kerry needs to stand up and be heard.