Lott: "When my own daughter harasses me, you know you're in trouble."

[dajoki]

WP
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12603847/

GOP looks for Plan B on gas prices
$100 rebate idea is a non-starter, Republican lawmakers say

By Shailagh Murray and Jim VandeHei

Updated: 12:58 a.m. ET May 3, 2006

Some Republicans thought they were being clever indeed with their plan to respond to soaring gasoline prices by giving most drivers a $100 rebate. At a news conference last week to unveil the idea, Sen. James M. Talent (R-Mo.) declared, "It will show people that Washington gets it."

Many voters, however, concluded that Washington does not get it. Besieged with complaints about political pandering, GOP lawmakers now say the rebate idea is a non-starter. As Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) explained yesterday, "When my own daughter harasses me, you know you're in trouble."

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The response so far has been profiles in panic. Some conservatives dropped their philosophical opposition to tax hikes and business regulations and began complaining loudly about oil companies and the auto industry.

President Bush last week announced that he wanted the authority to raise fuel economy standards on automobiles. One aide acknowledged the idea was devised on the fly, with almost no planning or discussion among relevant agencies. This became obvious within hours when White House officials cautioned that Bush had no immediate plan to use the authority even if he had it.

A few days earlier, Bush backed diverting crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, an idea he dismissed less than two years earlier as a political stunt.

Republican lawmakers likewise have responded with a mishmash of solutions -- some barely vetted, others with little chance of becoming law.

[More Than A Feeling]

1. Its the Plan for Action Now In Congress

P.A.N.I.C., for short.

[dajoki]

2. Very clever!!

[Mind_your_head]

3. Flying by the "seat of their pants" planning

'They' were surprised that 'regular people' aren't governed by the same GREEDY DIRTY principals that they live and *prosper* by.

"Pigs at the trough" don't understand 'regular people' (those with principles, character, and generally 'love of others)! *Sirprise* *Sirprise* <---------- in my best 'Gomer Pyle' accent

[mr.alleycat]

4. Hey it worked for Dubya

"Some Republicans thought they were being clever indeed with their plan to respond to soaring gasoline prices by giving most drivers a $100 rebate."

Back in the summer of 01, Dubya paid off Joe sixpack with 3 or 6 hundred dollars of...well...sixpacks ;)

[Mind_your_head]

5. Welcome to DU mr.alleycat

:hi:

[mr.alleycat]

7. Thank you Mind

Seems we both know when to duck;)

[dajoki]

8. if you didn't make...

enough money you got shit. My daughter was going to school and working(paying taxes). She got a letter saying " you are not a real taxpayer". Still trying to figure that one out.

[Mr_Spock]

6. Haha - stupid Republicans

They shouldn't be allowed to breed anyway.