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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Feb 23, 2010, at 5:23 PM, Marie McHarry wrote:

>  Were
> I Dictator in Chief, I'd put a $1 tax on gasoline and raise it every
> year till it got up to, say $10, and dedicate the proceeds to
> improving the conventional and alternate energy that's available.
> 
> It would take a dictator, though, to bring that off. Half the
> CongressCritters would want to give new tax breaks, half would want to
> fight a new war, and half would find some new program to fund. Yeah, I
> know that there aren't three halves in a whole, but this is my
> fantasy, dammit.

We have found the enemy and it lives in the DC Whorehouse, a place where the 
denizens care only about their personal power and continued enrichment.

David Brooks has the political pandemic nailed in today's column:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/23/opinion/23brooks.html

Always vote against the incumbent.

Gene GeRue
www.Ruralize.com