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RUSH: Senator McCain and a number of others suggested a gas tax holiday this summer, a federal gas tax holiday. However, it ain\u2019t going to happen and instead something else is in the works. ‘Lawmakers are quietly talking about raising fuel taxes by ten cents,\u2019 by a dime, ‘from the current 18.4 cents a gallon on gasoline and 24.3 cents on diesel.\u2019 The new tax would be 28.4 cents on a gallon of gas, and 34.3 cents on a gallon of diesel. Now, this is profound to me. Once again, Senator McCain has a campaign issue drop right in his lap. While Obama is across the ocean on what is nothing more than a summer camp trip, or the equivalent of going off and visiting some colleges with the parents hovering around, helicopter parents, and the Drive-By Media are the parents, ‘Oh, look at Barry! Look at who Barry met today! He\u2019s going to set him straight. Barry is going to set Maliki straight; Barry is going to set Karzai straight. In fact, when Barry gets through they\u2019re going to ask him to teach at their country!\u2019<\/p>\n

It\u2019s just sickening. All the while, what remains the big issue? The big issue in people\u2019s minds is $4-and-rising a gallon gasoline. And now when people figure out that members of Congress are planning on tacking on an additional dime federal tax to a gallon of gasoline, Senator McCain should fly out to an oil rig ASAP; point out how environmentally safe they are. Go fly to ANWR. Go to a nuclear power plant; brag on the technology. Go to the newest clean-burning coal plant in the country, brag about that. I think that Senator McCain, with the backing of Republicans, ought to start talking down the price of oil. Draft legislation, give some speeches, make sure they have photo-ops every day that Obama is on this European vacation that demonstrates where our priorities should be. <\/p>\n

They should be here, and they should be about energy: taking care of business here at home, because the commander-in-chief and General Petraeus and hundreds of thousands of American heroes in the military are already taking care of business overseas! We don\u2019t need Obama over there. Obama is not making anybody any safer. If anything, Obama is going to make our position more precarious if he wins. It\u2019s a golden opportunity here. Golden, golden, golden! Senator McCain needs to lead a surge in energy jobs for the express purpose of getting energy costs back to where they can be. Talk about security? This is economic security. Our way of life is under attack by Muslim extremists and environmental extremists, and we need a surge here on both fronts. One\u2019s already begun and it\u2019s working in Iraq. Bush started another, and it proved that oil prices are not immune from market forces. The surge in Iraq was based on simple logic. A surge in oil supplies here at home is simply logic. There\u2019s a way to do it. There\u2019s a golden opportunity here, Senator McCain. It\u2019s something that really you need to look at. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: By the way, folks, one thing about taxes, neither Obama nor the Democrats are going to cut anybody\u2019s taxes. If you\u2019re in the lower 50%, everybody\u2019s taxes are going up, and I don\u2019t care what kind you\u2019re talking about, payroll, Social Security, income, everything is going up. He\u2019s not going to cut anybody\u2019s taxes. He may give you people in the lower realms a couple more government programs. He\u2019s not going to cut your taxes. He\u2019s going to do everything he can to blow up the size of this government. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: This is John in Indianapolis. Welcome, sir, to the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. It\u2019s good to talk to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I think John McCain has to make a passionate case, if he can, that the original Iraqi invasion was the right thing to do, and that is the only way he can win this debate about Iraq because it seems no matter what position Obama takes, the press is going to deem him the winner of that debate even though he was against the surge which allows him to go there safely. Unfortunately, I think the Republicans have allowed the debate on the rightness or wrongness of the original invasion to be decided on the basis of the absence of WMD, and that\u2019s a terrible, terrible mistake.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, you trace that back to the administration.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know the administration, the president\u2019s the leader of the Republican Party, and everybody else is going to follow his lead on that. He\u2019s chosen not to remind people of all the reasons we went to war. He made great setup speeches before we went in explaining all the reasons in addition to WMD, why we went in.<\/p>\n

CALLER: He\u2019s forgotten that communication is a big part of the presidency and that\u2019s what was so great about Ronald Reagan — and regardless what you think about Bill Clinton, he was able to mesmerize people from a communication standpoint.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It was all communication. It was all buzz. It was all spin. You know, the substance of the Clinton administration could not be measured.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But I think what McCain has to do is go back to all the reasons, all the reasons we went into Iraq and then say we didn\u2019t find huge caches of WMD, but Saddam did not destroy the WMD. He hid them.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me tell you something. I have looked at polling data. I don\u2019t find Iraq in the top five of anybody\u2019s interests right now. What McCain needs to do… I\u2019ll tell you what he can do. While he\u2019s visiting the oil rig with a camera crew and explaining how important the oil rig is how he wants more oil rigs and while he\u2019s at the nuclear power plant, he can at the same time explain why the original invasion of Iraq was a good thing. But to let Obama and the Drive-Bys define the news cycle here is a mistake. There\u2019s one thing that matters above all else. Remember that little letter from Tammy May to a newspaper in Pennsylvania, her number-one priority was houses, number four was food, but gasoline was in there. Gasoline prices, I\u2019m telling you, matter far more to people right now than Iraq. Iraq is old news. We\u2019re winning. It\u2019s not a big deal. The Drive-Bys haven\u2019t been reporting all the car bombings and the suicide bombings since there haven\u2019t been any. There hasn\u2019t been any news about Iraq, actually, on TV, not much because it\u2019s been good news. So, you know, Obama got sucked into this trip, by the way, with McCain challenging him to go. So McCain needs to head to the nearest oil rig and say, ‘I sucked him in. I got him out of the country. I\u2019m glad he\u2019s over there! He\u2019ll see the truth, but he won\u2019t tell you about it like I will. In the meantime, we need more of these rigs, see?\u2019 I\u2019ve got this written. I can handle this in five minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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