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RUSH: Listen to former Labor Secretary Robert B. Reich-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h, who was on DNCTV yesterday. He was on with Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington, and she said, ‘Do you really think that either of these energy plans, Obama\u2019s or McCain\u2019s, will do anything in the short term to fix America\u2019s reliance on foreign oil?\u2019<\/p>\n

REICH: In the short term the only thing we can do with regard to our reliance on foreign oil, Andrea, is help American consumers who are getting clobbered with four dollar a gallon prices. I mean, what Obama is saying is you gotta tap the energy companies\u2019 gigantic profits — ExxonMobil got $12 billion in the first quarter; we\u2019ve never seen profits like this — and return it to consumers in the form of rebates.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) There\u2019s a word for this, Andrea, it\u2019s called socialism. Pure, unadulterated socialism. Secretary Reich, the federal government gets half of those profits. It\u2019s called taxes. Man, I\u2019ll tell you, this is just mind-boggling, and it gets worse. Last night, Fox News Channel\u2019s Your World With Neil Cavuto, he spoke with Frank Pallone, a Democrat member of Congress from New Jersey, about Obama\u2019s windfall profits tax. Cavuto said to him, ‘Are you for or against Obama\u2019s windfall profits tax plan? I mean, that is, in other words, to take some of the profits from the oil companies and use it to fund other things?\u2019<\/p>\n

PALLONE: Absolutely.<\/p>\n

CAVUTO: A rebate for Americans.<\/p>\n

PALLONE: And they should be used for renewables. I think that\u2019s a very good idea, and again we\u2019ve — we\u2019ve had that on the floor, and the Republicans opposed it.<\/p>\n

CAVUTO: Well, maybe they opposed it because it was a stupid idea, right? I mean is it possible —<\/p>\n

PALLONE: No, it\u2019s a good idea because it means that you can take that money for renewables.<\/p>\n

CAVUTO: All right, now how long have you been in Congress?<\/p>\n

PALLONE: Twenty years.<\/p>\n

CAVUTO: All right, so you just missed the wonderful Carter experience with the windfall profits tax, right?<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is unbelievable. Take the profits from Big Oil and use them for renewables. They just throw these words out, alternative energy. You know, if you\u2019re in a bar, you guys, if you\u2019re in a bar anywhere, and you see an attractive woman, you think she\u2019s a liberal, and you want to get to first base, or maybe further, just go up and start talking about alternative energy or renewables, and you will not be able to get rid of her. They just lap this stuff up, ‘Renewables, oh yeah, alternatives, we gotta do it!\u2019 So then Cavuto, who was just dumbfounded here, says, ‘So this whole thing, Congressman, will go away by taxing the oil companies, tapping the excess profits they have, never mind they pay a ton in taxes as it is, but your argument, ‘Look, they\u2019re making money hand over fist, let\u2019s take more of that money,\u2019 but you weren\u2019t around for the Carter years. I looked at a little bit of history here. That experience did not seem to go gangbusters. You\u2019re willing to try that again?\u2019<\/p>\n

PALLONE: You give that to renewables like solar and wind power.<\/p>\n

CAVUTO: You\u2019re Robin Hood now. So you are going to take from one group, assume that it will work better with another group, and you\u2019re going to pick and choose the industries you think will benefit?<\/p>\n

PALLONE: Well, what I want to do is give incentives to homeowners and commercial properties to put in renewables, whether it be solar or wind power, whatever, use that excess profit for that to give them, you know, some kind of subsidy or tax break if they put solar panels on their home.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s already happening. It\u2019s already happening, but take any company, go to the drug companies, having excess profits, windfall profits, ‘Your profits are too big according to us Democrats and us liberals, so we\u2019re going to take those profits and we\u2019re going to apply it to something that has nothing to do with your business.\u2019 Zowie. I\u2019m telling you folks, write this down, August 7th, 2008, the Democrat Party is not going to win this year. This cannot happen. If they keep this up, if they keep talking this way, they are going to lose the White House. I don\u2019t know about congressional races and Senate races, they have a different dynamic going on there because those races are not going to be nationalized. Unfortunately. They should be if there was any kind of strategery, but there isn\u2019t. But this stuff that these people are talking about, they\u2019re on the wrong side of this energy business. The American people full well understand that taxing anybody is not going to lower the price of gasoline and it\u2019s not going to produce any more oil. They know that. This is not complex. This is more of this arrogance that I talked about earlier, the Democrats saying every American agrees with them. Meanwhile, the number-one book coming up on the New York Times best-seller list is going to be an anti-Obama book while Nancy Pelosi\u2019s big book has sold 2,700 copies or what have you. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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