Time for another webvid:
Mr. Palin working on a rig, covered in oil and sweat in a swarm of Alaskan-sized horseflies. He looks up, stops, stands (holding a 50lb KTSN-2 wrench) and says “send the dems a message this year by electing my lady and Mr. McCain, they’ll end this “not-in-my backyard” silliness that has shipped offshore 10s of thousands of great blue-collar jobs like mine.” Then have Mr. McCain barely visible in the background (masked by these giants of men) step forward into view and say “I’m John McCain and I approve this message.”
With the video have the bottom of the page scroll through a list of legislation and supreme court findings that have crippled the energy business (with job counts, dollars lost, and pictures and party affiliation of those responsible). From Mr. Carter’s “windfall profits tax” to now. And on the right-hand side put up pictures of folks at pumps rolling their eyes and shaking their heads in disgust as the digits spin past against a backdrop of “brought to you by the democratic party, where you can spend more and not get less.”
/Ari
(Yes, I know Alaska has an energy severance tax keyed to price – mislabeled as windfall-profits, as do other energy-rich states. Neither pubs nor dems are pure on this matter save the pubs generally come down on the side of the citizen and their enterprise, and protect the freedoms required to strive to make life better).
