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June 24th at 3:20PM

John McCain Will Open Your Shores and Drill Them So Hard

POSTED BY: CubbyChaser

Today John McCain is hangin' in California with the Governator, part of an effort to burnish his eco-credentials at a panel discussion on the environment.

Of course, it's entirely possible some tofu-eating tree-hugger will throw a vegan pie at the GOP candidate, because last week McCain announced his support for offshore oil drilling at states' discretion. That's part of an even more important effort to maybe bring gas prices down a little bit.

You'd think freeway-happy Californians would get behind this idea...

[McCain's] newfound support for allowing states to decide whether to drill offshore, announced last week in Texas, carries risk. Having spent much of his campaign trying to distance himself from the current President Bush and Republican orthodoxy, McCain has now changed his tune to theirs on a hugely symbolic issue that has long helped motivate the independent voters whose support he needs to claim the White House.

Diana Cuttrell of Santa Barbara is one of them, and she fiercely opposes McCain's new stance.

"It's not going to solve the problem," she said of McCain's proposal to lift the federal moratorium on sea drilling. "It's a Band-Aid, basically. It's just pretty idiotic."

Okay, Diana Cuttrell of Santa Barbara. So I guess if you ever wind up in the hospital with six broken ribs and a gaping head wound, you'll just turn down a Band-Aid when someone offers you one.

It's so weird how some people refuse to let you help them.

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McCain is trying to win Bush's big oil cronies.

by obamagramma June 24th at 7:25PM
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May 8th at 11:32AM

Our Next Item Up For Bid, This Superdelegate's Support

POSTED BY: CubbyChaser

With the race for superdelegates in full swing, a Mexican-American California superdelegate has promised to sell his support for some sweet, sweet cash...

He says he'll sell his vote for a price. A very high price: $20 million. Sacramento superdelegate Steven Ybarra says that eight-figure price is peanuts for the presidency.

When asked whether it was right to offer what is clearly a quid pro quo?

"Yeah, absolutely. People do it all the time," answered Ybarra.

This just sickens me. Using his high status in the Democratic Party for his personal gain. That's unheard of. What does Ybarra want the money for anyway? To buy a bunch of sombreros and habanero peppers and naps?

Ybarra wants every cent of the $20 million to go toward registering and educating eligible Mexican-American voters, who he calls the key to the white house.

Oh.

Well, that's kind of, um, honorable. It's kinda not fair the way the article was written; it didn't mention his intentions until midway through and tricked me into thinking he was being greedy.

That thing about the sombreros and the naps and stuff... I don't really think like that. It's just, um... Well, you know.

Still, it seems unlikely that Ybarra will get $20 million dollars out of the candidates, who need to spend that money ads calling each other names and accusing each other of being unAmerican.

Plus, I'm sure they can find ten or twenty superdelegates from below the border who will register and educate eligible Mexican-American voters for $2 million and a mattress to sleep on.

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