Comments on: Will Feinstein Team Up with DeMint and McCain to Destroy CARS? http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/03/will-feinstein-team-up-with-demint-and-mccain-to-destroy-cars/ Firedoglake weblog Sat, 18 Feb 2012 06:08:11 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: PPDCUS http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/03/will-feinstein-team-up-with-demint-and-mccain-to-destroy-cars/#comment-1948754 PPDCUS Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:30:45 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/03/will-feinstein-team-up-with-demint-and-mccain-to-destroy-cars/#comment-1948754 <p>Hey Teddy - thanks for this post.</p> <p>As long as they insist on pouring more gasoline on the financial wildland fire, Cash for Clunkers rebates are as good as any other bailout. </p> <p>However, the real numbers on this popular program are a mixed blessing. <a href="http://market-ticker.denninger.net/archives/1285-What-A-Waste-Cash-For-Clunkers.html" rel="nofollow">http://market-ticker.denninger.....nkers.html</a></p> Hey Teddy – thanks for this post.

As long as they insist on pouring more gasoline on the financial wildland fire, Cash for Clunkers rebates are as good as any other bailout.

However, the real numbers on this popular program are a mixed blessing. http://market-ticker.denninger…..nkers.html

]]> By: madeup64 http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/03/will-feinstein-team-up-with-demint-and-mccain-to-destroy-cars/#comment-1948734 madeup64 Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:05:49 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/03/will-feinstein-team-up-with-demint-and-mccain-to-destroy-cars/#comment-1948734 <p>Being an Arizona state worker, and that McCain voted against the stimulus, that is actually true!!! We got a quite a bit of money that saved quite a few jobs and might have been my own.</p> Being an Arizona state worker, and that McCain voted against the stimulus, that is actually true!!! We got a quite a bit of money that saved quite a few jobs and might have been my own.

]]> By: BevW http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/03/will-feinstein-team-up-with-demint-and-mccain-to-destroy-cars/#comment-1948713 BevW Mon, 03 Aug 2009 23:38:13 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/03/will-feinstein-team-up-with-demint-and-mccain-to-destroy-cars/#comment-1948713 <p>Hi Lydia</p> Hi Lydia

]]> By: bonkers http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/03/will-feinstein-team-up-with-demint-and-mccain-to-destroy-cars/#comment-1948629 bonkers Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:39:52 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/03/will-feinstein-team-up-with-demint-and-mccain-to-destroy-cars/#comment-1948629 <p>hey, why not?</p> hey, why not?

]]> By: Larue http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/03/will-feinstein-team-up-with-demint-and-mccain-to-destroy-cars/#comment-1948606 Larue Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:07:06 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/03/will-feinstein-team-up-with-demint-and-mccain-to-destroy-cars/#comment-1948606 <p>I may be missing it in front of my nose, but someone tell me what’s WRONG with Sci Fi’s statement about RAISING the mileage factor in the program? </p> <p>There ARE documented cases galore of folks with two year old cars switching out SUV’s for more opulent vehicles (albeit with SLIGHTLY better mileage) just to use the govt program to save some money . . . </p> <p>So I have no problem with tinkering with the program to fix and improve it. To that end, and it GAGS me to say it, I find no fault with Sci Fi’s statement, as written (it was in my local rag, at SFGate, etc. too past few days).</p> <p>As to the REST of the Senate, the conservs, GOP and Blue Dogs? Joke ‘em if they can’t take a fuck . . .</p> I may be missing it in front of my nose, but someone tell me what’s WRONG with Sci Fi’s statement about RAISING the mileage factor in the program?

There ARE documented cases galore of folks with two year old cars switching out SUV’s for more opulent vehicles (albeit with SLIGHTLY better mileage) just to use the govt program to save some money . . .

So I have no problem with tinkering with the program to fix and improve it. To that end, and it GAGS me to say it, I find no fault with Sci Fi’s statement, as written (it was in my local rag, at SFGate, etc. too past few days).

As to the REST of the Senate, the conservs, GOP and Blue Dogs? Joke ‘em if they can’t take a fuck . . .

]]> By: ferrarimanf355 http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/03/will-feinstein-team-up-with-demint-and-mccain-to-destroy-cars/#comment-1948586 ferrarimanf355 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:54:32 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/03/will-feinstein-team-up-with-demint-and-mccain-to-destroy-cars/#comment-1948586 <p>“…where lots of old people drive Pontiac Bonnevilles, Chrysler Newports and Ford Galaxy 500s around Sun City because they “know where the headlight switch is,”…”</p> <p>So you don’t mind if the eco-fascists who hijacked the whole automotive debate let the morons of America destroy our automotive heritage? Seriously? Don’t tell me what to drive!</p> “…where lots of old people drive Pontiac Bonnevilles, Chrysler Newports and Ford Galaxy 500s around Sun City because they “know where the headlight switch is,”…”

So you don’t mind if the eco-fascists who hijacked the whole automotive debate let the morons of America destroy our automotive heritage? Seriously? Don’t tell me what to drive!

]]> By: Bluetoe2 http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/03/will-feinstein-team-up-with-demint-and-mccain-to-destroy-cars/#comment-1948585 Bluetoe2 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:51:54 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/03/will-feinstein-team-up-with-demint-and-mccain-to-destroy-cars/#comment-1948585 <p>Maybe the state of Michigan should declare war on S. Carolina and this time finish the job for good.</p> Maybe the state of Michigan should declare war on S. Carolina and this time finish the job for good.

]]> By: whyknot http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/03/will-feinstein-team-up-with-demint-and-mccain-to-destroy-cars/#comment-1948584 whyknot Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:41:32 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/03/will-feinstein-team-up-with-demint-and-mccain-to-destroy-cars/#comment-1948584 <p>Amen! This country plainly needs to go bonkers.</p> Amen! This country plainly needs to go bonkers.

]]> By: JaneaneTheAcerbicGoblin http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/03/will-feinstein-team-up-with-demint-and-mccain-to-destroy-cars/#comment-1948583 JaneaneTheAcerbicGoblin Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:33:49 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/03/will-feinstein-team-up-with-demint-and-mccain-to-destroy-cars/#comment-1948583 <p>The GOP wants to re-destroy the economy. They miss the economy of a year ago, when it was in a complete tailspin. McCain did say “the fundamentals were sound” back then. He probably believed it, too.</p> The GOP wants to re-destroy the economy. They miss the economy of a year ago, when it was in a complete tailspin. McCain did say “the fundamentals were sound” back then. He probably believed it, too.

]]> By: drouse http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/03/will-feinstein-team-up-with-demint-and-mccain-to-destroy-cars/#comment-1948582 drouse Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:33:28 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/03/will-feinstein-team-up-with-demint-and-mccain-to-destroy-cars/#comment-1948582 <p>At what point does ideology differ from senility</p> At what point does ideology differ from senility

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