I definitely like how he's speaking his mind on one of McCain's dumber proposals. Someone needs to be the adult at the national level, and I can't think of too many people out there better than the Vice President.
Mr. Cheney would do all of us a great favor if he would take on the task of exposing the failed Democrat policies of constraining energy production and economy-killing cap and trade mumbo jumbo.
I’d like to see him debate the Dems more and speak out more, since the GOP Senators can’t collectively find their testicles any longer.
Big Giverment, which does NOTHING makes more revenue in this regard than Big Oil, which (by stark contrast) provides a very necessary service. I generally like Cheney but it is most distressing.
An incredibly stupid comment to make and position to assume - given the present situation, regardless of its veracity.
The fact is, the less government taxes the better, and perhaps $.18 per gallon means little to Mr. Cheney, but it may mean quite a lot realistically to individual Americans in need and quite a bit more to those of who don’t like taxes anyway.
The less Bush and Cheney say and do in the next few months, unless carefully crafted to help defeat Obama, the better. They have done adequate damage to America and the Republican Party as it is.
Once upon a time I really liked Cheney but he and his boss have become as wearisome as the idiot Democrats in Congress.
Talk is cheap. Why not an Executive Order to actually do something?
I’m with McCain on this one. My New York State Senator [LeValle] wants to pull the STATE [and local] tax on gasoline, and that alone comes to 50 cents a gallon. Throw on what the Feds take, and $4.00 + gas is $3.00+ gas.
The cost of gas is killing the middle class and blue collar workers who live outside major cities -and don’t use mass transit. Republicans can attract a lot of those voters who are impacted by those those taxes- and they need all the hlp they can get.
Federal taxes, direct and indirect , are too high anyway. And Cheney’s dismissal of the taxes’ impact overlooks two key issues. Why the hell should they be able to tax gas, incomes, etc. with impunity? And why isn’t the GOP on offense on energy [more drilling, refineries, nuclear power, etc.], and tax reduction [direct and indirect] period.
Combine it with suspending the Calif tax, and it would help a lot.
Of course for Cheney and the other politicians that can afford 10 dollar/gal gas, it's not an issue
Cheney is aware that the appearance of doing something about it counts as much as actually doing something about it. Also, that this is about all the Gov’t can actually do about it.