Yellowdogtexan
06-17-2008, 04:22 PM
mc :cane can not remember what he said from one speech to another and so ends up with some amusing flip flops. Here is only one of the latest http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/washington/AP-McCain.htmlMcCain criticized Obama, his Democratic rival, repeatedly in excerpts of a speech planned for delivery Tuesday evening. He cited Obama's advocacy of a tax on excess oil industry profits as well as the Democrat's vote for President Bush's energy legislation in 2005.
McCain reserved his sharpest words for the windfall profits tax.
''If that plan sounds familiar, it's because that was President Carter's big idea, too. ...I'm all for recycling, but it's better applied to paper and plastic than to the failed policies of the 1970s,'' McCain said in the excerpts.
But on May 5, campaigning in North Carolina, McCain appeared to say he was willing to consider the same proposal.
''I don't like obscene profits being made anywhere. I'd be glad to look not just at the windfall profits tax, that's not what bothers me, but we should look at any incentives that we are giving to people -- or industries or corporations -- that are distorting the markets.''
McCain's campaign did not immediately respond to an e-mail request to explain his earlier remarks. Nor did his aides respond to a request for specific provisions that he found objectionable in the 2005 energy bill he opposed.It has only been five weeks since mc :cane endorsed a windfall profits tax and so it is now time for mc :cane to forget about this position and to attack the concept of a windfall profits tax
McCain reserved his sharpest words for the windfall profits tax.
''If that plan sounds familiar, it's because that was President Carter's big idea, too. ...I'm all for recycling, but it's better applied to paper and plastic than to the failed policies of the 1970s,'' McCain said in the excerpts.
But on May 5, campaigning in North Carolina, McCain appeared to say he was willing to consider the same proposal.
''I don't like obscene profits being made anywhere. I'd be glad to look not just at the windfall profits tax, that's not what bothers me, but we should look at any incentives that we are giving to people -- or industries or corporations -- that are distorting the markets.''
McCain's campaign did not immediately respond to an e-mail request to explain his earlier remarks. Nor did his aides respond to a request for specific provisions that he found objectionable in the 2005 energy bill he opposed.It has only been five weeks since mc :cane endorsed a windfall profits tax and so it is now time for mc :cane to forget about this position and to attack the concept of a windfall profits tax