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panties are all in knots...

They know this race is very winnable for Governor Gilmore.

Oh this is precious... too precious:

Sen. Webb has joined with Sen. Warner to cosponsor a bill that would open Virginia's coast to drilling for natural gas. John McCain's allies couldn't be more pleased, using Sen. Webb's support to paint McCain as a moderate and Barack Obama as an out-of-touch liberal:

Actually every one with a brain knows that Hussein is an out of touch liberal, it's the fact their eyes haven't opened just yet to another out of touch limousine liberal.  It gets better:

I joked in an earlier post about Jimmy Hoffa not being killed but instead moving to Chile, where he organized a truckers strike against that Federal Government for relief from high gas taxes.  I am going to reprint this because I think it is so illustrative of road taxes, and how they effect the national economy, private industry, and every day people.

My premise is that the Chilean gas tax system is done on a percentage basis whereby as fuel prices tripled so did the taxes imposed on the fuel.  Thereby, the Government experienced a windfall in tax collection due to the increased cost of the product.  That is why rebating 80% of the fuel tax to the truckers was probably revenue neutral for the government to build the roads, as opposed to our system, whereby we have a fixed tax per gallon of fuel.

Consider this and please visit the link and evaluate it as we enter into the special Transportation General Assembly session here in Virginia.  Let me also add that Chilean Truckers are probably independent, or owner operators as we call them here in the USA.  The most interesting feature of my first two trips to Chile was the number of privately owned buses.  Yes, each bus was owner operated.  A guy would stand in the street and direct them to the passengers for a fee.

Wild concept you say?  I do not know this for a fact, but I surmise that same situation is the case in Chile for freight trucks, because in the four trips there, I have never noticed any dominate trucking companies names on the sides of the trucks like you notice, JB Hunt, Schneider, CR England, etc here in the USA.  Hence the union to give them leverage in the Chilean Congress.

 Prost to Chile!)

 Maybe the Mob really just chased Jimmy Hoffa to Chile. Check out this story, "Chile Govt. Reaches Compromise with Trucking Industry", excerpt:

On the third day of the strike that put 6,000 trucks off the highways, Transportation Minister René Cortázar led round-table negotiations Thursday evening with seven trucking union directors, including CNDC President Juan Araya, to reach an agreement on fuel tax relief. To strike a deal, the government agreed to kick back 80 percent of the fuel taxes now paid by truckers. Initially, the government proposed a 25 percent reimbursement, then a 50 percent reimbursement.

After several tense hours and at least four different offers, Cortázar raised his offer to an 80 percent return on truckers' fuel taxes. Near 2 a.m. Friday morning, Araya finally compromised and called off the strike.

Remember just a couple months ago independent truckers tried to organize a one week strike in America to protest the high cost of diesel.... They couldn't pull it off because they lack the organization and our economy is probably too big to pull this off.  Chile is a nation 30 to 40 miles wide (literally), and over 3,000 miles long.  The primary economy is located around Santiago and Valparaiso the major port, and all within an hour and a half drive.

Notice who the strike was against though... not the oil companies, not some big mean low wage paying company... no Chile has a thriving free market economy.... the strike was against the high fuel taxes levied by the government!

Talk about forcing a tax holiday on the Federal Government... well it happened.. because the truckers needed a break, and the citizens know who ends up paying for higher fuel prices, and the associated taxes... Them!

Rut Ro Rickey!  There's more, what else did the citizens say?:

“What happens with all the drivers that also use their car every day to go to work?” Zaldívar asked. El Mercurio's survey of 600 residents in greater Santiago found that 83.5 percent of participants said the same tax relief should be extended to taxis, and 82.3 percent said buses should get the same rights, too. Over three-fourths said the tax rebate should even extend to certain passenger vehicles.

This looks like it needs more research, but apparently the gas tax is set on a percentage of the fuel price, and not per gallon like the Federal and State gas taxes here in the USA...  My God, if our taxes were the same way with some tax-a-holics attitudes, the Feds and states will be wishing for a percentage too!

If that were the case, we'd never get to drill in ANWR or offshore... It would drive down the price of fuel, and the resulting gas tax collections.  Like our ever tax hungry pols, would ever go for that!

 (Hussein sets himself apart... from the USA)

I seem to remember the Dems bringing up Senator George Allen's middle name, Felix.

What's good for the Goose is good for the Gander isn't it?

When are we Republicans going to stop letting the Liberal Leftists in this nation set the rules?

Any opening to attack a Republican, they do it.  When Republicans fight back they squeal it's not fair.  Live by the sword, die by the sword.

(Jimmy 'D' Dhimmi? **)

 RK has their Virgil Vigil, where they are hoping Conservatives will condemn Rep Virgil Goode's remarks that America should limit immigration of Muslims so as to prevent the debacle that has befallen Europe. RK says:

You thought we were going to let the Virginia GOP just slide by silent and unbruised over Virgil Goode's constant xenophobic attacks on a fellow congressman and an entire religious faith? 

Nope - the Virgil Vigil begins. Click the graphic in the right sidebar or this link to see whether your local Republican has said anything about comments like this:

That's all interesting, but what about Senator Jim Webb's condemnation of Rep. Goode's remarks?

Well, I have checked here, and here, along with here, which would seem to be a fitting forum for Senator James Webb to denounce Rep. Virgil Goodes remarks.

I hear crickets chirping people....

Senator Jim Webb's silence is a tacit, if not non verbal endorsement of Rep. Virgil Goode's remarks on Muslim Immigration into the United States?

**Jimmy D Dhimmi?