Liars

Q: What do you call two empty seats on a bus full of politicians that is flying off a cliff?

A: A waste.

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A bus load of politicians were driving down a country road when all of a sudden the bus ran off the road and crashed into a tree in an old farmer's field. The old farmer after seeing what happened went over to investigate. He then proceeded to dig a hole and bury the politicians.

A few days later, the local sheriff came out, saw the crashed bus, and then asked the old farmer, "Were they all dead?"

The old farmer replied, "Well, some of them said they weren't, but you know how them politicians lie."

I've watched more TV in the past week than I have in the past year. The reason for this is the Olympics. I love to watch just about any kind of sport. So far, my favorites are badminton and synchronized-diving. I like watching gymnastics too but they don't start until 2230, so I never get to see them all. Due to my time in front of the tube I have, for the first time this election season, also been subjected to Presidential Political ads.

There's the one that compares Obama with Paris Hilton and Britney Spears(Ms. Hilton had her own response) . Obama has some light ads, you know, hope, change, blah, blah, blah. But he also has this one about energy. McCain has a similar one that deals with energy.

The problem is they spend millions of dollars saying they are going to provide tax incentives for solar and wind power while neither of them showed up to vote for a bill that provides said incentives. Not showing is the same as voting no. McCain has missed the vote for this bill eight times. Eight.

This bill makes the price of solar and wind power competitive with coal and oil power. In a free market people choose what is cheaper. Without the incentive tons of projects will be put on hold or canceled when the current incentive ends, 31 December 2008.

You can find out quite of bit of information here on the information super highway. The bills number, S. 3335, gives you the voting record for every senator (both senators from Oregon voted "yea", how about your state?). From their you can look up the actual description of the bill.

Voting

S. 3335 Description

How can you be for promoting renewable energy while at the same time voting against a bill that does that? Simple. Lie.