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Republican senators received a flood of angry e-mails and phone calls in response to their plan to mail $100 checks to voters to ease the pinch of ever-rising gasoline prices. Even Rush Limbaugh said the GOP was treating Americans like “whores.”

N.Y. Times:

WASHINGTON, April 30 The Senate Republican plan to mail $100 checks to voters to ease the burden of high gasoline prices is eliciting more scorn than gratitude from the very people it was intended to help.

Aides for several Republican senators reported a surge of calls and e-mail messages from constituents ridiculing the rebate as a paltry and transparent effort to pander to voters before the midterm elections in November.

“The conservatives think it is socialist bunk, and the liberals think it is conservative trickery,” said Don Stewart, a spokesman for Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas, pointing out that the criticism was coming from across the ideological spectrum.

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By Rachel, May 1, 2006 at 7:27 pm #
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It should be every voters duty to research whether or not their senator or congresssman has received any policitical contributions from the oil industry. If so, how much did they pocket to capture your vote? I know when I raised the issue of Exxon/Mobile receiveing record profits during the last quarter in 2006 ($10 billion), with Tom Davis(R-VA) at a townhall meeting in Feb 2006, he mentioned Exxon’s responsibility to their shareholders as a justification for their record breaking profits….

So, in other words, if I do not hold any Exxon/Mobile shares, then, SHAME ON ME!!!! Can you imagine a politican saying that to his constituent?

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