Oh BOY! ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS! WooHoo! What are you gonna Buy?!?

[Up2Late]

If you didn't hear, Bill "she doesn't look brain dead to me" Frist, is gonna give us all a $100.00 bribe! (rather than repealing the Big Oil Tax breaks).:evilgrin:

[rockymountaindem]

1. I'm gonna buy gas!

Hopefully it'll still be good for half a tank by the time we get the check.

[evlbstrd]

2. Food.

Sorry, but I'm hungry.

[Xipe Totec]

3. Can't decide

Either one $300 hooker-bot, or 300 $1 hooker-bots.

-Bender, Futurama, "300 big boys"

[mr.alleycat]

7. Hmmm

Wait a year and buy 100 of his latest book:bounce:

[Up2Late]

15. 300? Do you have a sure thing that you'd like to share?

Or is $300 what you think the compromise will be, between the $100.00 the ReThugs are promising and the $500.00 the Dems proposed?

[Xipe Totec]

20. In Futurama they get a $300 tax rebate,

from the Arachnid war, in the form of a Tricky-Dick fun-bucks check.

The similarity to this real life situation is creepy. :scared:

[Salviati]

17. I'm gonna go for the 100 cups of coffee...

Miles Teg like powers here I come!

[Xipe Totec]

24. Now there's a fellow Futurama Fan!

:thumbsup:

[uppityperson]

4. how does he propose to get that $100 to each of us?

[tularetom]

9. Save your gas receipts and mail them to

the newly created government Office of Energy Independence ( a wholly owned subsidiary of Exxon Mobil) In 6 months you will receive a voucher good for $100 worth of gas (which will at that time buy you about 10 gallons). The administrative overhead on the $100 rebate will amount to $250. And most people will need the money anyway to "put food on their family". You are witnessing the genesis of yet another republican clusterfuck.

[Up2Late]

22. What? You didn't get you check yet?

I think the check Genie is going to make them appear by magic. (I would have said the Check Fairy, but the ReThugs might come and find me if I used the word Fairy when referring to something they are doing).

[BattyDem]

5. Wait ... don't spend it ...

They'll probably take it back when you file your taxes next year ... just like they did with the $300 "rebate" :eyes:

[Botany]

6. give it to a democratic candidate

A good one.

I think I might send it to the guy running against joe Leiberman in the primary.

[rfranklin]

8. I could buy one fifth of a pair of glasses...

or one and a half tires for my car...

or two thirds of a pair of shoes...

two pairs of khaki pants...

one trip to the supermarket...

or a few tanks of gas...

such bounty is hard to contemplate.

[DanCa]

10. I missed it what does this pertain too?

[Up2Late]

18. Today's Washington D.C. ReThug Photo Opp, one day after the Dems...

...did the exact same thing (except that the Dems offered $500.00).

Here's an audio link from NPR, if you listen, it almost sound like it pains Frist to give us any of our money back: <http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5367093>

Senate GOP Floats Gas-Rebate Plan

Listen to this story...(at link)
by David Welna

All Things Considered, April 27, 2006 · Senate Republicans
propose a $100 rebate check for millions of taxpayers Thursday
to counter high gasoline costs, but linked the assistance to drilling
in an Alaska wildlife refuge, thus assuring the measure would face stiff
opposition from most Democrats.

[DanCa]

19. Thank you my friend.

I dont listen to NPR all that much all though the local npr has a cool blues show on saturday. Thanks again.
:hug:

[madrchsod]

11. remember boys and girls--- it`s taxable

[godhatesrepublicans]

12. Right to the ACLU with my check.

Or maybe the American Friends Services Committee. They do great work, and I'm overdue for another donation. Join me, won't you? Just to piss off Frist.

http://www.afsc.org/

AFSC Mission Statement

The American Friends Service Committee is a practical expression of the faith of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). Committed to the principles of nonviolence and justice, it seeks in its work and witness to draw on the transforming power of love, human and divine.

We recognize that the leadings of the Spirit and the principles of truth found through Friends' experience and practice are not the exclusive possession of any group. Thus, the AFSC draws into its work people of many faiths and backgrounds who share the values that animate its life and who bring to it a rich variety of experiences and spiritual insights.

[Up2Late]

23. But the Quakers are on the Terrorist watch list now.

All that sitting around quietly....thinking.

They can have that.

[diamondsndust]

13. my money is going to ...

help send a message! I'm gonna get a few of these ===> http://www.offrampbums.com/bushbum.html and a few of these ===> http://www.offrampbums.com/kit3.html so I'll be ready when the economy gets worse!

[ncrainbowgrrl]

14. gas.

and then I'm going to scream about the potholes in the roads if they take it out of the highway taxes that maintain the roads.

[tulsakatz]

16. you know, when you think about this.........

..if they're more willing to give each of us $100.00 instead of repealing the tax breaks, it makes you realize how important these tax breaks are to them.

They must be getting some serious kickbacks from the oil and gas industry!

[Up2Late]

26. You got that right!

What amazes me is that Frist and his buds seem to think that $100.00 is all it would take for us to change our minds about destroying Alaska's North Slope (ANWAR), if they don't get to drill ANWAR, we don't get our $100 Dollars.

[Norquist Nemesis]

31. I can hear the Loyal Bushipers now

"Isn't that wonderful?!?!?" Then, when you try and point out some facts to them what a smack in the face it is to the average, every day American, you'll hear something like, "Well, what do you expect? A welfare handout for life?" or some other rediculous strawman sentiment.

The GOP also doesn't provide the details on this $100. I've heard "every taxpayer" and "every car driving taxpayer". They'll probably find a way to make it be claimed on next year's taxes, too!

[TheFarseer]

21. I'm going to pay a fraction of my rent

Aren't republicans going to bitch about run-away spending? I guess it's OK when they are trying to bribe voters. . . . . . . . . .

edited so that I don't sound like I just flunked 2nd grade english.

[blondeatlast]

25. Why, I'm going to do the patriotic thing and spend it to boost

the economy!

Buying gas and food are for those librulz.

I'm gonna buy me some sho--no; okay, some clo--oops, a big screen t--no, guess not.

[Up2Late]

27. kick n/t

:kick:

[Zorra]

28. $100? Heck, I'm gonna retire. n/t

[nickinSTL]

29. I think I'll donate it to my state Dem Senate candidate

Claire McCaskill.

Might as well use it to try to take the government back.

Really, McCaskill isn't near as progressive as I'd like, but she's our best chance of unseating Jim Talent (a complete waste and Bushbot - of course, that's redundant :evilgrin: )

[Jeffersons Ghost]

30. NEIL YOUNG ALBUMS!

[TayTay]

32. Send it to Gold Star Mothers for Peace

They are the ones who had to pay the price for my little dividend.

[bluedog]

33. bottom line.we are "paying"ourselves $100.

its coming from the Government..out of our taxes........not the oil companies where it should be coming......

there is nothing to get excited about here..........its like taking $100 off your irs statement and keeping it......big damn deal

[Up2Late]

37. It's not even that good, it's worst than you describe, because it's...

...adding to this years Federal budget deficit, so it's borrowed money that will eventually have to be paid back with interest, after it's added to our $8.3 Trillion Dollar National Debt.

I don't think many here are fooled by this stunt, which is why we are mocking it.

[bdamomma]

34. this $100 dollar thing is crap

and insulting to the American People, a $100 dollars is nothing, how insulting these thugs are, again, they are showing their total disdain for the American people. They are shameless, they can take the $100 and put it in a place where the sun doesn't shine.

[yellowcanine]

35. Two tanks of gas! Gee thanks, Republicans. You DO care.

:sarcasm:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

36. Two forty-dollar bus cards and a twenty-dollar bus card

I'm serious. That's actually $111 worth of bus rides, so it should hold me for about five months at my usual rate of use. (I'm self-employed and work at home.)

[alfredo]

38. Join Amnesty, donate to DU, give to the DNC and local

Dem organization. Oh yeah, MoveOn could use some help.

Buy booze with the rest.