Maggie Hassan has new ads fouling up my television viewing experience. In them, she claims to be bucking her party by trying to push a federal gas tax holiday (with no chance of passing) because gas prices are too damn high.
It’s BS and I’d bet money you’ll find a similar screed from any other Democrat in a tight November Race. She may even have the party’s blessing; Pretend all you want, we know it would never see debate, but it might save your ass.
Here’s the Ad. Warning: do not drink or eat anything while watching. It might end up in your nose or all over your laptop.
Hassan is trying to reposition herself as a moderate (again). It is a tactic she’s been plying for decades—middle of the road Maggie. And look! A gas tax holiday.
But Maggie votes for the Biden/Party line 97.7%. She never mentions that in the ad or how she deliberately made not just gas but the price of everything go up.
Soaring Gas Prices
It’s window dressing, of course. A gas tax holiday does almost nothing to address the underlying problem of which she is an integral part.
Production and Inflation. Without revisiting it, the Bidenistas went to war on domestic production on day one. A war that continued last week when they canceled a significant oil and gas lease sale. Not a peep from Maggie, but that makes sense. She’s never voted to increase production, quite the opposite (care of the NRSC).
- Hassan has voted at least two times against energy exploration in ANWR (Senate Roll Call Votes: 12/2/17, 12/21/17)
- In 2021, Hassan voted three times against legislation to prohibit a ban on fracking (Senate Roll Call Votes: 2/4/21, 2/5/21, 8/10/21)
- In 2021, Hassan voted four times against advancing the Keystone XL Pipeline, killing roughly 11,000 good-paying jobs in the process (Senate Roll Call Votes: 2/4/21, 2/5/21, 3/6/21, 3/6/21)
- Hassan has a 99% lifetime rating from the League Of Conservation Voters, a group leading advocacy of the Green New Deal (National Environmental Scorecard, League Of Conservation Voters)
Maggie’s also a hypocrite. In 2014 she claimed credit for a 22% increase in “exports” from New Hampshire. Over 21% of that was “from oil, fracked out of the ground in the Bakken oil fields, carried via rail, through New Hampshire (without ever stopping here) on its way to Canada.”
She’d never support fracking, but she tried to use it to make her look like a good leader for New Hampshire. The gas tax holiday is more of the same sort of fraud.
Soaring Gas Prices Part II
Then there’s Inflation. It is as much or more to blame. The Dems have spent more money than (perhaps) any congress and in record time. The “money” isn’t real, and without equivalent products or services to back it up, every new dollar devalues each one that proceeds it.
The entire fossil fuel process, from exploration to extraction to refining to delivery, costs more because of record-setting Inflation.
A gas tax holiday can’t change that, and hyperinflation – which seems likely – will erase the worthless dollar or two it represents per tank in the blink of an eye. Not that it is worth much now, thanks to Maggie.
This deliberate devaluation of the dollar via Democrat spending policy has also motivated other nations to begin dropping it as a global currency. They are abandoning the US petrodollar. If you wanted to make a currency worthless, Maggie Hassan and Democrats are doing a fine job.
The federal gas tax holiday idea is smoke and mirrors. The problems are deep and systemic, and Hassan finds herself and her voting record in radical left-wing territory with the likes of Klobuchar, Menendez, Lahey, Markey, Kelley, Kaine, and Hirono. And she’s more “Biden” than Durbin, Booker, or Bernie.
Maggie Hassan isn’t bucking her party; she’s *ucking over her constituents, and a gas tax holiday can’t fix that.
