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Hillary Clinton is calling for a return to the 55 mile an hour speed limit. This is exactly what I’ve been saying over the years. She’s cut more in the mode of a Jimmy Carter than a Bill Clinton. She’ll tell you what’s good for you. Hillary’s the National Speed Bump.

Either this woman is living in the past or she’s got a deal with all the police chiefs of every small town in America. We know she lives in the past by her choice of music for her iPod. Jacob Weisberg thinks she poll-tested it…. She must have polled her music choices actually because her spontaneous reactions are more in line with the 55 mile an hour speed limit deal.

So why is Hillary in the news with calls for a nation-wide speed limit? It’s likely that she’s trying to squelch the Gore Boomlet.

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Samuel Thernstrom has some “inconvenient truths for Al Gore.

May 24, 2006 — WASHINGTON - In a surprise move yesterday, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton called for “most of the country” to return to a speed limit of 55 mph in an effort to slash fuel consumption.
“The 55-mile speed limit really does lower gas usage. And wherever it can be required, and the people will accept it, we ought to do it,” Clinton said at the National Press Club.

Before sounding off on the benefits of a lower speed limit, Clinton called for a combination of tax incentives, the use of more ethanol-based fuel and a $50 billion fund for new energy research to cut the consumption of foreign oil 50 percent by 2025.

She also pushed for half of all the nation’s gas stations to have ethanol pumps by 2015, and for every gas station to have them by 2025.

Hat tip: Betsy’s Page

And here’s more…….

“The 55 mile speed limit really does lower gas usage, and wherever it can be required and that people will accept it, we ought to do it,” Clinton said.

The senator admitted that the move would be too unpopular to implement nationwide. “Well, there are just some parts of the country where that’s just not going to happen,” she said. “You know, where you’ve got miles of open, flat road.”

“I mean, there are things that can be done. So maybe the trade off is, you know, most of the country where 55 miles an hour doesn’t seem like a burden, we have that. In the rest of the country, inflate your tires before you head off into the sunset,” Clinton concluded.

A newly elected Republican majority Congress repealed the national 55 MPH speed limit in 1995 over the objection of then-President Bill Clinton after groups like the National Motorists Association demonstrated the law’s shortcomings as a “life-saving measure.”

What does Hillary mean by most of the country?

I mean…..Blue states? Red states? Her states? You know……Belinda Stronach’s states?

Does Hillary ever complete a sentence without saying, You know and I mean?