POLL: Majority Say Gas Tax Holiday Is "Bad Idea", Candidates Helping Themselves Not American People

she's lying. :crazy:

I think Hillary has shot herself in the foot with this one.

Not how it's played out in the M$M. We ARE the ones ...

More than 40% of the American people cannot see past their navels, apparently.

`Stupidgate' -- the scandal that is not to be
Many working-class voters didn't like it to learn that Barack Obama thought of them as bitter.

So how are they going to react now to learn that Hillary Clinton thinks of them as stupid?

Stupid as in not smart enough to recognize how phony, how ill-advised and how generally disgraceful her "gas-tax holiday" idea is. Stupid as in being so thick as not to recognize cheap pandering when they hear it. Stupid as in remaining oblivious to the insult to their intelligence inherent in this ploy.

There isn't even a serious debate among smart people about this idea. Even for a temporary Band-Aid, it's a stinker.

Economists from across the political spectrum are so united on this point that, when asked yesterday to name even one independent expert who endorsed her idea, Clinton replied:

Well, I'll tell you what, I'm not going to put my lot in with economists....We've got to get out of this mind-set where somehow elite opinion is always on the side of doing things that really disadvantage the vast majority of Americans.

No, because those who actually study these things would tell her that someone who drives 30 miles a day stands to save only about $10 a month on her plan and a very similar plan being touted by Republican John McCain. And that's only if we assume that the oil companies won't just jack their prices back up to what the market is currently bearing.

The economists would tell her that taking away gas-tax revenues would stall badly needed infrastructure repairs and cost 300,000 construction jobs.

And they'd remind Clinton that her proposal to cover the loss with a "windfall profits tax" on oil companies is not only a non-starter in Washington with a dubious history, but that she also has already said that she'd direct windfall profits taxes on oil to renewable energy.

It's a terrible idea that kicks a long-term problem down the road by pretending that there are free solutions.

I have enough respect for Hillary Clinton to believe that she knows this.

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http://blogs.chicagotribune.com/news_columnists_ezorn/2008/05/the-latest-scan.html

She's not quite as stupid as she's telling you that you are. Man I wish she would just drop out and concede already. She's making the Dems look bad every time she opens her mouth.

Loaded questions and response bias galore- for starters.

If I could be shocked anymore at what the corporate media will pass along to American SUCKERS as a reflection of reality- this would be close to the top of the list....

than hilary and mcccain!