Interesting - Krugman hasn't written a column on the McCain/Hillary gax tax plan

For some strange reason, I suspect that if Obama and Hillary's positions on the gas tax were reversed, Krugman would have written extensively about the topic?

Mea culpa... I am wrong - he has written about it:
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/29/gas-tax-follies/

Krugman knows it's pandering, too, but doesn't want to say so.

I scanned through his columns and missed this one. Time for an eye doctor checkup! :)

He said the plan was crap. But Clinton is still his choice because of healthcare plans.

This is from today's coverage:

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/05/more-on-that-fa.html

More On That False Quote in the Obama TV Ad
May 06, 2008 10:42 AM

As we recently fact-checked, Sen. Barack Obama has been running a TV ad that falsely uses a quote from New York Times columnist Paul Krugman about Sen. John McCain's gas tax holiday plan and applies it to Sen. Hillary Clinton's plan.

Last night Krugman blogged on the matter.

"I did not say that the Clinton proposal would increase oil industry profits," Krugman writes. "If the ad implies that I did, it should be retracted. The Clinton proposal is financed by an excess profits tax. At worst, it sends money in a circle. In practice, it would probably reduce oil industry profits at least slightly, since the rise in the pre-tax price of gasoline probably wouldn’t wipe out all of the tax cut. I was very clear when I wrote about the Clinton proposal that while I didn’t think it was good policy, it was not the same as McCain’s, and relatively harmless. If the Obama people are suggesting otherwise, they’re being deliberately dishonest."

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