So, on the matter of the gas tax holiday. There have been a lot of arguments advanced against it. The Clinton camp has advanced a series of imaginative panderings for it. And I sorta got all caught up in it for a while. I think I have a pretty good handle on all the ways in which a gas tax holiday will not save anyone any money, but will lose lots of money for the government in favor of the oil companies. I think I have HRC's quote about how she doesn't put any stock in these new-fangled "economists" down pat.
What amazes me is that in the midst of all of this chatter, I allowed myself to be completely taken in. I never once, until this moment, realized the most important fact in all of this:
None of these people are going to be President this summer. This whole arguement is moot.
-JEK
Is pretty sure he hates the phrase "at the pump" even more than he hates the phrase "on Day One," which is a lot.
Monday, May 5, 2008
Gas Tax
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
2 comments:
Ah, good point. I hadn't realized that either. It's really George Bush and the current congress that would have to enact a gas tax holiday. Amazing that I was totally caught up in it too. In fact, after reading your post I got really confused and it took me aminute to figure out what you were saying.
I suppose there's some validity to making bold statements about what you would do if you were president RIGHT NOW, but certainly this is misleading.
It reminds me of the drummed up debate over gay marriage in 2004. That was also moot, since no president was going to be able to ammend the constitution with bigotry, but it was a well designed topic of conversation that excited people to the polls.
I also hate the phrase "on the ground"
Post a Comment