Good Way To Attract Superdelegates

Anger them by forcing them to take sides in your pathetic pander game.

After several days of back and forth between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama over whether a summer-long elimination of the gas tax would help or hurt, Clinton took a hard line, asking her colleagues in Congress to take sides.

“I believe it would be important to get every member of Congress on record,” Clinton told supporters at a rally in southern Indiana. “Do they stand with the hard-pressed Americans who are trying to pay their gas bills at the gas station or do they once again stand with the oil companies?

“I want to know where people stand and I want them to tell us, are they with us or against us when it comes to taking on the oil companies?” she added.

Do you understand that, if the skies opened and made you President, you would have to DEAL with those members of Congress, and you're setting off by squeezing them in some triangulating nonsense? Do you think they'll take kindly to that?

Hill, c'mere a second. The oil companies won't suffer one iota from this. They'd pass a lot of a windfall profits tax on to the consumer. The consumer would see no change between eliminating the gas tax for a few months and the inevitable raised prices, in part due to the increased consumption that normally causes gas to go up in the summer. Nothing would change. And you know this. Yet you persist, and absent legislation, by the way - so Congress is supposed to "choose sides" on a non-existent bill?

This is the stupidest, worst piece of cynical politics of the entire cycle. Yes, WORSE than Obama's Harry and Louise ads. This reveals that Hillary Clinton will do nothing to impact global warming if it stands in the way of votes. That's a sin of the highest order at this crucial time. She's not to be trusted on this, or anything for that matter. I know that white working-class voters making under $50,000 aren't the target audience of this site, but I impress upon any of them who are to take a moment to think about the implications of this.

UPDATE: I should add that McCain doesn't know what he's talking about either. Low-income Americans drive the least because a lot of them can't afford a car. And beneficiaries of any cut in gas prices would be rich people driving Hummers and SUVs.