Quote-Unquote Experts

The Clinton campaign, the campaign pushing the pointless gas tax, represents the serious adults.

“There are times that a president will take a position that a broad support of quote-unquote experts agree with. And there are times they will take a position that quote-unquote experts do not agree with.”

Talk about "creating your own reality."

I don't want to keep finding these parallels between Clinton and Bush, I really don't...

UPDATE: This is fucking pathetic. And the thing is that amplifying the right-wing smear machine to official Washington probably works. It does, however, happen on both sides and it's a necessary consequence of rabid partisanship and the easy facility of linking things around.

UPDATE II: Ouch. And Mark Udall is an uncommitted superdelegate. This is another reason why Clinton's gambit is so tactically stupid - by trying to bully Congress into passing this cynical policy, she's alienating the very people she needs to actually get the nomination - uncommitted supers. Mark Udall probably saw the next eight years flash before his eyes and he didn't like it.

"The so-called ‘temporary gas tax holiday' that Senators Clinton and McCain propose won't deliver this needed relief. This will not create the economic relief they say it will, because prices will continue to rise until we address the real source of this problem. We do need to provide immediate relief for families hard-hit by spiraling gas prices, and we can do that by demanding the President stop adding to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. This will ease the production crunch that is causing these skyrocketing gas prices.

"Senator Clinton claimed yesterday that I either stand with her on this proposal or stand with the oil companies. To that I say: I stand with the families of Colorado, who aren't looking for bumper sticker fixes that don't fix anything, but for meaningful change that brings real relief and a new direction for our energy policy. We can't afford more Washington-style pandering while families keep getting squeezed.

"It is exactly the kind of short-sighted Washington game that keeps us from getting real results to our energy problem. Experts across the ideological spectrum agree that it will increase the deficit, drain money away from Colorado roads and bridges, and hurt the environment, all without actually making prices lower for drivers."