If we took a holiday …
April 30th, 2008 Posted in Of InterestIt’s interesting that the shameful pandering that is the gas tax holiday is being acknowledged as such by the establishment press; I can’t remember such a broad consensus in the punditocracy about charges like that. Is that because Obama resistance to that pandering is such a rarity? If there weren’t that contrast I’m not sure the establishment press would approach the story in that way; they might take it as a face value policy decision, as they do many other sorts of pandering. Notice that in most areas such anti-pandering would be heresy, insofar as pandering usually has something to do with national pride (”how dare you say American foreign policy had something to do with 9/11!”). On the other hand, the Republicans routinely get away with the most gratuitous pander of all, and a shell game to boot, tax cuts. If Obama can do to tax cuts in general what he’s doing the gas tax holiday, when may finally be seeing a Democrat who has the courage and know-how to successfully fight instead of tucking tail and parroting the Republicans in political fear (on the Iraq war, economic policy, etc.).
