Sticking To Her Bad Ideas

Clinton puts out a contrast ad on her non-sensible solutions to rising gas prices and the mortgage crisis:

I'm with Tom Friedman on this. One way to judge a politician is to see how reluctant they are to use the baldest forms of pandering and bribery to win votes. Even when they know the policy in question is stupid and counter-productive, their short-term political interest always takes precedence over sound policy. For me, this gas tax holiday crap is an almost pure example of this. And McCain and Clinton have both signed on to it. If you want to know about political character, this tells you a lot.