The Full Bush

Howard Wolfson responds to the fact that nobody thinks a gas tax holiday would be a good idea:

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

That seems eerily reminiscent of a certain least-popular president ever's attitude toward governance. What happened to the idea that Clinton is the candidate of policy substance, competence, and experience?

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http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2008/05/the-full-bush/44630/