Why did Hillary stop promoting gas tax cut?
I am indeed pleased that Hillary Clinton’s demonization of Barack Obama and political grandstanding has all but disappeared, but at the same time it raises even more questions in my mind. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not asking for a return to life as it was a few days ago, but if all the things she said were so important and credible, why are they not equally as important today?
I’m not talking about political processes (viz. MI and FL) or similar issues — they’re self-serving. Instead, I’m referring to issues like that all important gas tax plan Clinton plagiarized from John McCain.
Remember this ultimatum?
“I believe it is important to get every member of Congress on the record. Do they stand with hard pressed Americans who are trying to pay their gas bills at the gas station or do they once again stand with the big oil companies? That’s a vote I’m going to try to get, because I want to know where they stand and I want them to tell us - are they with us or against us?”
The better question may be, how could one forget it?
So, in just over a week, Hillary went from promoting her do-or-die gas-tax-cut plan every minute of every day to this statement in response to George Bush’s trip to Saudi Arabia this week.
“I don’t think it is a good energy policy to depend upon the kindness of the Saudis … while businesses and individuals are trying to figure out how they’re going to afford nearly $4 a gallon gas and nearly $5 a gallon diesel,” she said. “The impact is really beginning to ripple dramatically through the economy. . . .”
“I think it’s very important that we do something more dramatic than going to have tea with the Saudis,” she said. “The Saudis may decide, well we better do something to help out President Bush, but that’s a short term fix. It is not going to have any long-term consequences. And we just have to take a different approach if we’re going to begin to get serious.”
There is no doubting what answer Clinton would give today if quizzed on the plan she deemed so vital to our nation less than 10 days ago. But what does it say about her credibility when she abandons that all-important plan now that she is not actively trying to destroy Barack Obama (overtly)? Are all those “hard working white Americans” less important today and no longer in need of her soaring rhetoric promoting her flawless solution?
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