Out leapt the tiger...

Yeah, Clinton is destroying her cred among the well-informed among us with her stupid gas tax holiday idea. Unfortunately, Obama dominates high-information voters already, so this episode isn't exactly likely to turn the tide against her. I, for one, am not particularly surprised that Clinton's campaign has descended into outright demagogery--it's essentially a combination of the gas tax idiocy, Annie Oakley idiocy, and revisionist NAFTA history idiocy. What does surprise me is that it's taken so long for the progressive community to realize that, behind all the admittedly impressive policy proposals, this woman is fundamentally an unserious person who will do or say anything, regardless of how ridiculous it may be, to gain power. Then again, a cursory look at, say, her history of positions with respect to the Iraq War ought to be enough to convince one of this fact: at every stage she has hewed closely to the conventional wisdom on Iraq. Right now the public is moving a bit to the left on healthcare, but does anyone really expect her to continue to push this in the event that the public reconsiders?