Hillary Clinton, Populist Extraordinaire

Matthew Yglesias:

Economists, environmentalists, everyone who’s thought about the issue for ten minutes, etc. I’m not going to say that our public policy should blindly conform to the consensus among the economics profession, but the gas tax holiday is an illiteracy on a much deeper level — there’s simply no support for this idea among people who’ve looked at it in a serious way. That’s not elitism, that’s reality, and what Clinton’s selling is Bush-style misgovernment.