Listening to to her mouthpiece Howard Wolfson, responding to questions as to why Hillary supports a gas tax summer holiday despite the fact that there isn't a single economic expert that thinks it's a good idea, I've concluded Hillary has as much use for experts who disagree with her as George W. Bush.The Huffington Post tried to find an nonpartisan expert who thought the gas tax holiday was a good idea. They couldn't find a single one LINK [1].
Michael Bloomberg said "It's about the dumbest thing I've heard in an awful long time, from an economic point of view. We're trying to discourage people from driving and we're trying to end our energy dependence ... and we're trying to have more money to build infrastructure."
But Howard Wolfson, Clinton's chief spokesman, said: "We believe the presidency requires leadership. There are times that a president will take a position that a broad support of quote-unquote experts agree with. And there are times they will take a position that quote-unquote experts do not agree with."
Wolfson-Clinton, put your ears to the ground. The silence you hear is the absense of any member of the expert cavalry coming to your rescue.
Bush didn't listen to his own generals on Iraq. He ignored experts on scientific issues like global warming and abstinence only education. He made it clear that he was "the decider".
Experts be damned when you don't agree with them.
This is all we need after eight years of the royal rule of The Decider, a president who leads by the seat of her pantsuit.
