So, there’s this lady running for President of the United States? You might have heard? And she says she’s a Democrat, but, this week, she’s spent her time advocating a big tax cut that can’t help but have negative repercussions on the economy, the environment, transportation spending, the budget deficit and our country’s oil dependence. Her response to the economists and environmentalists that have been unable to come up with any reason to support it?

I’m not going to put my lot in with economists. If we actually did it right, if we had a president who used all the tools of the presidency, we would design it in such a way that it would be implemented effectively.

Oh, ok, then! Gosh, I don’t think we’ve ever had a Presidential candidate, or a President, who eschewed the advice of experts before! And especially not when it comes to tax cuts! That’s so original! And, really, if she just designed her tax cut right, it’ll all come up roses! Also, I mean, obviously, it’s just because the economists are out of touch:

On so many of these issues where costs have gone up, where people are really feeling squeezed, there just doesn’t seem to be an understanding about what people go through

Ah, yes, the multimillionaire lifetime political wife/politician who is driven around by drivers and rarely pays for gas herself knows way more about what the common people go through than a bunch of ivory-tower university economists making academic salaries and commuting to their university campuses in their ten year old cars who think that there could be — imagine that — negative consequences to a tax cut proposed by a politician pandering to a certain section of the electorate in order to win an election. Gosh, I don’t know why I’m having this sense of déjà vu.

Clinton: I’m not listening to economists on gas tax holiday [CNN]