It also gives you an idea of how Nancy would act with a Hillary presidency.

Suddenly Nancy would be strongly against things proposed by the president, rather than a pushover as she is with Bush.

That's 100 million cars.

Now if you say that each one of those cars uses 12 gallons per week on average, lets crunch some numbers.

What you come up with is the possibility that a Republican talking point can go like this:  

House Democrats denied a 228 Million dollar tax break for the middle class!

Now of course no one can prove that's what would have happened.  Econ101 says it would not have.  And anyone with a brain will know that a 228 million dollar tax break only works out to like 28 bucks per person in the middle class, etc. etc.

Just mulling over the politics involved here.  And I find it odd what talking points we live in fear of and which one's we validate going forward.

For sure, it can be construed as political pandering, and it is being so. But then, so could President Franklin Roosevelt's March 1933 "bank holiday", or his April 1942 order to Col. Jimmy Doolittle to lead an air raid on imperial Japan with only 16 B-25s launched from the deck of an aircraft carrier.

And while Hillary Clinton certainly understands that in refashioning her campaign as economically populist in tone, the D.C. Beltway-centric House majority Leader Steny Hoyer, self-absorbed Speaker Nancy Pelosi and resident political torch singer Barack Obama either clearly do not, or merely wish to deny Mrs. Clinton the moment.

But I return to the symbolism, after eight years of having the government put corporations over people, it's a powerful symbol for democrats to send that they are going to do what they can to put people first.

So what does the Democratic leadership do, immediately announce that the plan that would try to shift the economic burden from people to corporations, at least temporarily, is DOA.  No wonder Democrats lose elections.  

But, hey, Pelosi did say that it was dead because it would interfere with the other things Democrats are trying to do to lower the price of gas.   So apparently there is some plan, some where to help lower gas prices (although it's a super secret plan apparently).    I can't help but wonder if it is similar to all the things democrats are doing to end the war in Iraq?  Because it seems about as effective given that my neighborhood cheap-o gas station is at $3.81 a gallon.  

As for Obama, his last ad claimed the way to fix gas prices is to fix Washington.  If I have to wait for him to fix Washington, I'm going to be paying $8 a gallon.