Gas pains

Lucas ... I mean John McCain fired off another economic volley recently. But nobody will confuse his aim with The Rifleman's.
Pandering to his Republican base, the Republican nominee called for a suspension of the 18.4-cent federal gas tax from Memorial Day to Labor Day. It just shows that Pander Bear McCain was accurate when he said he had limited knowledge of the economy. But give the man his due. He sure knows his politics.
As a longtime lawmaker McCain understands the proposal is DOA. Even his GOP colleagues won't support it. That tax raises billions for important road and transporation projects that every legislative district in the country shares in. But proposing it makes him look good to the conservative Republicans who have been slow in warming to the Arizonan.
McCain touted it as an economic stimuli for the ailing economy, but the evidence doesn't support that. What evidence? Well, there's the massive tax cuts Bush pushed through. Weren't they supposed to stimulate the economy, which at the time was just emerging from an unprecedented period of growth? How can tax cut supporters maintain that fiction given our current fiscal state of affairs?
Facts? I don't need no stinkin' facts.