AND SOME PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT JOE LIEBERMAN!

Rightfully so, BTW, but Hillary has been sounding just like a wingnut when she attacks Obama. Remember when "the smartest women in the world" said that economists don't matter? Well, Carly Fiorina, a top aide to Granpa McWAR, said just about the same damn thing over the same issue. From Nicole Belle at Crooks & Liars:

STEPHANOPOULOS: President Bush isn’t very enthusiastic about the gas tax holiday, either.

FIORINA: No, he’s not. So there are clear places where George Bush and John McCain differ. And I think John McCain will run on his own record, his own character, his own integrity.

STEPHANOPOULOS: How do you defend that gas tax holiday? I was talking to Senator Clinton last week. and asked her if she could name a credible economist who could support it, and she couldn’t. Can you?

FIORINA: No, I can’t, but, you see, I don’t think it matters. I’m a…

(CROSSTALK)

STEPHANOPOULOS: How can you say that, though?

FIORINA: Because I think economists sometimes argue about the theory. Economists, right now, are arguing theoretically about whether we’re in a recession or not. An American family who is sitting around the kitchen table wondering how they’re going to pay for groceries, fill their gas tank, whether they’re going to stay in their home, whether or not they can send their kid to college this fall. For them, the economy is in difficulty, and all the theoretical discussion is, sort of, irrelevant.

STEPHANOPOULOS: What’s not theory is that this is going to cost $9 billion, and money’s going to come out of the highway trust fund. That could cost up to 300,000 jobs.