John McCain called for it first. Hillary Clinton saw a good game and followed suit days after. That was the 21st of April. By the 29th Barack Obama was saying, this was just a gimmick to help them get through the elections.

Yet McCain and Clinton have gone full force on this "gas tax holiday" idea, even though on the The Hill, the idea is DOA. Let's add to the non-starter the fact that many economists have declared the proposal a horrible idea. What are McCain and Clinton to do?

Well, McCain has owned up to the fact that it's just an itsy bitsy band-aid measure that has no real value. Clinton on the other hand has dismissed economists and experts on the matter as elitists.

Obama on the other hand has gone on record as having voted for something like this during his years in the Illinois legislature and reckoning it was a complete mistake. What does he call it? "This is a strategy to get through the next election".