Jacob Weisberg in Slate:

Few topics seem to addle the collective brain of Washington like high gas prices. Politicians who raise this issue can generally be assumed to be partisan, cynical, demagogic, and dishonest. But one must not discount the possibility that something about the subject actually makes them stupid.

Weisberg is spot on--at least for this part of his column. The standards for pols are appropriately low, but nothing brings out their foolishness like high gas prices.