The "Gas Tax Holiday Rebate" is a proposal floated by Senate Republicans that would cut low and middle income tax payers a $100 check, to buy gas presumably.

As Martin Wolk reported on msnbc.com: "It could be one of the dumbest ideas of the year," said Jerry Taylor, a senior fellow at the conservative Cato Institute. "I haven't looked at all of the ideas yet, but it's got to be right up there."

Aside from the C-Note, the GOP plan would also allow oil drilling in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge. Those Republicans sure are sneaky. They haven't been able to pass their ANWR measures in the past, but hey, if they add a provision giving everyone 100 bucks... who could vote against that!

As if $100 will magically cure everybody's gas woes. That would buy (generously) three tanks of gas for the average car at today's prices. For average-sized SUV's, you'd get about two. Then what? Do we get another check? Rather than proposing silly, stop-gap measures, why not the use estimated $10 billion this gas rebate would cost and use it to seriously develop alternative fuels? Or suspend car makers' tax breaks until they improve mileage standards?

In short, it's time for The Decider to step up and make some decisions. Ones that will truly benefit normal working Americans, not just his big business buddies.