We've cringed quite a bit over the past few weeks while watching John McCain and Hillary Clinton take political pandering to a new level with their gas tax holiday proposal. Now, thanks to the folks at Greater Greater Washington and Gas Tax Scam, we can laugh at one of the best political parodies we've read in ages:

CONFIDENTIAL/URGENT POLITICAL PROPOSAL

Dear Sir:

First we must solicit your confidence in this issue. This is by virtue as being utterly confidential and "top secret".

We are SENATOR HILLARY CLINTON, the wife of the former United States head of state, PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON, and also SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN, friend and associate of current head of state PRESIDENT GEORGE W BUSH. We got your contact through business inquiries as we were searching for contacts of a citizen who can help save our and our family's political careers since our country has been frustrating us.

We are top officials of the United States Senate Government who are interested in importation of oil into our country with funds that are presently trapped in the FEDERAL TRANSPORTATION TRUST FUND dedicated to improving transportation. We wish to send this money to overseas accounts in the MIDDLE EAST but cannot due to restrictions in Congress Transportation Equity Act requiring that this money must be spent to build roads, bridges and high speed trains.

You can read the rest of the letter here. It only gets better.

The letter is of course modeled off the Nigerian 401 scams, which still manage to find their way into our junk e-mail from time to time.

We'll be interested to see whether exit polls in Indiana and North Carolina tomorrow indicate that this issue affected voters, especially given the verbal lashings Clinton has received over the past week. Meanwhile, Obama stepped up his attacks on the plan during a one-hour Meet The Press interview yesterday.

At the very least, we expect the positives from Obama's refusal to stoop low on this issue to offset any support he may have lost this week from the Rev. Wright fallout.