Cabinet Takes on Gas Prices

President Bush called the members of his Cabinet to the White House Wednesday. They had a "good" meeting, he reported afterward. "We discussed the challenges facing our economy, amongst other things, and we spent time on the high gasoline prices."

Really?

The secretaries of, say Education, Housing and Urban Development and Health and Human Services were asked to weigh in on the price of gas? I realize that Cabinet meetings are basically a formality at this stage, but passing this one off as a substantive discussion of how to ease Americans' pain at the pump struck me as kind of funny.