For those who didn’t see it, OpinionJournal.com posted a killer Saturday editorial on gas taxes. Transportation Chairman James Oberstar (D-Minn.), former Chairman Don Young (R-Alaska), and other lawmakers are demanding a hike in gas taxes for infrastructure repairs after the bridge collapse in Minnesota:

As it happens, these are the same men who played the lead role in the $286 billion 2005 federal highway bill. That’s the bill that diverted billions of dollars of gas tax money away from urgent road and bridge projects toward Member earmarks for bike paths, nature trails and inefficient urban transit systems.

There’s no better way of putting it. Meanwhile, Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) does himself no favors by playing Hamlet with tax-hikes (it would be his second attempted tax-hike, after the first was struck down in court). But he must still feel some pressure as he deals with his congressional delegation’s most powerful member.