Not that a contest for dumb comments by politicians wouldn't bring in a lot of good entries, but Rep. Ed Markey D-Mass jumps out in the lead in this analysis of talk of extending Daylight Savings Time a month in each direction as part of an energy bill:

"The more daylight we have, the less electricity we use," said Markey

I'm very curious to hear how the two-month extension of DST will actually create MORE daylight.  Congress indeed has many powers, but altering the rotation of the earth or its angle to the sun are not, last I checked, among them.  Markey has clearly never heard the joke about daylight savings being akin to cutting six inches off the end of a blanket and sewing it on the other end in order to make it longer.

And, yes, I know what he meant was something like "more light at times of the day when more people are up and about."  Even so, what this extension of DST would mean for me here in the North Country is November sunrises at around 815am, and sunrises as late as 900am in western parts of the Eastern Time zone. No thanks.