As Republican presidential candidates toss barbs at Barack Obama over expensive gasoline, the U.S. president and his team are going on the offensive with a strategy to divert blame and prepare voters for higher costs.
His strategy is both politically- and policy-oriented. The president wants to advance his plans to increase renewable energy sources and reduce U.S. reliance on foreign oil.
I'd change 'strategy' to 'tactic', 'prepare' to 'condition', 'plan' to 'rhetoric' and 'foreign' to, well, 'any'! Republicans have been pushing Obama to stop cowtowing to his eco-statist base for how long now? But the man refuses to pursue domestic drilling, now or later, to relieve our energy burdens while these supposed alternatives materialize from his...you know where. Levin comments on yet another one of Obama's taxpayer subsidized piggybacked stops down in Florida on Thursday, where he continues to twist the logic.
"He has driven up the price of fuel, then he sides with the people, us, who have to pay the higher prices (and they're going much higher by the way), as if he's one of us, as if he's a victim of something going on out there; then he attacks, as you'll see, the Republicans for politicizing it. So in other words, when you point out that his policies are driving up the price of fuel and creating energy dislocation, and that it has a direct impact on the consumer, and I myself have said this is a tax in essence. It's unnecessary, but Obama's policies have brought us here. So now I am 'political', while he stands with the driver. This is the way of the demagogue...he lies."
How peculiar it is when the shoe is on the statist's foot. Didn't the Dems rail against Bush for $3/gal gas? Oh yeah...thanks to BuzzFeed, MRCtv and Weasel Zippers for these reminders...
Which one's the bobblehead again? Eh, no matter.
That was 2007...now look who Nancy's still blaming, via The Hill.
The Great Obama vows to “double down” on green energy spending, and as CNSNews reports, "would do what he could even without Congress" (sound familiar) to subsidize more venture socialism that will inevitably result in more of what Levin points out with what we've got thus far from those magnificent wind and solar investments, "crony capitalism, campaign bundlers who made a fortune and then broke the companies..."
Meanwhile, gas prices run up with no end in site, nor a plan...except more empty rhetoric, blaming Republicans (who want to switch to domestic drilling, while developing additional sources), blaming Mid-East turmoils (that's always ongoing), blame anybody, anything, but his own destructive policies. Harper must be shaking his head, while Hu Jintao lets out a slight chuckle.
