Via Ed Driscoll, via PJ Tatler: Obama in 2011 explaining what he’s going to do to lower gas prices:
Continue reading The campaign ad that Obama cut for us in 2011 (RNC, Team Romney, take note).
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NYT’s Richard Thaler savagely attacks Barack Obama.
I know, I’m as shocked as you are: but that’s what happened. You see, Richard Thaler was trying to push back on the entire steadily-rising gas price thing (four bucks a gallon, if you’re lucky), and so in an op-ed today for the New York Times Thaler authoritatively declared:
Here is a one-item test to see whether you are guilty of cloudy thinking about gas prices: Do you believe that they are something a president can control? Many Americans believe that the answer is yes, but any respectable economist will tell you that the answer is no.
Meet the not-respectable economist Barack Obama:
Continue reading NYT’s Richard Thaler savagely attacks Barack Obama.
Barack Obama denounces himself over gas price attack ads.
Obama apparently doesn’t believe anything that *he* says, either.
Statement (Via Jim Geraghty’s Morning Jolt):
“Every time prices start to go up – especially in an election year – politicians dust off their three-point plans for $2 gasoline. They head down to the pump, make sure a few cameras are following them, and start acting like they can wave a magic wand and you’ll have cheap gas forever. Sound familiar?” Obama said.
Oddly enough, Mr. President… it does.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Ka_tjPLJwVI Continue reading Barack Obama denounces himself over gas price attack ads.
Barack Obama and the negative decrease of gas prices since 2008.
By their fruit you shall recognize them*.
Via Hot Air comes this rather-embarrassing 2008 Obama campaign video that’s simply too good – and by ‘good’ I mean ‘humiliating to the Obama administration’ – not to share. Here you go:
Hear that? When elected, Barack Obama promised to do something about those awful THREE DOLLAR AND FIFTY CENT A GALLON gas prices! Because of all those awful OIL COMPANIES! Wasn’t that nice of him? Continue reading Barack Obama and the negative decrease of gas prices since 2008.
Wish we were back there, huh?
A picture originally via comments here says it all:
I know that I’ve seen the comment that I’m about to make associated with a photo like this before, so this insight is not original to me: still, damn but look at those gas prices.
Sixty bucks for gas and Mickey Dee’s.
More accurately: $61.49, but that does not flow off the tongue as well.
Permit me to establish some general, life-experience-style benchmarks for our current domestic economy. This morning, I went out to fill up the gas tank of the car, and treat my kids to some fast-food breakfast. Nothing fancy: the car does not take premium gasoline, and we’re talking breakfast sandwiches and a hotcakes and sausage level of drive-through. Here are the receipts.
SIXTY DOLLARS. Continue reading Sixty bucks for gas and Mickey Dee’s.