According to Fox News, Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour pointed an accusatory finger at the White House's energy policies today, putting his dissatisfaction on the record in statements issued both before and after President Obama's press conference.
Then House Speaker, John Boehner, blasted the White House Thursday while announcing a GOP initiative focused on more domestic energy production, saying "The Obama administration has consistently blocked American energy production that would lower costs and create jobs in our country. They've canceled new leases for exploration, jeopardized our nuclear energy industry, and imposed a de facto moratorium on future drilling in our country. They've even pushed a cap-and-trade energy tax that the president himself admitted would cause the price of energy to skyrocket."
But what intrigued me most about the article and the comments was the reporter also wrote that "Although his stance is not new, the timing of Barbour's critique is in sync with a growing chorus of Republicans who are tying the president's energy strategy to prices at the pump."
If that's really true, my question is: Where have these Republican politicians been for the last two years? The Democrats, and now particularly the president himself, have been trying to minimize domestic oil production every chance they get. Particularly because the "anti-everything productives" make up such a huge part of their base, their stance against drilling certainly isn't news.
But, beyond that, how can people supposedly good for our country and who insist they're doing their best on our behalf's, suddenly wake up and realize that refusal to permit domestic production significantly increases the price of fuel? I think even most grade school drop-outs know that.
So, I guess it's good for the politicians that they have jobs where intellect doesn't matter, because if they had go into the real world to look for work, the long-term unemployed rate would go through the roof.
That's it for today folks.
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