CNN Neuters Obama
Now is the time at Ed Driscoll.com when we juxtapose!
Washington (CNN) – President Barack Obama confronted two political realities this week:
– Rising gas prices are bad for a politician’s poll numbers
– There is almost nothing a politician can do about it, at least in the short run.
Take a look at this chart compiled by metalprices.com. It’s the price of a barrel of crude oil over the past 5 years.
See that big peak in the middle? That was the last oil spike, in the summer of 2008. Notice how the price hit a high point, then fell off a cliff afterward?
The day corresponding to that peak, an all-time high of $145.16/barrel, was July 14, 2008. By some strange coincidence, that was the very same day then-President George W. Bush lifted, by executive order, a federal ban on offshore oil drilling.
Read the whole thing. Buying Avery labels afterward is optional.
Incidentally, it’s got to be quite a comedown from having a rare combination of enough chutzpah and imaginary messianic power to say with a straight face, “This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal,” to being told less than three years later by CNN that “There is almost nothing a politician can do about it at least in the short run.” Perhaps it explains why Obama has been, as Al Gore would say, so snippy recently.
(CNN quote found via Big Journalism, concept via SDA.)
Related: “Another Drilling Halt: Your Taxpayer-Funded Regulators at Work for You.”
Nothing a Prez can do about it in the short-run? Really? Do these guys not understand that commodities prices is about the FUTURE? Libya goes into convulsions, and prices go up, because it MAY reduce oil production. Drilling gets allowed, and prices go down, because production MAY go up.
Why do people listen to these ignorami?
The above article contained a great link (Buying Avery labels afterward is optional) to printable posters that can be affixed to gas pumps every time you refill your gas. I promise to paste one of these at every gas station I use until my supply runs out.
I’ve blogged this HERE, along with my own suggestions.
Based on a lifetime of letting others do the heavy lifting, disappearing to exotic places and leafy golf courses when things get hot, and a penchant for voting “present” on nearly every issue of importance…it’s a bit surprising they found something to neuter.
Funny how when gas prices rose under Bush, I didn’t hear any NYT collumnists, or dem politicians, talking about how the prez couldn’t do anything about it. All we heard was “when will Bush do something about the high gas prices”. And, as this article states, Bush DID do something about it, by allowing more drilling, and it worked.
Another example of leftist lies and hipocracy, applying lenient standards to Obama that would never have been applied to Bush.