WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: Rising Gas Prices: All Part of Obama’s Plan? “While this position may be slightly unfair to the President (Mr. Chu was not yet in the Administration at the time he made the remarks, so any link between it and administration policy is tenuous), the quote devastatingly reveals just how tone-deaf and myopic white-collar, progressive intellectualism can be. The delusion that jacking up energy prices is part of a ‘good government’ agenda is one of the pieces of insanity that keeps the blue intelligentsia from consolidating its position as a natural governing class.”