That is my Plan, Ubama, we can start drilling up your dumb-ass once it is kicked out of our House!
Posted on 02/23/2012 1:38:39 PM PST by SeekAndFind
President Barack Obama on Thursday assailed Republicans for what he described as a flawed and dishonest strategy for reducing gas prices, predicting his rivals would offer nothing but more drilling and political promises of $2-a-gallon gas. Said the president: "The American people aren't stupid."
"That's not a plan, especially since we're already drilling. That's a bumper sticker," Obama said in a stop at the University of Miami. "It's not a strategy to solve our energy challenge. That's a strategy to get politicians through an election. You know there are no quick fixes to this problem."
Obama spoke as gas has reached the highest price at the pump ever for this time of year: an average of $3.58 per gallon. White House advisers see it as a cyclical occurrence but knew Obama had to address the topic, one of deep concern to consumers and growing fodder for Republicans seeking to unseat Obama.
Obama said gas prices were "like a tax straight out of their paychecks." He promoted an energy agenda of oil, gas, wind, solar, nuclear and biofuel energy. And he took aim at Republicans.
"You can bet that since it's an election year, they're already dusting off their three-point plans for $2 gas. I'll save you the suspense: Step one is to drill, step two is to drill, and step three is to keep drilling. ... We've heard the same thing for thirty years. Well, the American people aren't stupid."
Obama insisted there are no short-term solutions to high gas prices, and that anyone suggesting otherwise was not being honest. Still, he sought to offer something to anxious voters by saying he had ordered his administration to search for every possible area to help consumers in the coming months.
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The good news I heard on the local radio after His Escellency’s speech today at UM was some student saying: the green thing sounds good but I am concerned about putting gas in my car TODAY.
Could the worm finally beginning to turn. IMO, hit people in the pocketbook enough and they eventually see the picture. Of course, His Excellency will probably propose some kind of program for the “poor” to get credits for their gasoline expenses.
We tried his “Green Energy” plan and it is an EPIC FAIL!
It looks like the ONLY real plan is for more drilling.
He believes that 51 percent of us are idiots.
obama just isnt a driller...hes a drillee
That's why Obama is reacting so strongly to it--he KNOWS it is a "gut" issue that creates strong emotions, and people ACT on emotions much more quickly than "head" issues.
The Dems have EFFECTIVELY used "gut issues" to get people to vote for them--about time we took a page from their playbook!
Go NEWT!
That is my Plan, Ubama, we can start drilling up your dumb-ass once it is kicked out of our House!
the boy wouldn't know an energy plan if it bit him on the ass...
Bttt.
Obama: I’ll make energy prices “skyrocket”
posted at 1:30 pm on November 2, 2008
by Ed Morrissey
In another clip from the same January 2008 interview with the San Francisco Chronicle in which Barack Obama promised to bankrupt anyone foolish enough to build coal-burning power plants, he also made an interesting admission about his entire energy plan. Obama told the editors that his policies would make energy prices “skyrocket” as the energy industry passed along the exorbitant costs of his cap-and-trade [plan].
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/11/02/obama-ill-make-energy-prices-skyrocket/
Who is this Jackass that he can tell private business how to spend its money?
I'm sure he's got Michelle growing algae in her garden as I type this. YAY, now we will have plenty of fuel in the coming months!
Speaking of bumper stickers, has anyone seen any Obama 2102 bumper stickers lately. I frequently travel in MA and CT and can count the number I have seen on one hand.
Obama has a energy plan, and the plan is to throw money at the wall in the hopes that some magic “green” solution pops out of nowhere.
I am in NYC and don’t see many at all.
Don’t forget nuclear power. Undo Carter’s stupid rule that restricts recycling the waste and get the country back to work.
Oops...I was about to post something VERY similar, but you had it already. Nice.
Nope, we don’t need more centralized socialism. Get rid of the DOE and reign in the EPA. Let states decide local energy policy and individuals and the free market will do the rest.
How about ending all the different gas fuel mixtures while you’re at it?
Gen Y has been groomed to look at motor vehicles as a knife in Gaia’s belly. Hopefully reality will soon disabuse them of that lie. We have to end government schooling and soon.
“0bama 2012” is a bumper sticker, not a plan for the future.
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