Even the MSM are apprehensive that gas prices will become an issue.
Saturday on
Meet the Press, David Gregory tried to provide pre-emptive cover for Obama with this editorialized comment to Rep. Cantor regarding gas prices:
MR. GREGORY: And part of that, of course, I wonder as a, as a leader in the Congress, if you would counsel Republicans running for president not to use gas prices as a political club against the president when it really is a failure of leadership, is it not, on the part of Republicans and Democrats going back decades here, to fail to achieve energy independence and then be subject to the winds of--whims, rather, of instability in the Middle East that makes gas prices go up and down.
MSM will do all they can to provide cover for Obama. That is most of the reason for all the flapping over contraceptives and Fluke -- to distract attention away from joblessness, the economy, and other 'real' issues.
it really is a failure of leadership, is it not, on the part of Republicans and Democrats going back decades here, to fail to achieve energy independence and then be subject to the winds of--whims, rather, of instability in the Middle East that makes gas prices go up and down.Cantor should have answered along the lines of:
"Well, Mr. Gregory, that is most unfair, because even if we did not import--nay, even if we had a domestic surplus to export--the price per barrel, and so pump prices, would still fluctuate on Middle East unrest because oil is an international commodity. That means, Mr. Gregory, that the international market would still determine the price, even if we did not need to import a single drop of foreign oil."