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As gas prices soar above $4 a gallon, GOP presidential contender Newt Gingrich on Saturday accused President Barack Obama of deliberately allowing oil prices to spike as a way to "punish" Americans for driving big cars. In a 48-minute lunchtime speech at the state Republican Party spring convention at the glitzy San Francisco Airport Hyatt Regency, the former House speaker countered -- point by point -- a speech Obama made last week in New York. And Gingrich reprised a similar refrain of four years ago to "drill, drill, drill." "This is deliberate strategy of the left to punish the American...

President Barack Obama says there is no easy answer to the problem of rising energy prices and he's dismissing Republican solutions as little more than gimmicks. "We know there's no silver bullet that will bring down gas prices or reduce our dependence on foreign oil overnight," Obama said Saturday in his weekly radio and Internet address. "But what we can do is get our priorities straight and make a sustained, serious effort to tackle this problem." Oil prices are approaching last year's highs as tensions increase over Iran's nuclear program. The rise pushed gasoline prices Friday to a national average...

Nothing new here. Remember, O’s very first campaign ad of the year was also aimed at the Kochs. Until the GOP chooses a nominee, the Emmanuel Goldstein brothers will have to do as the designated root of all political evil. Look at it from Obama’s perspective: What’s more likely to get a shrieking leftist to open his wallet, some perfunctory grumbling about Mitt “Meh” Romney or a dire new warning about just how far the Kochtopus’s tentacles extend? The title of the fundraising e-mail, no joke: “They’re obsessed.” In just about 24 hours, Mitt Romney is headed to a hotel...

Newt Gingrich is asserting that President Barack Obama pursues an “outrageously anti-American’’ energy policy that snubs the Keystone oil pipeline and puts too much stock in electric car technology to wean the country from foreign oil dependency.

In a blistering election year attack on his political foes, President Barack Obama charged Thursday that Republicans are "licking their chops" over painfully high gas prices that threaten the fragile economic recovery. "Only in politics do people root for bad news and they greet bad news so enthusiastically," he said in a combative speech at the University of Miami. "You pay more, and they're licking their chops." The defiant rhetoric came after days in which the White House has worked to get off the defensive over high gasoline prices, insisting that Obama has done everything he can to bring those...