Saturday, March 17, 2012

Surprise: Bush backs Keystone pipeline

Surprise: Bush backs Keystone pipeline

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2012 Elections

Friday, Mar 16, 2012 6:09 PM Central Daylight Time

Surprise: Bush backs Keystone pipeline

As the GOP gets desperate to blame higher gas prices on Obama, their role as the Gas and Oil Party becomes clearer

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George W. Bush
Former president George W. Bush  (Credit: AP/Tony Gutierrez)

Unemployment is down, consumer confidence is up, the GOP is waging a crazy, unpopular jihad against contraception, and its presidential candidates get less popular as the primary season continues. So blaming President Obama for rising gas prices has become the party’s new strategy.

The problem is, there’s nothing any president can do to make gas prices go down, and Mitt Romney, at least, admitted as much on Fox today. That won’t stop him and his rivals from dishonestly insisting the president is to blame. They continue to insist that the president’s refusal to drill for oil on every square inch of land or sea that may harbor it, and to green light the environmentally disastrous and economically questionable Keystone XL pipeline, is to blame for the pain at the pump.

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