{"id":16441,"date":"2012-02-27T17:38:42","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T17:38:42","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-02-27T17:38:42","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T17:38:42","slug":"the_democrat_gas_hypocrisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/02\/27\/the_democrat_gas_hypocrisy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Democrat Gas Hypocrisy"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Michael Janofsky at the New York Times, April 24th, 2006, about six years ago: “Democrats Eager to Exploit Anger Over Gas Prices.” This is back in 2006. The Democrats were running for office in the midterm elections trying to talk us into a recession. This is after they had failed at trying to talk us into failure in Iraq. “Democrats running for Congress are moving quickly to use the most recent surge in oil and gasoline prices to bash Republicans over energy policy, and more broadly, the direction of the country. With oil prices hitting a high this week and prices at the pump topping $3 a gallon in many places…” We\u2019re now over $5 in California. In 2006, with “prices at the pump topping $3 a gallon in many places Amy Klobuchar, a Democratic Senate candidate in Minnesota, is making the issue the centerpiece of her campaign. Ms. Klobuchar says it ‘is one of the first things people bring up\u2019 at her campaign stops. To varying degrees, Democrats around the country are following a similar script that touches on economic anxiety and populist resentment against oil companies.”<\/p>\n

Yep!<\/p>\n

“‘It\u2019s a metaphor for an economy that keeps biting people despite overall good numbers,\u2019 said Senator Charles E. Schumer of New York…” What else do we have, Chuck-U? Oh, Chuck-U is in the news today, folks. Chuck-U tells Clinton to pressure Saudi Arabia to pump more oil. Senator Chuck-U Schumer “wants Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to press…” She\u2019s got her own section in the program today<\/a> for her own rampant hypocrisy. (We\u2019ll get to that in due course.) Chuck-U Schumer “wants Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to press Saudi Arabia to boost output as rising prices are hitting consumer at the gasoline pump.” Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!<\/p>\n

Wait a minute. More oil? Chuck-U wants more oil? Is that what he\u2019s asking the Saudis to do, pump more oil? Is that right? Is that what that means? Senator Schumer tells Clinton to pressure Saudis to pump more oil? He wants more oil? Then how come this regime vetoes the Keystone pipeline and has a drilling moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico and makes fun of\/mocks the concept of producing more oil in the United States? So Senator Chuck-U Schumer is asking Senator Clinton to make us more dependent on foreign oil! That\u2019s what he\u2019s doing when he\u2019s asking her to pressure the Saudis, pump more oil. He wants us to be more dependent. He doesn\u2019t want to use our own oil. Obama doesn\u2019t want to use our own oil.<\/line><\/p>\n

How come Chuck-U is not out there saying, “Everybody go buy a Volt?” How come Chuck-U\u2019s not saying, “Hey, everybody go buy a Prius, go buy a hybrid”? How come Chuck-U\u2019s not out there saying, “Get your tire gauge out and make sure the pressure is right and get a tune-up”? That\u2019s what Obama does. So the Democrats want more oil. They want the price to come down with more supply. Funny how that never works domestically. So 2006, New York Times: “Democrats Eager to Exploit Anger Over Gas Prices” — at $3 a gallon. From BigGovernment.com Wynton Hall with the story: “Seven Gas Facts Obama Cannot Escape — “1. In September 2008, Barack Obama\u00c2\u2019s ‘Nobel-prize winning physicist\u2019 of an Energy Secretary, Steven Chu, told the Wall Street Journal: ‘Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe,'” which is much higher than what we pay. Obama has said he wants high prices. Why don\u2019t these guys come out and say, “This is exactly what we want”? Steven Chu, the energy secretary, Nobel-prize winning physicist has advocated for higher prices. So has Obama. Now they\u2019re getting higher prices. You know why? They want higher prices so you\u2019ll have to go out and buy a Volt or a hybrid or get on a bus or get on a subway or take mass transit and become like a number. A robot. An interchangeable part of the system, like a Chinese citizen taking orders and dictates from the state and their command-and-control economy.<\/p>\n

The truth is, they want higher prices. The problem is it\u2019s an election year. Can\u2019t advocate for higher gas prices in an election year. “2. In 2008, then-candidate Barack Obama admitted that, like his future Energy Secretary Mr. Chu, he believed that high gas prices would be a good thing because they would force Americans to ween [sic] themselves off of oil, but that he would have ‘prefered [sic] a gradual adjustment.'” We had the sound bite last week. We reminded you of it when gasoline hit four bucks and Obama said: It\u2019s okay; it\u2019s okay. I\u2019m just a little upset how fast it got there. “3. On January 19, 2009, the day before Barack Obama [immaculated] gas prices were $1.84 a gallon. As of February 20, 2012 a gallon of gas cost $3.59,” and now it\u2019s close to $5 a gallon. And don\u2019t forget, in 2006 it was $3 a gallon, and the Democrats are out exploiting it and trying to turn it into a big political issue. “4. As Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson points out, ‘Offshore drilling permits are being issued at less than half the rate of the previous administration. The average number of leases issued on public lands is less than half than during President Clinton\u00c2\u2019s term.\u2019 5. In 2008, Barack Obama seemed perfectly comfortable with soaring energy prices if they meant curbing greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n

“As Mr. Obama confessed: ‘Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.'” In their hearts and minds, Obama and the left are LOVING gas prices go up. They just can\u2019t say so. But they love it. And that\u2019s why there\u2019s not a huge effort to bring them down. There\u2019s a huge effort to make you think they want to, but how many stories have you seen where Obama says, “Ah, there\u2019s really not a whole lot the president can do”? And Jay Carney says, “Well, there\u2019s not a whole lot the president can do.” In 2006, don\u2019t forget, Chuck Schumer and John F. Kerry (who, by the way, served in Vietnam) were mocking Bush for asking the Saudis to pump more oil! Arabs producing more oil makes prices go down, but somehow the US pumping more oil won\u2019t make any difference.<\/line><\/p>\n

That\u2019s what they tell us. “Nah-nah-nah. That\u2019s the stupidest thing we ever heard of! That\u2019s a tired, worn-out cliche. ‘Drill, drill, drill,\u2019 and for 30 years they\u2019ve been saying that. That\u2019s what the Republicans always say. Just drill, drill. That\u2019s gonna take us two to three years!” Well, where would we be if 30 years ago we had just started drilling, drilling, drilling? Chuck-U Schumer in 2008: “Schumer to Bush: Stop ‘Coddling\u2019 Big Oil, Saudis,” and get on \u2019em and make \u2019em pump more. And Chuck-U wants Hillary to do the same thing now. Obama, he can lower the sea level but he can\u2019t lower the price of oil. “7. Try as he might, President Obama\u00c2\u2019s campaign will try to distance themselves from the fact that a central pillar of Mr. Obama\u2019s 2008 campaign was a pledge to reduce the ‘pain at the pump\u2019 caused by high gas prices.”<\/p>\n

We can go back and we can get all of that audio that was a centerpiece of his campaign, a pillar, to reduce pain at the pump. But missing no opportunity to invoke class warfare, Obama said, “For the well-off in this country, high gas prices are mostly an annoyance, but to most Americans they\u2019re a huge problem, bordering on a crisis. Here in Indiana gas costs $3.60 a gallon,” he said in 2008. Now it\u2019s 2012, we\u2019re over $5 a gallon, and there\u2019s not much we can do about it. <\/p>\n

And from MSNBC: “8 Reasons Why Gas Will Hit $5 a Gallon This Year.” I\u2019ll just read through them. Not gonna give you details. Number one, Strait of Hormuz. Number two, Iran. Number three, refiners raising prices. Number four, other geopolitical risks. Number five, the European Union may save itself. Number six, the US economic recovery means higher oil prices. Number seven, summertime. Number eight, supply risk. In all eight of these reasons, not one of them mention Obama or his energy policies. So we have every effort in the world being made to shield Obama from any relationship to high gasoline prices, despite what the Democrats did all during \u201905, \u201906, \u201907, and \u201908. We even have some Republicans now saying, “We really don\u2019t want to try to tie the president to this, market forces no president can control.” <\/p>\n

We said back in 2006 there\u2019s nothing Bush can do about it. The president does not have a magic wand. Releasing from the strategic reserves doesn\u2019t make a significant long-term difference in the price of oil. And people who said that back then want us to say something consistent now. “Well, come on, let\u2019s not jump on Obama for this. We all know honestly that presidents can\u2019t do anything about it.” Bush was not choking the supply, however. Obama is. Obama is a factor in the price of gasoline. See, that\u2019s the difference, Obama is a factor in the price of oil. Obama wants higher oil prices, his energy secretary and he have both said so. They want higher oil prices. This is not making it up. They want higher oil prices. It\u2019s less freedom. It\u2019s less mobility. It forces you into alternative buying decisions when it\u2019s time to get a new car. So, Obama does have something to do with high oil prices.<\/line><\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

Eric in Glen Arbor, Michigan, you\u2019re next on the Rush Limbaugh program. Hello, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Longtime listener from the early Clinton years.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: The reason why I\u2019m calling is about the oil prices and what we\u2019re paying at the pump. Lots of news about it, and if we go to five-, six-dollar-a-gallon oil, that\u2019s gonna sink the economy, and I think it\u2019s time to fight back, and I think we can fight back by several perspectives. One, we, as a consumer, can cut back slightly on our fuel usage. And, two, instead of just releasing 30 million barrels of oil from the strategic energy reserves, we need to do it in a strategic manner. For example, release seven million barrels of oil at, say, $89 a barrel. It\u2019s about 109 bucks a barrel today. Release it at below the market price and then make several subsequent releases without telling anybody —<\/p>\n

RUSH: There\u2019s not enough oil there to make any difference. The real question is what is the price of algae<\/a> by the gallon, because Obama has suggested pond scum<\/a> as the next alternative fuel for oil. We cannot, by the way, and I appreciate the big-heartedness here in wanting to conserve, but there\u2019s gonna be forced conservation at five dollars a gallon. There was a four. People will drive less because they can\u2019t afford it. By the way, the economy\u2019s already sinking. But you get to five or six dollars a gallon, the choice to conserve will not be something you have to force on people, it\u2019ll be happening naturally. But even at that, conserving is not growth, and growth is what our economy needs. Growth and supply, growth in expansion, demand, all these things, that\u2019s what this country and this economy needs. We can\u2019t conserve our way to growth of anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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