Global Warming Causes Amnesia

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PjMedia:

Why not? It causes everything else, even including Seinfeld-style shrinkage. How else to explain the strange memory loss amongst Democrats who pummeled President Bush over high energy prices in the last years of his term (when they controlled both houses of Congress) and are now surprised at the “unexpected” (as the MSM would say) pounding the GOP is giving them over high gas prices?

Back in April of 2006, the New York Times, the left’s official house organ, reported, “Democrats Eager to Exploit Anger Over Gas Prices:”

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, 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” 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.

How soon they forget! Nina Totenberg of NPR is now defending Obama from rising gas prices, and claims: “Politicians don’t control this.” This past week at the Washington Free Beacon similarly finds video of Debbie Downer’s “Gassy Rhetoric:”

President Obama and his Democratic allies have responded to rising gas prices by insisting there is little, if anything, the administration can do to bring them down.

Obama told students in Miami on Thursday that there is “no silver bullet” when it comes to lowering gas prices. The White House press secretary told reporters this week there are no “magic solutions.”

But Democrats haven’t always been so consistent in their message. In fact, one prominent Democrat argued in 2005 that President Bush and Republicans were directly to blame for high gas prices.

Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D., Fla.), then a freshman member of Congress, complained on the House floor about the prospect of paying “more than three dollars a gallon” for gas “for the foreseeable future, if not forever.”

Based on the current prices here in California, three dollars a gallon is looking pretty good right now.

Next, ABC gets all wee-wee-ed up, as President Obama would say, over Newt Gingrich having a bit of sport with Mr. Obama’s algae obsessions:

On Thursday night, Gingrich mocked the president’s speech in front of an Idaho crowd, by suggesting that he should take a bottle of algae with him and “go around and we can have the Obama solution.”

“And maybe what we ought to do at Newt.org is we ought to get t-shirts that say ‘You choose.’ Gingrich went on to suggest the slogans, ‘You have Newt: Drill here, Drill Now, Pay Less. You have Obama: Have Algae, Pay More, Be Weird.”