Obama Wrongfully Blaming the Republicans Again...If He Could ONLY Tell the Truth!

I've come to learn when Obama blames someone else for a problem, it's most likely his fault....

GOP Hits Back After Obama Blames Congress for High Gas Prices

"11 percent"

-- Reduction in oil production on federally controlled lands in the previous fiscal year according to the free-market Institute for Energy Research.

The gas wars in Washington will continue unabated today as Republicans push hard on President Obama following his effort in a campaign speech in Florida to put the blame on them for blocking his plan for energy independence.

In his speech, Obama said that while he favored increased domestic production of some fossil fuels, he believed that higher taxes on producers were imperative in order to finance federal subsidies for green energy initiatives.

Snatching the "all of the above" slogan from Republicans, Obama has been campaigning on the idea that Republicans are beholden to oil companies while he is interested in having the government use oil profits to develop everything from windmills to ethanol from algae.

Obama has struggled to balance his own environmental goals and the demands of his political base with mounting anger among voters about rapidly rising fuel prices. The straddle has always been a difficult one for Obama who ran on a platform that included aggressive environmental action, but has frequently bowed to mainstream pressure to withhold planned restrictions on the existing energy sector.

For example, when Obama closed off much of the U.S. coast to drilling, he expanded the portions of existing exploration fields open to producers. Obama also was forced to spike aggressive penalties for power companies blamed by environmentalists who believe the planet is growing dangerously warm, but compensated by imposing tough clear air standards that will still shutter many of the same power plants.

The recent rise in gas prices, fueled in large part by deepening unrest in the Middle East, comes at an inconvenient time for Obama who only recently nixed a plan for a massive pipeline to bring Canadian oil to U.S. refineries. The Keystone XL project is hugely popular in surveys, but anathema to environmentalists who believe cheap gasoline is a danger to the planet's climate.

Obma has been relentlessly disciplined in his campaign message since his Labor Day kickoff, casting almost every problem facing the nation as in some way the result of Republican closed-mindedness, corruption or unpatriotic partisanship. And so he is on gasoline prices, saying that if Republicans would have allowed new taxes and spending, energy prices would be heading the right direction.

To bolster his argument that it is Republicans, not him, who are being rigid, Obama has often cited recent increases in domestic oil production. Republicans today, though, are pushing back on the notion, touting statistics that show contraction in oil and gas production on federal lands, the place where the White House can determine the pace.

The GOP is also blaming Obama specifically for higher gas prices suggesting that price spikes have often followed Obama policy decisions.

"He is a speculator's dream," a Republican strategist who advises House leaders told Power Play. "They know he will constrict supply and provide reliable price increases that they can profit from."