Mitch Daniels’s unfounded claim: President Obama wanted higher gas prices

[Swede]

Daniels, with his long experience in government at the federal and state level, is grasping at straws by suggesting that ideas advocated by officials before they enter an administration have now become the policy of that administration. As the former White House budget director well knows, individual ideas rarely survive the brutal policy-making process, and ultimately officials must support whatever the president decides.

Chu and Salazar may have expressed certain policy views before they joined the administration, but they now work for Obama. What counts is the current policy. We can find no evidence that the president has “a conscious policy” to double gasoline prices


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[rurallib]

1. I do not know why Republicans look at this guy as a savior

he is every bit as dumb as the rest. Look at his job as Bushco budget guy for proof.

[provis99]

2. Mitch Daniels is a bizarre little man.

He's like John Sununu without the charisma.

[jwirr]

3. Oh, sure he is going to lose the election because the prices stay too high but he wanted them to

go up. Is there any logic in that?