Bachman promises fiscal restraint and moderate gasoline prices. Barack Obama promised “change” and that change turned out to be massive unemployment, a crashing stock market and increasing national debt.
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) vowed last Tuesday that, in her presidency, gasoline prices would fall back to less than $2 per gallon.
Bachmann, speaking to a town-hall meeting in South Carolina, said she would pursue energy policies that send pump prices down to levels not seen since early 2009, at the thick of the U.S.recession.
“Under President Bachmann you will see gasoline come down below $2 per gallon again,” she said in Greenville. “That will happen.”
Bachmann and other GOP White House contenders are calling for much more aggressive U.S. oil drilling — her campaign backs drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and wider offshore production, alleging President Obama has placed too many restrictions on development.
Despite opposition from the majority of Republicans and not a few Democrats, Barack Obama forced through a moratorium on the issuance of new oil leases and offshore drilling. After a ferocious outcry from the public, he retreated from those positions but only after considerable damage was done to U.S oil companies.
Bachmann noted that the average gasoline price was $1.79 per gallon when President Obama took office. Prices soared earlier this year to reach a nationwide average in May of nearly $4 per gallon, and much higher than that in many areas.
Regular gasoline is currently averaging roughly $3.60 per gallon nationwide, the Energy Information Administration reported Monday, and it’s trending downward.
Bachmann’s remarks on gas prices came during a campaign stop in the Palmetto State.
Bachmann lashed out at Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s policymaking actions to increase the money supply, through a process known as quantitative easing.
These policies were what Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) called “almost treasonous,” though Bachmann’s own remarks didn’t go as far.
“All they’re doing is stealing from you,” she said. “You earned this money, you’ve saved this money. And by the time President Obama’s done, your dollar’s lost its value.”
On Feb. 1, 2009, newly elected President Obama told Matt Lauer of the Today Show that:
“Look, I’m at the start of my administration. One nice thing about the situation I find myself in is that I will be held accountable.”
Obama went on to say:
“If I don’t have this done in three years, then there’s going to be a one-term proposition.”
But true to form, he is now doing a tap dance around his previous statements by stating:
“When I said ‘change we can believe in’ I didn’t say ‘change we can believe in tomorrow.’ Not change we can believe in next week. We knew this was going to take time because we’ve got this big, messy, tough democracy and that’s a great thing about America is that there are all these contentious ideas that are out there and we’ve got to make our case.”
So what has the President accomplished in three years?
Instead of improving the economy as he promised, he is solely responsible for the largest increase in federal spending and the largest increase in the national debt than any other president in history.
So, Tea Party’s Michele Bachman or the Democratic Party’s Barack Obama. Who would you like for president in 2013?
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