But Republicans, too, have had their own flights of fancy. Perhaps the strangest is Republicans' claim that President Obama is content with rising gas prices, because they could convince more Americans of the need to wean the country off fossil fuels. The president himself put that assertion in its place in his recent press conference.
“Just from a political perspective, do you think the president of the United States going into reelection wants gas prices to go up higher? Is there anybody here who thinks that makes a lot of sense?”
