Man, they're desperate. With the Dow above 13K and unemployment comfortably below 9, all they've got left is the pump price.
And they're pushing it like unneeded tire rotation when a Prius pulls up. Armed with their "Pundit Prep" memo, the 'Pubs and their media minions are doing their damnedest to blame the high price of gasoline on the president.
Like Barack Obama's the dude who wears the big, bright Texaco star.
The problem for the 'Pubs with this one is not that it isn't true; it's that too many people know that.
Last night, America's new Cronkite mocked the GOP and their Foxy Friends' attempt to link Obama to the price of gasoline, introducing millions to the "Pundit Prep" memo. Half an hour later, the truthinessest man in television followed suit.
Heck, last Sunday, even George Will called the issue--and the 'Pubs' efforts--"preposterous."
But the GOP isn't going to give up on this meme, and neither will their media pals, which opens up a marvelous opportunity.
Now is the time to push back, and that right hard. Post the Stewart and Colbert clips. Scribble your LTEs. Speak up at the water cooler. The "Obama-the-gas-hiker" meme is weak, weak, weak and slapping it down is really easy, especially with the right's own "intellectuals" doing the slapping. Always nice to have the truth--and truthiness--on your side, too.
I did my little part the other day, good enough to land in the Times-Pic this morning. Putting my mouth where my mouth is, as it were.
Because something tells me this is a golden moment, an opportunity to not only push back against a single lie about the president, but a chance to diminish the power of a great source of lies.
Americans, like all people, hate to feel stupid. (The fact that far too many of them are is not the point; nobody hates to be thought of as stupid).
This is a chance to make them feel stupid for repeating what they hear on
FOX News, and to make them hate FOX News and the GOP for making them want to.
And that thought makes my motor purr like a kitten.