Democrats Prepare Assault on Trump Over Rising Gas Prices

[workinclasszero]

It’s an annual tradition. Only this time, the sitting president has insisted that a president has power over the price at the pump.
GIDEON RESNICK SAM STEIN 05.21.18 8:00 PM ET

Democrats are preparing an aggressive assault on the Trump administration in the coming weeks over the cost of rising gas prices nationally.

The campaign will take place from the halls of Congress to outside the Beltway, with committees and lawmakers painting President Donald Trump as having contributed to people’s pain at the pump. Gas prices are up nationally an estimated 56.2 cents over last year’s average and trending upwards.

One Senate Democratic aide said the topic would be a theme in the ramp up to Memorial Day —when families hit the road— and it would be framed around the notion that the rise in prices has wiped away any financial gains that middle-income Americans may have seen from the tax cuts passed by Republicans at the end of 2017. Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee are, additionally, preparing a report on the financial gains accrued by oil and gas companies from that bill as a matter of contrasting it with the rising prices of gas overall.

"Everyone paying higher gas prices, can thank the GOP for the price hike, and every big oil company executive cashing their paycheck can thank the GOP for the tax break,” said Democratic operative Jesse Ferguson, a veteran of the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/democrats-prepare-assault-on-trump-over-rising-gas-prices

[DonCoquixote]

1. this is what we need to focus on

Issues that affect the low info grunts, because they are only able to shamble towards greed and feed.

[pangaia]

2. BUT, repeat and repeat and repeat and repeat.....

numbskulls are very thick.

[rownesheck]

3. I'm afraid

this won't work. Most people understand gas prices go up this time of year and the rubes aren't going to care what president dipshit said in the past. They haven't cared about what he said in the past regarding everything else.

[workinclasszero]

8. Trump totally owned low gas prices

We are going to make him own the high prices too.

Mainly because they are a direct result of his gigantic idiocy!

[beachbum bob]

4. tariffs are still the big thing. oil goes up and down all the time, but tariff wars is new unknown

[dalton99a]

5. Do it.

Whether it works or not, just fucking do it.

[Thunderbeast]

6. Not to mention.....

At the core of progressive's energy strategy is an assumption that fossil fuel prices must rise to cover their true social costs. Alternatives to our carbon fueled economy can not be viable as long as the true life-cycle price of burning fossil fuel is socialized.

Gasoline should cost a lot. Carbon taxes should be levied to fund the transportation and transit infrastructure that MUST replace it.

[workinclasszero]

9. Sure, tell a young couple with kids

trying to pay off student loans and keep food on the table that gas prices need to rise to 10 bucks a gallon.

Or older folks struggling to survive on a social security check every month.

The GOP would just love that to death!

Might as well shut down the Democratic party right now if that was the official policy.

[Ron Green]

10. If the Democratic Party's official policy is to attack Trump over gas prices

and to continue to maintain low fossil fuel costs without demanding true cost accounting, then it’s a party none of us ought to support.

[workinclasszero]

11. No offence but....BS

Trillions for the biggest military on the planet, billions and billions for the filthy rich 1% and wall street but a fucking 2x4 in the nuts for the 99% huh?

F that IMO.

[kimbutgar]

7. And don't forget the rising prices of food

By going after undocumented immigrants a lot of produce is not getting picked. I paid 7.99 recently for 18oz if blueberries which I usually paid 3.99 for the same amount. Every week when I buy my produce I see the slowly creeping prices go up it’s been 10 cents more a pound for some items.