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Horse with no Name

(33,956 posts) Tue Mar 6, 2012, 10:06 PM Mar 2012

of the House...it was $3.86.

It is disingenuous for an ousted speaker to compare a POTUS and a Speaker.

But Newt...disingenuous be thy name!

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False equivalence. "When I was speaker...gas was $1.13. It should be "When John Boehner was Speaker (Original Post) Horse with no Name Mar 2012 OP

Have gas prices EVER gone down with each new president? Canuckistanian Mar 2012 #2

(13,200 posts)

1. Newt, gas was only 25 cents a gallon in 1961, how did you fuck up things so badly?

Tue Mar 6, 2012, 10:24 PM

Mar 2012

Geez!

(42,290 posts)

2. Have gas prices EVER gone down with each new president?

Tue Mar 6, 2012, 10:26 PM

Mar 2012

What is that statement supposed to prove?