Statement from Florida Representative Allen West:
President Obama is …very adept at promulgating deceptive language masquerading as policy, actually just insidious political gimmickry. This “tax policy” is an example as well as today’s speech on his “energy policy” shall be. Here is the bottom line, last night it took 70 dollars to fill the tank of my 2008 H3 Hummer…
Just how much more are Americans supposed to put up with?
February 26th, 2012 at 4:36PM
Oh my Hummer’s become a bad bummer,
And I place all the blame on Obama.
To fill the gas tank,
It now breaks the bank.
So I’m stuck where I am, getting glummer.
February 26th, 2012 at 6:08PM
You mean angry and political like candidate Obama in 2008?
http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/obama-2008-ads-focused-on-gas-prices
February 27th, 2012 at 3:09AM
I don’t see why anyone who could afford a Hummer would buy one, but I doubt that was the point of the post. Sometimes the points of UD’s posts are obscure, but in this case the point was probably that he wouldn’t have had to spend $70 to fill up his car if instead of driving a Hummer, he drove a Yugo.
February 27th, 2012 at 12:29PM
The point of the post is obscure? Allen West wasn’t joking when he described Obama’s energy policy as political gimmickry while at the same time whining about how much it costs to fill up the tank of his Hummer, the very existence of which explains why we have an energy crisis in the first place.
February 27th, 2012 at 2:26PM
West’s being redistricted out of a job pretty soon.
February 27th, 2012 at 2:46PM
He should open a gas station.
February 28th, 2012 at 3:25AM
Kelly,
Yup. It went right over my head.
I’m lucky if I see one Hummer a week on the streets. So, silly me, I had no idea that UD meant that the reason that gas prices have risen so much was the sudden influx of Hummers in the past month or so that needed to be filled up. If left to my own devices, I would have thought that it was due to supply and demand, and that what West was saying was that maybe Obama’s policies had something to do with the supply.
That’s why it wouldn’t hurt if UD explained things better. Some of us don’t catch the unstated assumptions and nuances.