> But the Republicans who’ve pushed this line are playing a comically transparent game, where they call for policies that raise the price of gasoline and then b

> But the Republicans who’ve pushed this line are playing a comically transparent game, where they call for policies that raise the price of gasoline and then blame Joe Biden for gasoline being expensive. I had to stop reading after these comically misleading statements. For one, gasoline was already costing almost double under Biden than it did under Trump, long before the attack on Ukraine. Biden and this author can do all they want to shift the blame to Russia for inflation and high gas prices, and yes that situation had contributed, but that just doesn’t mesh with what really happened and it’s amazing they’re playing this angle so soon when the past year of high-priced everything due to inflation and high priced gas due to inflation as well as Biden’s anti-oil policies and rhetoric literally existed for, well, a full year before the attacks. Secondly, the ban on Russian oil was hugely bipartisan: 414-17.