{"id":15735,"date":"2012-09-04T14:30:20","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T18:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=15735"},"modified":"2012-09-04T14:31:02","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T18:31:02","slug":"in-other-news-gas-price-reaches-record-high-on-labor-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/15735\/in-other-news-gas-price-reaches-record-high-on-labor-day\/","title":{"rendered":"In Other News&#8230;  Gas Price Reaches Record High on Labor Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the mainstream media appears more concerned with Clint Eastwood&#8217;s improv skit or Mitt Romney&#8217;s income tax returns, gasoline prices reached an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Business\/Latest-News-Wires\/2012\/0902\/Gas-prices-highest-ever-for-a-Labor-Day\" target=\"_blank\">all-time Labor Day high<\/a> this week.\u00a0 Back in 2008, of course, Barack Obama <a href=\"http:\/\/news.investors.com\/ibd-editorials\/022112-601827-obama-shifting-talk-on-high-gas-prices.htm\" target=\"_blank\">thundered<\/a> that high gas prices demonstrated, &#8220;Washington&#8217;s failure to lead on energy,&#8221;  with the consequence of, &#8220;turning the middle-class squeeze into a devastating vise-grip  for millions of Americans.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 Today, in contrast, Obama <a href=\"http:\/\/freebeacon.com\/obama-politicized-high-gas-prices-in-2008-now-accuses-gop-of-playing-politics\/\" target=\"_blank\">accuses<\/a> critics of his energy policy of &#8220;playing politics.&#8221;\u00a0 Funny how four years of failed energy policy and Solyndra boondoggles changed his tune.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the mainstream media appears more concerned with Clint Eastwood&#8217;s improv skit or Mitt Romney&#8217;s income tax returns, gasoline prices reached an all-time Labor Day high this week.\u00a0 Back in 2008, of course, Barack Obama thundered that high gas prices demonstrated, &#8220;Washington&#8217;s failure to lead on energy,&#8221; with the consequence of, &#8220;turning the middle-class squeeze [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3806,2116,24],"class_list":["post-15735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-gas-price","tag-gasoline","tag-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15735"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15737,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15735\/revisions\/15737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}