{"id":9040,"date":"2011-03-25T11:37:36","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T15:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=9040"},"modified":"2011-03-25T11:38:11","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T15:38:11","slug":"cfif%e2%80%99s-senik-in-daily-caller-obama-thinks-brazil-exception-us-overhyped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/9040\/cfif%e2%80%99s-senik-in-daily-caller-obama-thinks-brazil-exception-us-overhyped\/","title":{"rendered":"CFIF\u2019s Senik in Daily Caller: Obama Thinks Brazil Exceptional, US Overhyped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CFIF Senior Fellow Troy Senik <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2011\/03\/25\/the-obama-gas-tax\/\" target=\"_blank\">takes President Barack Obama to task<\/a> in a column for <em>The Daily Caller<\/em> today, arguing that the commander-in-chief has the power to bring down gas prices, but won\u2019t.\u00a0 Instead, Obama would rather enrich a semi-socialist state like Brazil while America\u2019s economy sputters.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In fact, gas prices are up 67 percent since President Obama took office a little more than two years ago. Lest you think this analysis one-sided, during the same period in President Bush\u2019s tenure gas prices increased by only seven percent.<\/p>\n<p>Yet that doesn\u2019t seem to bother President Obama much. Earlier this month, he said that we can\u2019t drill our way out of our energy problems. That is like suggesting you can\u2019t medicate yourself out of an illness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2011\/03\/25\/the-obama-gas-tax\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CFIF Senior Fellow Troy Senik takes President Barack Obama to task in a column for The Daily Caller today, arguing that the commander-in-chief has the power to bring down gas prices, but won\u2019t.\u00a0 Instead, Obama would rather enrich a semi-socialist state like Brazil while America\u2019s economy sputters. In fact, gas prices are up 67 percent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,2507,1549,19,2519,1216,2520,71,1006],"class_list":["post-9040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-brazil","tag-drilling","tag-economy","tag-gas","tag-oil","tag-socialist","tag-taxes","tag-troy-senik"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9040","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9040"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9053,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9040\/revisions\/9053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}