"If he can stop the seas from rising, why can’t he bring down gas prices?”

GOAL!

George Will to Donna Brazile

BC News contributor Donna Brazile on Sunday - like so many Obama-loving media members have in recent months - said, “The president can’t control gas prices.”

 

This led George Will to marvelously ask of his This Week co-panelist, “If he can stop the seas from rising, why can’t he bring down gas prices?” 

 

TRANSCRIPT: 

 

DONNA BRAZILE, ABC NEWS CONTRIBUTOR: Well, first of all, you put forward a proposal and you say, look, I’m trying to lower gas prices. I’ve come up with a proposal that will end all of this speculation, that will put more feds to ensure that people are not driving up the gas prices because of capital investments.

 

The truth is, is that the president can’t control gas prices. I come from a petroleum-producing state, and we can drill all day, we can pump all day, and, by the way, it’s two-year anniversary of the BP oil spill, and I’m still worried about marine life in the gulf.

 

But the fact is, is that this is out of his control, but he has to show the American people that he’s doing everything possible to manage gas prices.

 

GEORGE WILL: But there’s something about our obsession with the imperial presidency — it’s true in both parties — that says nothing’s out of our control. After all, Mr. Obama, the night he clinched the nomination, said this will be the moment when the rise of the seas stop. Well, if he can stop the seas from rising, why can’t he bring down gas prices?