WaPo columnist tells Americans not to cast votes based on high gas prices

[mystery-ak]

June 21, 2022 11:09am EDT
WaPo columnist tells Americans not to cast votes based on high gas prices: 'Neither party has a serious plan'
President Biden said Monday that there was 'nothing inevitable about a recession'

By Hanna Panreck | Fox News

    Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell warned Americans against casting their votes based just on high gas prices on Sunday, adding that "neither party has a serious plan."

"The president does not have some super-secret special dial on his desk that can adjust gas prices, but many voters believe otherwise," she wrote.

She said that there isn't much President Biden and Congress can do about oil production or to combat inflation.

"Neither party has a serious plan for dealing with inflation overall or gas prices specifically," Rampell wrote.

The Washington Post columnist also noted that Democratic infighting slashed Biden's ambitions to pass a bill on climate change, but added that their ideas were "no longer terribly relevant" ahead of the midterm elections.

Rampell criticized Republican priorities, saying "Republicans seem to care about tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. They want to find ways to repeal Obamacare, or otherwise reduce access to health care by (for example) slashing Medicaid."

The author said that while she's frustrated with gas prices as well, she fears "the much worse policy choices looming in the years ahead if Democrats don’t get their act together — and effectively cede the agenda to Republicans."

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[Kamaji]

[GtHawk]

Okay, I'll cast my votes based on democrat arrogance, incompetence, actions to deprive me of my constitutional rights, non defense of our southern border, destruction of the nuclear family, dumbing down of our children and promoting a socialist agenda in schools, promotion of unnatural and perverse lifestyles, destructive and anti business financial policies, destruction of America's energy  and independence, bare store shelves, anti military policies resulting in soldiers deaths and weak defense, failed foreign policy implementation resulting in America being a laughing stock around the world.......and high gas prices. Sorry if I missed some but the Biden administration is such a failure that it's hard to keep track of everything.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

This from a woman(I guess?) whose thesis in Anthropology was entitled

 "Hawk the Vote: Marketing Voting to American Youth"

Why would anyone employ such a person, much less be interested in what they say or write?

[The_Reader_David]

Well, single issue voting is usually a bad idea.  Of course, high gas prices, the vilification involved parents as domestic terrorists, backing the madness of replacing biological sex with subjectively felt or self-declared "gender" in matters of law, high food prices, the bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan, the waste of public monies on a show-trial in the House*,... all strongly suggest not voting for Democrats this election cycle (or any other in the near future).

*A proper investigation of the event of Jan. 6, 2020 wouldn't have been a waste, but that would have required actually seating the members the GOP proposed and allowing the examination of the question of agents provocaterurs as well as what role Trump peddling the delusional constitutional theory that the Vice-President as President of the Senate could the votes of electors as reported by the state.