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Talk a good game but if you put up the numbers you could be able to reclaim the offense here. >>guest: and you will see that in the next couple of weeks. >>neil: are we doing it this year? >>guest: i would like to see us lower the corporate tax rate. >>neil: we would all like it. >>guest: i think it can happen and i would hike to happen, it is a great contrast to the obama premium families are paying at the pump. they were paying $1.83 when obama took office and now it is around $3.50 because of his radical policies. that is what families are frustrated about. the president talk as good game b...

Obama administration was $1.83. it came down from $4 a gallon under george bush, yes, it was $4 but the day it started on its downward trajectory, oil prices and gasoline was july 17th of 2008. you know what happened that exact same week, that was the week that george bush said he's pulling the moratorium on off-shore drilling and opened up drilling off the coasts and oil prices started to tumble from $145 a barrel down to $33 a barrel in january of 2009. >> the rnc sees trouble for the president regarding this and apparently, they sent out something, according to the papers called pundit prep...

In some sort of price manipulation and he said he would do this to oil companies. >> i'll make oil companies like exxon pay a tax on their windfall profits and we'll use the money to help families pay for the skyrocketing energy costs and other bills. >> ok. that's when he was a senator! now he's the president. he could probably do all that other stuff he was talking about -- about back then. nothing. >> can i point something out? for every penny per gallon on the pump, a billion dollars comes out of americans' ability to spend so a $1.83 when they started. $3 $3.52 now. that's $170 billion of...

They got her out. yes, they did give her a stuffed bunny for her troubles and i'd be willing to guess she's not going to do that again. >> i bet you're right. >> those are your headlines, people. >> no kidding. have you noticed how in the mainstream media, everybody seems to be talking about hey, the economy is turning around. it's really good news for barack obama. there is one gigantic fly in the ointment, though. when barack obama became the president of the united states, the average price of regular in this country was $1.83. we showed some video that showed in some spots gas is $4.59 a g...

>> steve: that's where it is close to 4 bucks heading up higher. so if you're out west, if you're all the way from maine down through the i-95 corridor, there is a real good chance that this gas price is killing you. >> eric: right. one of the areas that's not red that probably should be red is -- you can see it. the very tip of illinois, the northeastern tip. that's chicago. that's the city of chicago which has of the highest metropolitan gas prices in america. here is the issue, barak obama took office in january of 2009. the day he raised his right hand and sworn in, it was 1.83 a gallon. n...