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Coa coast. and now he's saying this is part of a solution to the energy problem. i missed the moment where he stood up there with some new reports saying, look, the evidence, i was wrong. who knew? it'll work. i mean where was that moment that we got to see, you know, why he shifted and why he changed. that's what's sort of leaving people with their heads kind of spinning, going you know what's going on here? >> but what appears to be going on here is that we're going to be looking at rising gas prices this summer. a midterm election this fall. the republicans were going to take cracks at the ...

And as you just laid out that's what he's been doing from day one. whether it's putting more money into renewables, an historic amount of money into wind and energy, the first nuclear loan guaranty in more than 30 years. new auto efficiency standards will be announced tomorrow, and today drilling. this is about breaking our dependents on foreign oil. it's an important step. it's about creating a new generation of clean energy jobs and it's about a comprehensive approach to how we use and generate energy in this country. >> yeah, i guess my concern is that this doesn't do that, and the presiden...

Independents. take a listen. >> cutting waste, saving energy and reducing our reliance on foreign oil. >> problem of course, as you likely know, is that this plan runs directly counter to what he said on the campaign trail, specifically even though the white house says the president has been consistent. >> believe me, if i thought there was any evidence at all that drilling could save people money who are struggling to fill up their gas tanks by this summer or this year or even the next few years i would consider it but it won't. >> and interesting about-face seen as a nod to republicans, one ...

We have an abundance supply of and we could transition all of our fuel onto natural gas and actually reduce our dependents on foreign oil, and yet the president is not doing that. let me finish. instead he's coming up with a fraudulent solution in which he caters to a political slogan effectively that doesn't actually reduce our dependents on foreign oil while not addressing the opportunity that exists to utilize natural gas to actually get us off of foreign oil. so don't get me wrong. i'm not against drilling or not drilling. i'm against slogan-based solutions that don't solve the problem and...

Look at the giveaway to special interest in the health care bill, extraordinary. their willingness to accommodate every special interest at the expense of efficiency and americans in order to expand health care. look at the subsidization of the banking industry that goes on to this day, or reports of the impending deal with the republicans to forego civilian trials for gitmo terror suspects in favor of military trials. wasn't gitmo supposed to be closed by now, anyway? i don't know. the president clearly defying expectations. the question, is it betrayal or a true bipartisanship or is he simpl...