8:42 PM | Posted in ,
Our friends over at Bluestem Prairie exposed some right wing lunacy:

Misreading MarketWatch: would "Bachmann's" bill bring gas down to $2?

We had a good belly laugh today when we read an attempt to use a recent MarketWatch article to defend Congresswoman Bachmann's prize press conference pandering for the "No Excuse for This Energy Act."

Readers may remember that Bachmann claimed that enacting the legislation--not a bill she actually authored or introduced, mind you, just one she decided to co-sponsor in April--would bring down the price of gas to $2 in four years.

We can certainly understand why Mitch Berg at Shot in the Dark ( crossposting to True North) would glom on to an article with this headline:

Gas could fall to $2 if Congress acts, analysts say

to vindicate the widely-ridiculed Mrs. Bachmann. Unfortunately for that reading of the article, the details tell a much different story about what might make gas prices fall. Hint: a different piece of legislation.


The right wing blogosphere in Minnesota is going to try to latch on to any news (even if it tells the opposite story) to try sell their myth that drilling will solve the current state of gas prices. Go to Bluestem for the full story...
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