Gas Price Hypocrisy - Michigan Governor Exhibit

CNN reports our fearless leader is having problems:

Gas prices are up, and the president's poll numbers are down.
Way down.
A full 50% of Americans now strongly disapprove of how President Obama is handling the economy, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. That's the highest level of his presidency, and a 9-point jump from the previous month. Another 9% of Americans somewhat disapprove, while only 38% say they approve.
It would appear that rising gas prices are at least partly to blame.
Only 26% approve of how Obama is handling gas prices, while almost two-thirds disapprove -- and 52% say their disapproval is strong. Almost 90% of respondents say they are concerned about rising prices, while 63% say paying more for gas has caused financial hardship. Almost one in two think prices will go up -- and stay there.

Apparently, CNN didn't get the memo because just two weeks ago we have former Clinton advisor George Stephanopolous (Democrat) telling us former Michigan Democratic Governor Granholm telling us this:

As gas prices rise to record levels for this time of the year, former Democratic Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm said it is “totally ridiculous” to blame President Obama for the spike.
“I think blaming the president for high gas prices is like blaming Rudy Giuliani for 9/11,” Granholm said today on the “This Week” roundtable. “It’s totally ridiculous.”

Unfortunately, Jennifer Granholm doesn't have a good enough memory to be a very good liar. After all, when George W. Bush was President, Governor Granholm had NO PROBLEM blaming Bush for high gas prices - doing it not once, not twice, but THREE separate times!!! (Oops - actually four).

In 2006, she wrote:
“Michigan drivers may soon be paying an average of $3 or more for a gallon of gas, and it’s time for President Bush and the leadership in Washington to start protecting us from the skyrocketing cost of gasoline,” Granholm said. “It's just not right that oil companies should be allowed to hold customers hostage to outrageously expensive gas while they rake in billions of dollars in record-setting profits.

“If you agree with me that we need relief at the pump now, please join me in signing an online petition calling on the President to cap excessive gasoline profits,” Granholm said.

Granholm noted that oil prices have increased 240 percent since President Bush’s inauguration in January 2001, and the average price for unleaded gasoline is 64 cents higher than this time last year.

Later in 2006, she wrote:
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“Two years after you assured Americans that a federal energy bill would help lower gas prices, oil companies are making record profits while consumers are emptying their wallets at the pump,” Granholm wrote in a letter to the White House. “Even worse, despite oil companies’ rhetoric that they are reinvesting profits to improve supply, we now know that at least one company has put off critical pipeline maintenance, leaving our economy even more dependent on unstable foreign governments.”
One year after urging the passage of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, the president’s energy policies have failed to reduce the nation’s dependence on foreign oil and have failed to relieve consumers from record high gas prices.

Apparently, Grahnolm believes a President can do something overnight about gas prices - except, of course, when that President is a Democrat.