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Inflation: We've chastised President Obama many times for failing to live up to promises he made when running for the office. So in fairness, we want to credit him for fulfilling one of them: his pledge to raise energy costs.

In early 2008, candidate Obama told the San Francisco Chronicle that "under my plan ... electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket."

Obama was referring to his plan to cap greenhouse-gas emissions, which would, among other things, effectively choke off coal as an energy source. He was just as fond of high gasoline prices, telling CNBC in June 2008 — as gas prices shot up to $4 a gallon — that he "would have preferred a gradual adjustment."

Six years later, and Obama has succeeded.

Airport loser is back

What in Hades is Her Repetitive Redundancy yammering on about? It's Trump's FBI and DOJ that has exposed fraudulent voters, states' refusing to maintain their voter rolls, and exposed Chinese interference (e.g. fraudulent drivers licenses) in US elections.

Has mal's rum-laced taken her to some sort of perpendicular universe?

• Mal is, as the Dim'Rat politicians and MSM propaganda organs intended, confusing the federal Election Assistance Commission - an agency established to hand out federal money for get out the vote campaigns (and who's benevolence went almost EXCLUSIVELY to leftist organizations) for which the President received USSC approval to fire the leftist commissioners there on - for an Agency that "oversees election integrity"
• Having successfully conflated the agency's mission objectives in mal's rum-soaked mind, mal is - as the Dim'Rat politicians and MSM propaganda organs intended - now castigating the President for his "hypocrisy" vis-a-vis railing on about election integrity while simultaneously disbanding the "organization established to promote election integrity".

FBI Misled Court To Spy on Second Trump Campaign Adviser

Carter Page wasn’t the only adviser from Trump’s first campaign wiretapped by the FBI. Walid Phares was electronically monitored for a 12-month period between 2017 and 2018, according to the Washington-based FBI agent who was assigned to investigate him as part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia collusion probe.

As in Page’s case, the bureau withheld evidence exonerating Phares from the court to secure surveillance authorization, according to newly declassified FBI documents.

“I had no idea any of this was happening,” Phares told RealClearInvestigations in an exclusive interview Wednesday night. “This is shocking because they told my lawyer that I was only a ‘witness’ and that they just needed some information.”

“But these were huge abuses that I can see now,” he added. Phares said he intends to sue the FBI and Justice Department for damages.

The 68-year-old Lebanese-American scholar said case agents and prosecutors grilled him for months, questioned his employer, and even went after his bank records. As a result, he said he lost his job at a university, his livelihood, and even his bank accounts and credit card after Wells Fargo cancelled them.

“It was like a disaster for me financially and physically,” he said. “I also lost my Fox News contract” as an expert on terrorism and the Middle East, which he had held since 2007.

Phares was not hired by the Trump administration, even though he had been expected to land a high-level foreign policy position. “They scared the agencies from me so I would have problems with (obtaining) a security clearance,” he said.