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Everybody is talking about gas prices...except the mainstream media. Their silence over gas prices this time has been deafening compared to the brow-beating they gave the subject in 2008 (do a google comparison---they aren't talking about it as much this time). *Chirp* *Chirp* *Chirp*

What's the difference between now and then??? *Sarcasm*

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/53595.html

GOP to make hay in May over gas

By DARREN GOODE | 4/22/11 4:47 PM EDT Updated: 4/24/11 8:50 AM EDT

Republicans are getting ready to capitalize on record prices at the pump with a May focus on oil and gasoline.

The government shutdown battle put the issue on the back burner even though prices at the pump have been rising steadily since February. Now, with President Barack Obama already on the defensive, the GOP is ready to pounce.

House Republicans are planning bill introductions, hearings, markups and floor votes on legislation aimed at expanding domestic oil production in response to high gasoline prices.

The plain truth that there is realistically nothing Congress can do in the short- or mid-term to affect gas prices that won’t get in the way of both parties trying to score political points by complaining the other is not addressing the problem.

"The White House and the rest of the Democrats who run Washington are terrified about the political impact of gas prices, because many of their policies — like the national energy tax — are explicitly designed to raise energy prices,” said Michael Steel, spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner.

Obama on Thursday pointed to high gasoline prices for his sagging poll numbers. "My poll numbers go up and down depending on the latest crisis, and right now gas prices are weighing heavily on people," he said at a Los Angeles fundraiser.

The latest Gallup tracking poll gives the president a 43 percent approval rating and a 49 percent disapproval rating. A divided Congress fares far worse — a 17 percent approval rating that is identical to right after last November’s midterm election.

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There's a story on gas prices nearly every hour on every cable news station during the day. There's a feature story at least weekly in every major market newspaper and update stories more frequently.

How exactly is that considered deafening silence? Oh, wait, Rush or Beck or Hannity said it was true and you believed them. You got punked.