McConnell: Dems 'just like Carter'

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) thinks it's "Welcome back, Carter" time.

From Politico:

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell slammed Democrats and the White House over gasoline prices Tuesday morning, labeling them as little more than Jimmy Carter groupies.

"Democrats need to stop deflecting attention from their own complicity in our nation's overdependence on foreign oil," McConnell said at the Nuclear Energy Assembly conference in Washington, D.C. "They need to end an approach that hasn’t changed since the Jimmy Carter administration.

"Just like Carter, they're more interested in using this crisis [of gas prices] as an excuse to push for higher taxes than they are at solving the problem itself," McConnell said. "And just like Carter, they're underestimating the frustration of the American people."

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