.MaddowBlog: The cancelation of the Keystone XL pipeline isn’t responsible for rising gas prices. But that hasn't stopped Republicans like Rob Portman from suggesting otherwise.
Sen. Rob Portman is no rookie when it comes to governing. The Ohio Republican was in the U.S. House for 12 years; he served as the U.S. Trade Representative in the Bush/Cheney administration; he led the Office of Management and Budget; and he’s been a U.S. senator for over a decade.
In other words, those looking for a GOP lawmaker on Capitol Hill who has some idea what he’s talking about when it comes to policymaking tend to look to Portman. It was against this backdrop that the Ohioan appeared on CNN yesterday and, as part of a discussion on gas prices, was asked whether President Joe Biden is right about oil companies failing to take full advantage of existing drilling leases. Here was the senator’s response, by way of the“No. I mean, with all due respect, let’s be specific. When the president was elected, he said we’re going to cut off Keystone, which is North American energy, which is what we’re talking about.
Portman kept going, but let’s stop here because in short order, the Republican made three important claims. First, he said Biden isn’t right about oil companies failing to take full advantage of existing drilling leases. On this, the facts point in the opposite direction. As Dana Milbank explained in a
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