Columnist Debra Saunders: “(I)n a signature speech on energy, President Obama…scoffed at Republicans' ‘three-point plan for $2 gas’: ‘Step one is to drill, step two is to drill, and then step three is to keep drilling.’ That's how savvy this president is: Californians have paid more than $4 per gallon for gasoline this month, yet the president mocked the commonsense notion that more product will lower prices. To Obama, more domestic oil production is a ‘gimmicky’ fix.”
CONVENTION-AL WISDOM
"My basic hope is to pick up some delegates virtually everywhere; pick up a lot of delegates in the South and Southwest and then with Texas and California, be totally in the race." – Newt Gingrich articulating his delegate strategy for the remainder of the GOP nominating contest