PELOSI: Here’s the thing: There are many aspects to this, but the price of gas and the price of oil have an impact on the price of many other things, including the price of, uh, food. So lowering costs at the pump, lowering costs at the kitchen table, that’s what Democrats are about.

And again, we’re going to be getting down this path with very serious legislation that is, for now, recognizing covid and what that has done to supply, Ukraine, what that has done to supply, but recognizing there is ongoing exploitation and manipulation that is unfair to America’s working families.

BUCK: I just want Nancy Pelosi to explain why this manipulation and the inflation and the price gouging and all this stuff magically happens all of a sudden when Joe Biden is in charge and the Democrats have a majority in the House and a de facto majority in the Senate. I just want to know how that happens. Could she try to explain that?

“It’s a very unlucky situation.” Yeah, we all understand that they have the unenviable task of defending the indefensible with the Biden record so far. But could the lies just be a little more clever? That’s one thing I would love. I just wish that Nancy would sit around and say things that would either be amusing or at least make me think a little bit.

This notion of price gouging from the gas companies and the big, evil corporations and all this stuff. I’m sorry. No. Not gonna fly. That’s not what the problem is. But the other side of this is that if they just do what is necessary to turn things around — whether it’s at the border or on energy production or, you name it — they will be making an admission one way or the other that they were wrong and that we were right.

And that’s really what this is. That’s a huge part, by the way, of the intransigence over masking and over vaccine mandates. I think more so than anything else, in the leftist Democrat mind, admitting they were wrong about something is far more painful than continuing to suffer from their dumbass ideas. That’s honestly what I think! That’s where they are.

It’s a lot harder for them to say, “Man. Turns out you guys are right. When you make it harder for companies to produce domestic fossil fuel energy, we are more at the whim of the Russians, and we have higher prices, and it’s a problem.” Turns out they won’t just admit the very obvious. “Spending more money makes inflation worse. So, we should probably stop trying to spend even more money.” They will not admit these things.