Biden blaming high gas prices on Russia is cynical and disgraceful

Joe Biden claiming rising gas prices in America is "Putin's price hike" is as organic as a strawberry jolly rancher.

Gutted cars following a night air raid in the village of Bushiv, 40 kilometers west of Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 4, 2022.  (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky) A local retiree Nataliya Mykolaivna, 64, gestures as she talks to AFP journalist next to a minibus, bringing supplies and gifts to frontline soldiers volunteers and hard-pressed residents, destroyed by Russian shelling at a short distance from the frontline in Horenka, northern Kyiv, on March 10, 2022.  (Photo by SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP via Getty Images) A volunteer of Ukraine's Territorial Defense Forces stands in the crater from the explosion near a checkpoint in Brovary, outside Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022.  (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky) Biden is badly misreading the political moment. 

Poll after poll shows that Americans, on a bipartisan basis, overwhelmingly support Ukraine in this conflict, even if there are differences in what form that support should take. Joe Biden has chosen to throw a hand grenade of domestic partisanship into the middle of that unity. At a time when Americans should be focused on the war, and what it means for our nation’s evolving role in world affairs, Biden is scoring ugly, cheap, political points.