It’s not easy defending President Obama’s record on energy policy. On the campaign trail in 2008, Obama explicitly said his energy plan would raise energy prices. That same year, his Energy Secretary explicitly said he wanted to raise gas prices. And since he has become president, many of the alternative energy firms he has given tax payer dollars to have gone bankrupt. Even Obama’s strongest defenders have noticed, leading to this exchange yesterday on NPR:

Kai Ryssdal: “Are you doing your ‘all-of-the-above’ strategy right if that’s what we have to show for it — Solyndra?”