The GOP are ignorant hypocrites for blaming gas prices on Obama

I appreciate Pro's efforts on this debate. It is instructive on the thinking."Ignorant" inherently conflicts with "hypocrisy"Pro has the burden to prove "Republicans are ignorant hypocrites for blaming gas prices on Obama." Of what are they ignorant? Pro says, "im arguing that in this particular case that Republicans are being ignorant since they are ignoring their own facts and reasons from the past when it comes to placing blame for gas prices." "Ignorant" does not mean knowing and ignoring, it means not knowing. So of what are Republicans hypocritical? Pro says, "Republicans believe Obama, the president, is the only one responsible for high gas prices, but it is hypocritical for them to believe such a thing because in the past under Bush, Republicans blamed many other things for high gas prices and Bush wasn't one of them." That means Republicans did not forget about other factors affecting gas prices. There is an inherent unresolvable conflict between "ignorant" (not knowing) and hypocritical (knowing and posturing). Pro cannot maintain both, so the resolution fails at the outset.Republicans consistently blame blocking drillingIn fact, Republicans are neither ignorant nor hypocrites. The know many factors affect oil prices, but it is perfectly reasonable to only press drilling policy. Recall that after Bush expanding drilling, prices fell by about half. The Obama Administration undid the Bush expansion of offshore drilling, illegally delayed Gulf deep water drilling, illegally revoked Atlantic Coast leases, cut back oil shale development, and blocked the Keystone pipeline that would lower transportation costs. That's not trivial. Republicans are making a big issue over a big issue.Republicans blame oil prices on policies that place obstacles to domestic production. They have believed that consistently. During the Bush Administration Congressional Democrats were blamed for blocking production, and when Bush went around Congress to overcome roadblocks, some Republicans blamed Bush for not doing it sooner. They always focused on the policy. Gingrich wrote a book during the Bush years making clear he thought development was the issue, not who was president.It's not remotely plausible that Republicans forgot that other factors affect gas prices. Democrats are there to remind Republicans and the public. What Republicans recognize is that it is pointless to complain about hurricanes or unrest in Nigeria, because those are not subject to presidential policy decisions. Pro argues that if President Obama has a bad policy that increases gas prices, Republicans are hypocrites because they could not think of a bad policy that Bush promoted that drove up gas prices. That is not a logical argument. Evidence and SourcesReferences in a debate are used to support an argument, but not at the level of "read this and you'll see republicans are hypocrites." Pro needed to assert, "Mr. X a Republican said that nothing affects oil prices except the President, yet he criticized President Obama and not President Bush." followed by the link with supporting the evidence. Pro did not say what each reference was supposed to prove, and he (a) often omitted establishing the person was a Republican, (b) always omitted establishing that the person professed that only the President affects prices, and (c) omitted proof that Bush was never criticized by the person. His case is to cite some people who are critical of President Obama's policy of obstruction of exploration and drilling. With three exceptions he does not bother to establish that the cited critics are Republicans, claiming he did not have the character count in this long winded debate to establish who is talking. In no case does he establish that the persons cited were uncritical of Bush, He offers nothing but partisan opinion that Republicans where inconsistent in what they blamed.We are supposed to believe without proof that all critics of the policies of obstructing oil production are Republicans who believe that nothing but the President determines oil prices. Pro did not meet the burden of proof.The generalization is unprovedOne way to prove a generalization is to present data from a poll or survey. Pro had no such data. Another way is to point to a defining document, say the Republican Party platform. Pro didn't have anything like that either. What Pro did was to call upon another unproved generalization, that all Republicans are always hypocrites. Even if it were proved that Republicans were hypocritical about some other issues, it wouldn't prove they were hypocritical about this one. The resolution is negated.