Mitt Romney: Obama Looks to Blame Others on Gas Prices and Fiscal Issues

With Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney expected to win primaries in Washington, D.C., Maryland and Wisconsin on Tuesday, he tried to focus his fire on President Barack Obama, insisting the Democrat incumbent is looking to reassign blame on energy and fiscal issues.

Appearing on Fox News on Monday night, Romney slammed Obama on energy. The former Massachusetts governor insisted that Obama was looking to duck responsibility for high gas prices.

I think it's kind of amusing and actually troubling for the president of the United States to be looking for someone to blame," Romney said. There are a lot of qualities that you look for in a president; blaming other people is not one of them. He is the president of the United States. He is the one responsible for energy policies in our country today, and by virtue of his policies we have seen something which he predicted during his campaign. He said with his energy policies energy prices would skyrocket. And frankly, what he has done is made it harder and harder for the small operators, the drillers, to get more oil, more gas, more coal, to develop these American sources of energy. He is responsible in part for what were seeing happen around the world, which is people convinced that prices of oil are going to go up.

The Romney camp continued to focus on Obama on Tuesday. Andrea Saul, a spokeswoman for Romney, took aim at comments Obama made on Tuesday blaming George W. Bushs administration for the large federal deficit and national debt.

If President Obama is assigning blame for the countrys debt and deficits, he should look no further than his own budget blueprints, Saul said. After piling on trillions of dollars in new debt in his first three years in office, the last thing President Obama is qualified to lecture on is responsible federal spending.