HE’D RATHER TALK ABOUT BIRTH CONTROL: Gas Prices Trigger Obama Scramble. Or at least, that was the plan. Hasn’t worked out too well. And they’ve noticed:

The White House scrambled Monday to contain the political damage from rising gas prices, which have emerged as a primary threat to President Obama’s reelection.

Obama gave White House interviews touting his energy policies to TV stations in several regions, including the battleground states of Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania, and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar appeared in the White House briefing room to emphasize that “all options are on the table” to lower prices.

All options except, you know, drilling, building the Keystone pipeline, increasing refinery capacity, or stuff like that.