What to make of President Obama’s surprising decision to tap the Strategic Petroleum Reserve?

One of the original architects of the SPR tells TPM: “I hate to say it because I’m a supporter of the President, but I can’t see it as anything more than a brazen political act to convince people he’s doing something about gas prices.”

Benjy Sarlin has more on the bewildering move.

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