The president is clearly in campaign mode. In Tuesday’s State of the Union address, he said, “This country needs an all-out, all-of-the-above strategy that develops every available source of American energy — a strategy that’s cleaner, cheaper, and full of new jobs.” I applaud the sentiment. Unfortunately, sandwiched between his campaign speeches have been three painful years of failed policies.

It’s like a real-world version of the movie Groundhog Day. Americans keep hearing the same promises for domestic energy production and green jobs, but then they wake up to political pandering and green scandals.

This is the same administration that placed a moratorium on offshore oil drilling, costing the country up to 220,000 barrels of domestic oil per day in 2011, according to estimates from the Department of Energy’s Energy Information Agency.

And who can forget cap-and-trade? The same president, who is now proposing increased domestic energy supplies, attempted to build an expansive new bureaucracy that, in the president’s own words, was designed to make energy prices “skyrocket.” When cap-and-tax failed, the president shifted gears and regulated what he couldn’t legislate. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has already declared carbon dioxide an air pollutant and has begun the process of expanding its bureaucracy to create onerous new costs for power plants and refiners.

This is also the same president who has fallen far short of fulfilling one of his hallmark campaign promises: 5 million new jobs in a “green economy.” Well, do more lawyers count as green jobs? The administration seemed to have rushed DOE to approve the $535 million in loans to Solyndra to build solar panels, despite concerns from his own economic advisers. When it became clear that Solyndra was in financial trouble, the administration reworked the loan to ensure political cronies who invested additional capital in the company would be repaid before taxpayers.

Then, just last week, the Obama administration rejected the Keystone pipeline. This is a private-sector investment that could result in 100,000 American jobs. Worse, for America’s energy security, the timing could not have been worse. Iran’s finger is on the trigger of the oil weapon; Obama is simultaneously staring down its barrel and helping to load it.

Faced with sanctions for its illegal development of nuclear weapons, Iran threatened to forcibly close the Strait of Hormuz, through which one-fifth of the world’s oil flows. In the middle of this standoff, the president rejected a secure supply of oil in deference to environmental concerns that he has never been able to articulate.

The State Department’s claim that it simply did not have enough time to evaluate the pipeline application is laughable. The pipeline has been in development since 2008, but, conveniently, the president does not feel he will be prepared to make the controversial political decision until after the next election.

In the meantime, Canada is not amused by this political pandering. Upon hearing that the U.S. would reject the Keystone pipeline, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper told the president that Canada would begin hearings on a proposed pipeline west for Asian markets.

Perhaps the only actual attempt President Obama has made to increase domestic energy supplies has been his support for ethanol policies. The president has been a huge proponent of the mandate that forces Americans to buy ethanol, though it is debatable whether ethanol even produces as much energy as is required to produce and ship it. This year, the EPA approved introduction of motor fuels blended with up to 15 percent ethanol, despite universal protestations from car manufacturers that the fuels will void warranties, decrease gas mileage, and damage engines.

With nearly a year until the next election, Americans can expect to hear plenty more promises from a president in campaign mode. These promises should be weighed against the president’s actual record.

— James Sensenbrenner represents Wisconsin’s 5th congressional district.