Fifty-six days, millions of gallons of oil and countless hours of cable television second-guessing later, President Obama finally addressed the nation from the Oval Office on Tuesday night to declare war.
His enemies were oil industry lobbyists and corrupt regulators, foreign energy suppliers and conservative policy makers, and a stubborn gushing well at the bottom of the sea. And ultimately, he was fighting his own powerlessness, as a president castigated for failing to stop the nation’s worst-ever oil spill tried to turn disaster into opportunity. (NYT, 6/16/10)
What a refreshing change it would have been for President Obama to say: “Now is not the time for pointing fingers, for politics or for grandstanding. Now is the time to cap the well and now is the time to support the people of the gulf. Here’s what we are doing….”
Instead we get the usual from Obama: castigation of corporate villains and political foes and calls to pass his energy agenda. Another missed opportunity.
Haven’t Read It, But Still Don’t Like It
America's mayors on Monday went on record in opposition to Arizona's immigration law, voting for a pair of resolutions that would amount to one of the broadest condemnations to date of the policy. (FoxNews.com, 6/14/10)
Wonder how many of them actually read the law!
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