Obama was all for cutting and running in Iraq.  At the time, he insisted that he wanted to focus on Afghanistan, the good war.  Once in office, he waffled on Afghanistan and desperately tried to figure out how to get out without openly surrendering to the Taliban.  But for all his pacifism, there is evidently one war he’s actually willing to fight, and that’s the war against American jobs.  He shall fight for the unions, he shall fight for the Greens, he shall never surrender – not as long as there are any Americans who are not subjugated and starving and relying on government handouts.

The latest front in Obama’s war is American drilling.  We’re not going to be doing it anymore, at least not for the next seven years.  That apparently is how long the incompetents in the Obama administration think it will take to devise safer drilling regulations.  (Aren’t you glad your tax dollars facilitated drilling in Brazil?)  And remember, this only halts American drilling in the Gulf.  Cuba, China, Russia and any other country who wants to can still drill.

Gas prices are going to go way up.  As will the cost of arugula and all other food prices, because that stuff doesn’t grow in the produce department, it has to be delivered there.  Old people who can’t afford to have their oil tanks filled for heat in the winter?  Tough.  Take a pain pill, Grandma.

I’d say this is insane, but I really do think it’s both calculated and malicious.

Michelle Malkin explains why Ken Salazar ought to be run out of town on a rail. For my part, I’d be happy if the MSM gave the disgraceful federal response to the oil spill just one-tenth of the gimlet-eyed reporting they gave to the federal response to Hurricane Katrina. Most of the country simply has NO IDEA how bad things are here. In fact, I’d bet a lot of Louisianans don’t know either, unless they have family or friends directly involved. The government and BP are keeping it very quiet. And that’s a pretty big story in itself that’s gone largely unreported. Sure, Anderson Cooper squawked a bit, briefly. Remember the in-depth media coverage when the Bush administration fascists sent jackbooted thugs into the nation’s libraries to see what books we’ve been checking out? Could we get just a tenth of that attention on this story? Probably not.

Obama’s not letting this crisis go to waste – he’s created a new government agency which will surely solve all our problems. This time it’s going to work. I’m sure of it.

Update: heh – I was just listening to Rush and he mocked the media for their palpable disappointment that TS Alex is hitting Mexico instead of the oil spill area.  He very tactfully did not call Hannity out on his drama queendom.  Also – I’ve posted several times over the last 24 hours but evidently the host is still bouncing this site around different servers because the ip has changed several times and it keeps reverting back to the version of the database from immediately before the attack.  So this update may well disappear at some point.  Go figure.
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I had to turn off the radio because if I heard him yapping about the “big storm” and “building storm” headed toward the oil spill just one more time I’d have somehow magically gone through the radio and tried to wring his neck.

Honestly, do we need the drama?  It’s not a big storm.  It may never be a big storm.  It’s a freaking tropical disturbance.  Not a hurricane, a storm or even a depression at this point.   And neither weather.com nor Weather Underground are doing much speculating yet.  Stop trying to panic people!

Added: I didn’t turn it off fast enough and was treated to “a huge storm is headed into the oil spill”  and he’s about to interview Accuweather’s Joe Bastardi.  For the record, the Accuweather website notes there is “quite a bit of uncertainty.“  What a drama queen.

UPDATE: Yeah, okay, Drama Queen may have been on to something.  Mea maxima culpa, and all that jazz.

/tired
//bitter
///dreading a media Katrina
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I was really frustrated to read Froma Harrop’s suggestion that Louisiana be made a U. S. Protectorate – in other words, let the feds take over the entire state – because of the oil spill.  She is so wrong on so many levels that a real fisking would have cut deeply into my billable client time.  It’s Katrina all over again – only this time instead of the Corps of Engineers getting away with malfeasance, it’s MMS… and post-spill, quite a few other agencies of the federal government.  So I devoted my first post over at the Washington Examiner to a reality check on the issue.

A federal takeover is hardly necessary.  But succession is starting to sound pretty good.