By now I’m sure you’re all well aware of the huge BP oil spill. No need going into detail. The facts are gruesome enough. What is interesting is the flack the current administration is getting over their handling of the crisis. The phrase “Obama’s Katrina” was thrown around the second oil hit water for conservatives, thinking that this time it could possibly stick. As opposed to all those other times they tried to use the same phrase in other debates. (Health Care, Financial Reform and The Stimulus, Unemployment) It didn’t really work then. But this? An oil spill? On Obama’s watch? And he didn’t walk on water to magically fix everything and hand out free money and electric cars like some beautiful mix of Oprah and Jesus? The GOP couldn’t be happier right now. They now have, what they see as a foothold to really get at Obama for being the Leftist, Socialist, Marxist, Terrorist (did I miss any -ist?) bastard that he is. Not seeing that the GOP spends most of their time not giving too much of a damn about the environment and being all about drilling in the face of a major, and insanely damaging, event such as this. Nice try. You’ve managed to make yourselves look more like out of touch douchebags then you already do.

The interesting part of this is the Liberal wing of Obama’s own party, starting to use the same rhetoric. Last night, Keith Olbermann started a countdown of how long the oil spill has been going on and talked to Howard Fineman about why hasn’t Obama “fired” BP from handling the clean up. This is where I have a problem with the people more left of me. I guess I’m not sure what they want Obama to do. He isn’t going to “fire” anyone. As much as people compare him Hitler, he isn’t going to stop the people who should be dealing with it from dealing with it. And like it or not, BP NEEDS the deal with it. So stop it with that. He’s doing what he can within the power of his office. Outside of him going to New Orleans, forcing BP CEOs to clean animals at gunpoint, he’s doing as much as he can. As cool as that might sound.

The more Liberal in the party want Obama to be their own Bush. A guy that rolls over the other side with force and disdain, without a thought of the rules or procedure to further their agenda. It would be cool, wouldn’t it? The problem is that Obama was never going to be that guy. He ran on returning to the “right” way to govern. Everybody hashing it out and getting their ideas out and coming up with compromises to form solutions to problems in America…..yeah, that’s not working so well. But that’s not the point. He isn’t going to be “our” Bush, as pleasing as that sounds. So turning on him isn’t going to get your agenda furthered. Sorry. We’d all like a “Democrat Bush”, but that business isn’t going to happen. I feel like people don’t understand how government works. They seem to remember Bush doing whatever the hell he wanted and thinking that’s how politics works. Tit for tat. That’s not how it works. Sorry. Obama is dealing with a very complex and dangerous problem that never happened before that could get alot worse. Sure, there have been oil spills before, but not like the magnitude we’re dealing with now. This is all new ground. None of this is easy going. If there were an easy solution, it would be taken care of already. And dealing with a very complex and dangerous new problem that could do serious damage to the environment and economy in the long term while under the constant watch of a nation with a short attention-span and political opponents that are looking for any possible reason to use against you is ALOT different then flying over a town flattened out by a natural disaster with people dying in the streets and saying “Heck of a job, Brownie“.

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