Little-Acorn
06-11-2010, 03:24 PM
The Obama administration sometimes seems to be the embodiment of those hippies and leftists of the 60s and 70s, to whom no liberal cause was too nutty to support, and no corporation was deserving of anything but vilification and, eventually, destruction.
Sometimes the administration's decisions and pronouncements, produce results that are questionable at best. And the logical extension of them, is just plain funny.
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From: Best of the Web Today
by James Taranto
Obama: You'll Pay for My Decision!
"The Obama administration's latest anti-BP volley is a call on the oil giant to pay up big time--not just for economic damages from the Gulf spill but also for lost wages of workers idled by the president's drilling moratorium," Politico reports.
This column has no brief for BP, but for the president to demand that the company pick up the tab for his political reaction to the accident takes chutzpah to new heights. Meanwhile reader Alex Ragen writes:
Dumb question: If the appropriate response to BPs' screwing up in the Gulf is a six-month moratorium on offshore drilling, then should not an appropriate response to the government's ongoing overarching incompetence in every area into which it intrudes, be a six-month moratorium on collecting taxes (never mind imposing new ones) until the correct ass to be kicked is identified and the problem solved?
Alex, there are no dumb questions, only dumb politicians.
Sometimes the administration's decisions and pronouncements, produce results that are questionable at best. And the logical extension of them, is just plain funny.
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http://opinionjournal.com
From: Best of the Web Today
by James Taranto
Obama: You'll Pay for My Decision!
"The Obama administration's latest anti-BP volley is a call on the oil giant to pay up big time--not just for economic damages from the Gulf spill but also for lost wages of workers idled by the president's drilling moratorium," Politico reports.
This column has no brief for BP, but for the president to demand that the company pick up the tab for his political reaction to the accident takes chutzpah to new heights. Meanwhile reader Alex Ragen writes:
Dumb question: If the appropriate response to BPs' screwing up in the Gulf is a six-month moratorium on offshore drilling, then should not an appropriate response to the government's ongoing overarching incompetence in every area into which it intrudes, be a six-month moratorium on collecting taxes (never mind imposing new ones) until the correct ass to be kicked is identified and the problem solved?
Alex, there are no dumb questions, only dumb politicians.