PJ Media

This incredible show of incompetence and malfeasance should not surprise anyone. Doesnt it track the same pattern as the Health Care legislation? It took Obama a year to drag that bill through Congress with a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate and the House under the iron-fisted control of his political allies. There was no evidence of any kind of leadership at any point in that maladroit process. Now he is doing the same thing with the BP oil spill. The actions he is taking, and the actions he refuses to take (suspending the Jones Act and allowing the barrier islands to be constructed) show a complete disregard for anything but his own political convenience and bizarre ideological preconceptions. The most amazing irony of the whole situation is the rage his policy of preventing BP from paying any dividends has stirred up across the Atlantic in our former ally of Great Britain. While he was attacking the ‘P’ (petroleum, always a boogie-man of the left) he didnt have any thought that the ‘B’ (Britain) would react at all. It turns out that British pensioners looked on their country’s largest corporation as a secure source of retirement income just like pensioners in this country relied on GM a generation ago. There is RAGE over there as dividends are stopped and the stock becomes virtually worthless. I’m sure Obama thought that the main shareholders were New Age lefty fatcats like the ones who contributed so generously to his campaign and didnt give a thought to the pension funds and grandmothers he has left out in the cold. Luckily the media have given him a pass on the cozy financial relationship between the Dems and BP and the MMS’s curious lack of action on the 750+ safety violations BP had wracked up in contrast to the other oil companies in the Gulf. This is the worst President in American history and if he sneaks Cap and Tax past the voters in a lame-duck session of Congress this autumn the weak economy will completely collapse.