Archive for May, 2010

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Herman Cain

The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is plagued by finger pointing and government bureaucracy. Nearly 40 days after the tragedy in the Gulf president Obama made a “photo op” visit to Louisiana, while his administration Cabinet heads were still jockeying for “who’s in charge” when it is clear that nobody is in charge, not even the president.

What are they waiting for?

Despite the unprecedented technical challenges of stopping the massive oil leak at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, the lack of leadership in coordinating the various federal, state and local agencies and their respective functions in this ecological disaster is even worse.

This dangerous lack of leadership starts with the president and his unmanageable executive structure. This is bad for our nation, because it impedes the ability to get the right things done at the right time. Just look at the handling of the tragedy in the Gulf.

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Think long-term here: All this oil is gushing like crazy into the Gulf of Mexico. What will eventually happen to it? Eventually, nature will cleanse itself, as nature always does.

According to this guy, they can dilute it into little droplets small enough for bacteria to eat. That, of course, brings the worry this will deplete all the oxygen in the water.

We’re glad it’s not our job to figure this out. Video courtesy of CBS News.

Bob Franken

They are the free marketeers, those who advocate that corporations should be free-to- cheat-and-harm and-do-whatever-the-hell-they-want. They are the ones who wring their hands in op-eds and on cable news, easy “gets” for the bookers and editors who need to fill time or column inches or their own pages on Facebook and their own fund raising blogs.

Livin' it up with our cash.

Sad to say it’s hard to refute one of their main propaganda points: Regulation doesn’t work. It doesn’t but it should. We don’t need to look very far to see the mortal danger of uninhibited commerce. We can compile a long list of examples from the news…a list of companies where any concern for the lives and welfare of everyone else has been overridden by careless and shameless greed.

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We offer this video not because it tells us anything worthwhile about the oil spill, but because it demonstrates how completely obsessed the legacy media are with the politics of everything.

Seriously, dude, you trot out a guy from freaking Politico to tell us how the oil spill will affect Obama’s approval ratings?

This is what passes for news to these people, and this is one of the reasons (but only one) that they’re losing viewers in droves.

Mark Watson

An old country saying describes the current presidential administration:

“Nothing’s impossible for the man who doesn’t have to do anything.”

When Barack Obama ostensibly lashed out at his underlings to, “just plug the hole”, he demonstrated again that he had never actually had to do anything before moving into 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

No idea.

Obama’s reaction to the Gulf oil rig explosion has been to find political purchase in demonizing British Petroleum.

Clearly Obama believes that if he finds enough demons to blame, a solution will erupt.

Just what one would expect from someone who’s never had to do anything. What a leader. Obama simply doesn’t know what to do and he wants others to make this and other problems go away.

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“This douchebag was on my damn screen talking about a frickin’ damn tornado that wasn’t anywhere even near me. I don’t appreciate that bullshit. It would be different if it was near me.”

Lawrence J. Haas

Debates about taxes and spending in America are fought on two levels, the ideological and the pragmatic. The first gets far more attention, but the second reflects an equally important feature of the American character.

Americans want lower taxes, but not at the expense of social services.

At the ideological level, Americans distrust government, worry when they think it’s growing too big and believe that it produces all sorts of “waste, fraud and abuse” that could easily be eliminated.

Today, the ideological side is playing out at the federal level through the Tea Party movement, the more generalized public unease over government’s growth under President Obama and a Democrat-run Congress, the political problems of congressional incumbents, and polls showing trust in the federal government at historic lows.

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Bruce Fisher

American civilization has its perfect expression in Union Road, in the entirety of its run from Orchard Park to Williamsville. Union Road is a succession of strip malls that link the marquee suburbs of Western New York. It is what the anti-suburbanites call “Generica,” and it is a refutation of every fond hope for “smart growth,” “new urbanism,” “transit-oriented development,” and “green infrastructure,” because Union Road is all about automobiles.

Just what we need.

If gasoline spikes in price again as it did in 2008, whether because Goldman Sachs speculators bid oil futures up, or because the BP disaster in the Gulf gets worse, or because Sarah Palin and Ron Paul’s racist spawn win the mid-term elections, Union Road will be just one more suburban commercial thoroughfare clogged with angry consumers with not enough money to shop because their cars ate all their discretionary disposable income.

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