The History Eraser Button
Ken Salazar is a tool. He took over a horrendously f'ed up agency and did, practically, nothing to clean it up. And Salazar is Obama's man, so that makes the current oil spill situation Obama's fault. Partially.
The conditions that allowed the DWH disaster to occur go back before January 20, 2009. Cetainly they continued after that date, but there's no History Eraser Button that gets pressed when a new administration takes over. As much as Republicans would like to pretend there is.
Politicians of both parties think you're so stupid that you believe the policies and programs our government follow (or fail to follow as it were) can change like a direction like a jack rabbit. The ship of state steers more like a cow than a rabbit. Policy changes can take years, sometimes decades to have any effect, often because the courts rule that if one set of regulations is in effect when a project begins, then it is unfair to ask that the same project then adapt, on the fly, to adhere to a new set of regulations. And I think that's pretty reasonable.
So here I am, an Obama guy, openly proclaiming that the BP oil spill is as much the Obama Administration's fault as it is the Bush Administration's fault. I wonder how many Bush apologists will be willing to say it's as much Bush's fault as Obama's?
I won't hold my breath.
Peace. Out.
The conditions that allowed the DWH disaster to occur go back before January 20, 2009. Cetainly they continued after that date, but there's no History Eraser Button that gets pressed when a new administration takes over. As much as Republicans would like to pretend there is.
Politicians of both parties think you're so stupid that you believe the policies and programs our government follow (or fail to follow as it were) can change like a direction like a jack rabbit. The ship of state steers more like a cow than a rabbit. Policy changes can take years, sometimes decades to have any effect, often because the courts rule that if one set of regulations is in effect when a project begins, then it is unfair to ask that the same project then adapt, on the fly, to adhere to a new set of regulations. And I think that's pretty reasonable.
So here I am, an Obama guy, openly proclaiming that the BP oil spill is as much the Obama Administration's fault as it is the Bush Administration's fault. I wonder how many Bush apologists will be willing to say it's as much Bush's fault as Obama's?
I won't hold my breath.
Peace. Out.