“Politically, Ken Salazar had to begin to relieve some of the pressure that gas prices were exerting on the administration,” said Kish. “He was running out of excuses and with Congress no longer rubber-stamping or ignoring his anti-energy policies, he had to issue at least one permit to placate the Hill.” (HT:The Daily Caller) Secretary of The Interior, Ken Salazar, has long advocated on behalf | Read More »
President Obama laid an egg on national TV last night. The Boston Celtics followed with their own egg laying against the Lakers. Obama is in the process of losing his base, as evidenced by the scathing analysis by three Obama cheerleaders at MSDNC (via RCP) Keith Olbermann – “I thought it was a great speech if you lived on another planet for the past 57 days.” | Read More »
The President will address the nation from the Oval Office this evening. Like many of the President’s actions during the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, this speech may be a day late and a dollar short. President Obama will have to explain why he has not taken responsibility for his slow and distracted response to the crisis and avoid his natural urge to blame to others for | Read More »
Tonight, President Obama will speak to the country from the Oval Office for the first time in an effort to recover from his disastrous response to the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The president will try to push back against the perception among the American people that he and his administration don’t know what they’re doing when it comes to the spill—a | Read More »
Conservatives argue that government usually makes a situation worse when it tries to help. A great example of this is the decision by President Obama to impose a drilling moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico in the wake of the spill. From the LA Times, “Interior Secretary Ken Salazar also reassured congressional representatives from the beleaguered gulf states that a six-month moratorium on drilling that | Read More »
At least four hearings today in the House and Senate on the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. This is becoming a big problem for the Obama Administration, because Obama Administration officials and President Obama himself, just don’t seem to be responding quickly to emerging threats. There is no official of the Obama Administration taking point on the situation to explain to the American people | Read More »
This is one of the best sentences written about government lately. I was led to believe that a powerful and active federal government would be good for society at large, but unfortunately the federal government’s ability to be powerful and active is not as pronounced as its ability to be large, meddlesome when its help is not wanted, and slothful when its help is actually | Read More »
There was the delayed response. There was the worrying about the image. There was the lack of resources. No, I’m not talking about Hurricane Katrina, but the Obama Administration’s handling of the British Petroleum oil spill. But it gets better. It is not only like Bush’s Katrina, but like Halliburton too. Turns out Barack Obama has gotten more money from British Petroleum than any other | Read More »
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