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Obama Has a "Boot on the Throat" Of the Global Economy

Ahenobarbus Wrote: Jun 14, 2010 7:33 PM
Obama is viewing this as an opportunity to give cap and trade new life. I'm looking at the interference being run by this administration, in addition to his ongoing game of pretending that his EPA does not answer to him, and the only reasonable conclusion I can see is that he wants this to be as bad as it can possibly be. Why else have so many barriers to cleanup been allowed to remain in place when they could so easily have been removed? Why has a waiver of the Jones Act never been considered. Why is Bobby Jindal being left to pound salt rather than allowed to build sand barriers?

The devastation of our coastline is the worst part of it.

But, oh, the painful lessons of the Gulf oil spill.

Let’s start with the “lessons” to which President Obama is currently being subjected. Hopefully Mr. Obama now understands that it is an “art” (and clearly not a “science”) for a President to know how, and when, and in what circumstances to intervene, and what stance to take with the challenges at hand.

Herbert Hoover and Franklin D Roosevelt responded inadequately to the “Great Depression.” John F. Kennedy mishandled the “Bay of Pigs” incident. Jimmy Carter bungled...