Leaks and LiesBy convicted felon Oliver North | June 21, 2010
For two months the Obama administration has been skirting the truth about its inept response to the April 20 BP Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion, fire and the world's largest crude oil spill. The O-Team claims it has been on top of this problem since Day One. Reality shows both the leaks and lies continue.
On June 15, Mr. Obama, master and commander of the Tele-Prompter, tried using his first address from the Oval Office to convince the American people that his team was doing all that could be done in handling "the worst environmental disaster America has ever faced." It was, even his supporters agree, a failure.
It's not that the president and his speechwriters didn't try. He attempted to emote. He tried to express his anger at BP's "recklessness." Having previously likened the Gulf catastrophe to the terror attack of 9-11-01, he referred to "our brave men and women in uniform." He even described his plan for dealing with millions of gallons of petroleum spewing into the Gulf of Mexico as a "battle we're waging," and said the oil is "assaulting our shores and our citizens." He then went on to lay out his "battle plan."
By the end of Mr. Obama's blessedly brief remarks, it was apparent the only new resources he's committing to "fight" this "epidemic" -- his words, not mine -- are lawyers and "the deployment of over 17,000 National Guard members along the coast." He went on to "urge the governors in the affected states to activate these troops as soon as possible." The contrast between the number of uniformed personnel being sent to the Gulf Coast states and the paltry 1,200 dispatched to help protect our southern border from a tidal wave of violence was inescapable.
So too is the evidence of political opportunism, egregious error and outright fabrication in what the O-Team claims to have done -- and what it plans to do -- in responding to the catastrophe. The very fact that Mr. Obama devoted nearly a third of his Oval Office remarks to advancing his Cap-and-Trade energy plan is proof that the administration still lives by Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel's maxim: "Never let a good crisis go to waste."
unhappycamper comment: STFU Ollie.