Yes. Yes, this ‘big government, federal override of the states’ thing is working out ever so well.
A popular section of Pensacola Beach has been closed because of oil that washed ashore there.
Government officials closed about a quarter-mile section of Casino Beach on Thursday. Thick pools of oil washed ashore there Wednesday.
Via Gateway Pundit, via Instapundit. But never fear: the White House in on the case! Continue reading Pensacola Beach closed due to Obamaspill.
He’s very indignant about what’s happening with the Obamaspill right now.
If you talk to elected leaders from Louisiana to Florida, they fill your ears with tales of incompetence — of advice that was not heeded, of red tape stifling effective operations, of local knowledge that was cast aside and trampled.
He is so indignant about this, in fact, that if this was the only thing that David Brooks had ever wrote you would be forgiven for concluding that David Brooks did not spend the last election cycle helping to get elected President the man who is now busily mucking up coordinating the cleanup. Which is, indeed, so mucked up that local governments are preemptively announcing that they’re not going to wait for the Feds to do to them what the Feds have done to Louisiana.
And, believe me, I can spend the next three paragraphs cataloging all the ways that the government has mucked and is mucking up up the Gulf recovery effort. So it’d be nice if you mentioned from time to time just how big your lapse in judgment was in 2008, Brooks. Particularly since, if things had gone the other way, this crisis would have been a perfect match for THAT WOMAN’S skill set and experience.
And doesn’t experience matter, Brooks?
Moe Lane Continue reading #rsrh David Brooks hates him some technocrats.
I don’t know if Frank Luntz’s focus groups are what you would call reliable, but they’re rarely dull. And this one is pretty darn ornery over the way that the administration is handling Obamaspill.
Via The Right Scoop, via AoSHQ – who also has some very useful advice to Republican legislators on how to deal with the President’s attempts to redefine ‘success’ on this issue from ‘solve the actual problem’ to ‘accomplishing something within the President’s limited core competencies.’
Crossposted to RedState.
…by belatedly canceling a Democratic fundraising appearance:
Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa Jackson has canceled her appearance at a Democrat fundraiser hours after Politico published a story detailing that engagement.
Jackson was scheduled to appear at a breakfast in Manhattan Thursday to benefit the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. An EPA spokesman noted that the appearance was scheduled before the oil spill occurred.
Continue reading EPA’s Lisa Jackson admits responsibility to Gulf…
