At first blush this sounds like an outlandish question with a conspiratorial twist. The corollary question goes like this: Is the Obama administration intentionally scaling back clean-up efforts in the Gulf in an attempt to maximize the damage so Democrats in Congress will have an excuse to take effective control over yet another major sector of our economy and impose crippling and draconian new taxes on the American people?
We first learned of this controversy reading Sher Zieve who wrote in the Canada Free Press: "Obama is doing the bare minimum so that destruction will be at an all-time maximum -- in order to shove his Cap and Trade bill (which will complete our destruction) down our throats."
Zieve added: "The BP oil disaster was custom-made for The Obama. The effective oil-skimmer systems utilized by the Saudis and others would work to greatly minimize the damage being caused to the US Gulf Coast. But, The Obama continues to drag his heels as States and lives are destroyed."
Fox News reported that when the Dutch government offered to help us clean up the oil spewing from the leaking BP oil rig, Obama initially turned them down cold. Norwegian and Dutch firms offered to help us too, but Obama said no.
It is reputed that the Roman Emperor Nero played his fiddle while Rome burnt to the ground so he could falsely blame the disaster on Christians and thereby rationalize a campaign of persecution against them.
Is it possible that Barack Hussein Obama and statists on Capitol Hill are using this crisis as an excuse to drive prices up at the pump, drive your utility bills through the roof, regulate your behavior and diminish your standard of living in this already queasy economy?
This much is certain -- despite of what Obama told the American people during his Oval Office address to the nation, he did not adequately respond to this crisis. The administration has clearly failed in terms of organization and the use of resources available to the federal government.
Moreover, it's now indisputable that statists on Capitol Hill are attempting to exploit this disaster to push so-called cap and trade legislation. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell recently revealed: "At the same time as Americans wonder when this gusher will ever be plugged, we hear word that the administration and my good friend the majority leader want to piggy back their controversial new national energy tax -- also known as cap and trade -- to an oil spill response bill that could and should be an opportunity for true bipartisan cooperation. So here again, we see the administration using a crisis, in this case the disaster in the gulf, as an opportunity to muscle through Congress another deeply unpopular bill that has profound implications for small business and struggling households."
But why let something as trivial as the truth get in the way when it comes to pushing an extreme "green" agenda? Liberals like Barack Obama made this problem worse so they could "solve" the problem and, as we've come to expect, they plan to "solve" the problem by making it worse.
So, true to form, Obama declared a moratorium on off-shore drilling and to make matters worse, Obama wants to institute a massive new energy tax, masquerading as sound energy policy (so-called cap and trade), that will dramatically raise the cost of just about everything you produce or consume, deprive you of income, control your behavior and repress your liberties.
Obama's Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, once said that you should never let a good crisis go to waste and Barack Obama and Democrats on Capitol Hill aren't about to let this crisis go to waste. He may pontificate about holding BP to account but Obama and his leftist cronies fully intend to exploit this crisis to sneak liberty-stealing cap and trade legislation past the American people.
Floyd and Mary Beth Brown are bestselling authors and speakers who write a national weekly column. They can be reached at browns@caglecartoons.com.
Irons1 posted at 3:32 pm on Fri, Jun 18, 2010.
Are you for real? "Liberals like Barack Obama made this problem worse so they could "solve" the problem and, as we've come to expect, they plan to "solve" the problem by making it worse." This is straight out of the Rush and Glenn playbook almost word for word. Is this the kind of commentary we can expect from the Tribune from now on. Has this "newspaper" totally gone off the deep end printing this drivel. How can you even give this garbage a second thought if you are a thinking human being? This goes right along with George Bush engineering 9/11 so that he could go to war (and no, I never thought that either). Please, let's at least attempt to rational thoughts published on these pages or at least, publish your principles and then we can know what to expect and not bother visiting this website anymore or your advertisers either. Floyd and Mary Brown are not exactly what anyone would call fair and balanced as anyone could tell by their forming exposeObama.com Conspiracy theories are easy, but one should be careful about what they write without proof
DesertGoddess posted at 4:47 pm on Fri, Jun 18, 2010.
Time to fire the administration. How do we do that? Stop paying them!
Go on a national strike to support our fellow Americans in the gulf that are being hit so hard. Even with BP money, it will be 30-90 days before any is paid out. My bet is it's 90 and how much of the money will actually go to the people?
Vote the bums out in November, which is a good start.
Rich posted at 6:03 am on Sat, Jun 19, 2010.
"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence." - Napoleon
allamer posted at 10:56 pm on Sat, Jun 19, 2010.
It's either intentionally or stupidly.
Slabside posted at 8:53 pm on Sun, Jun 20, 2010.
As usual, irons starts slamming conservative radio show hosts for Obama's incompetency. Irons, why don't you come up with some facts that dispute what we all can see as Obama's lack of response to this crisis? And just what does Bush have to do with this? Walgreens called... your meds are ready for pick up.
john smithson posted at 7:45 am on Tue, Jun 22, 2010.
It's a FACT that the Obama administration has refused efforts by the Belgiums and other nations for assistance. That HAS been reported. Matter of FACT the Belgiums have a ship specifically designed to clean up oil spills. Yet the Obama Admin has refused help. Absolutely they are stonewalling. "Never let a good catastrophe go to waste" if their motto. The most corrupt administration in America's history.