From Politico:
The ferocious oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico is threatening President Barack Obama’s reputation for competence, just as surely as it endangers the Gulf ecosystem.
So White House aides are escalating their efforts to reassure Congress and the public in the face of a slow-motion catastrophe, even though it’s not clear they can bring it under control anytime soon.
“There is no good answer to this,” one senior administration official said. “There is no readily apparent solution besides one that could take three months. … If it doesn’t show the impotence of the government, it shows the limits of the government.”
Which is fair enough as far as it goes – but it rings hollow from the people who leaped all over President Bush for things he had no control over in the Katrina disaster. Now hoist upon their own petard, they are in a funk as to what to do about it.
It’d be nice to think that the lesson would sink in and in future Democrats would be more, well, decent and patriotic about things, but that won’t happen – when there’s a GOPer in the White House, they’ll fall right back in to their old, nauseating tricks.
Doing the right thing is, at times, difficult – but in the long run, it makes life a heck of a lot easier.
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