The anti-terrorism strategy so far has been to bow and scrape, and admit faults, and hope nothing bad happens. The product of that failed policy has been for our enemies to take advantage of us while continuing to hate us more than ever, with a jihadi gunman successfully killing at fort Hood while two Bombs that were meant to kill hundreds (fortunately) failed.
This hands off approach (coincidentally?) appears to be the same strategywhen dealing with BP. After a week long silence we were barraged with speeches about how they’d all been responding "from day one." Well its been thirty days or more since "day one," and the Obama administration has done nothing except blame BP, ask BP what they were going to do about it, and wait for them to do it.
Now we have oil on the Louisiana Coastline.
What happened to the ‘From Day one’ people? Where’d they go? They went into the situation room to plot the media strategy on how to use the crisis of oil washing up on coastal beeches to advance their left wing energy policy.
You doubt me?
A bank gets a bonus and we’ve got union activists on the doorsteps of bank employees and legislation already written coming out of committee.
The supreme court overturns federal speech restrictions and there’s a massive outcry, constitutional amendments, and bills in both houses of congress the next morning.
The race pimps are on standby 24/7 to promulgate a massive media blitz against anyone and anything that demonstrates any behavior that could be construed as racism–to the point of making it up when it fails to happen when they’d like it to.
If Obama wanted SEIU guys on the coast building barriers and spying for oil slicks, you don’t think he could make it happen overnight? Damn right he could, but he didn’t and you know why. He needs big oil to look bad and if he has to give up some coastline (the way he gives up democrat legislators, for examle) then that’s the price we’ll have to pay to advance his agenda.
That’s just the kind of guy he is, from day one.
Cross Posted from NH Insider