As John Stewart pointed out the pundits from the right have a way of taking something that they previously defended as good policy like the failures of the Bush administration during Katrina and attributing them to the Obama administration with negative connotations.
Let's be clear, the BP oil spill is not Katrina. BP, regardless of my opinion of them, is not a natural disaster. The oil spill is a man made, big business screw up. Katrina required government intervention because it is responsible for the people of this nation and acts of nature are not sponsored by the private sector. BP, Transocean, and Halliburtion all shit the bed on this one. The government seems to have been lacks in its regulatory duties however the people who are trying to pin this on the Obama administration are the very people who call for no government interference in the private sector. Government interference is code for too many regulations. You can't claim to hate regulations and then act like they could have prevented the issue that the private sector created.
Derek Anderson fan says:
ReplyDeleteThere are a lot of people in New Orleans region who would argue that Katrina WAS a man-made disaster. Between the decades of degradation of the wetlands that "protect" New Orleans to the shotty work by the Army Corps of Engineers on the levies... it was made much, much worse by the action (and inaction) of man.