Jonathan Hiskes on Obama and the BP oil spill (via):
What happened to never letting a crisis go to waste? This mother of a crisis runs straight into our fossil-fuel addiction. It's a prime opportunity for progressives and clean-energy advocates to demonstrate the desperate need for new forms of energy. It's a prime opportunity to pressure the Senate to put a price on carbon pollution and invest in the R&D necessary to jump-start a clean energy economy. It's a prime opportunity to do all this without the corrupting influence of Big Oil, which had a hand in writing the elusive Kerry-Graham-Lieberman energy bill. Executives from BP--the company responsible for this mess--and Chevron and ConocoPhillips were planning to stand in support at the rollout of the KGL bill this week. Now's the chance to move a bill that isn't contorted by concessions to the dirty energy industries.
The president doesn't get this, according to his public actions and words so far. He's promised investigations and inspections and put new offshore drilling projects on temporary hold, until we can get more assurances of safety from the drilling industry. But on the big energy picture ... nothing.
I have to admit that I'm still stunned that some are discovering that Obama likes to take his time, that he is more practical than passionate and that he isn't a risk taker when he is unsure of the outcome or believe that an act will cost him politically. Could Obama be tougher on BP? Yes, but he doesn't have to. The people, like Hiskes, who want him to be tougher and bolder are going to stick with him no matter what he does so he doesn't have to do anything to keep to please them. They are so in love with him that they will stay committed to him like a good old fashioned wife remains saintly faithful to her cheating husband because she believes that he is the best thing that ever happened to her and she will never find any one better even though she might deserve better.
In short, Obama doesn't have to please the left or environmentalists, they are desperately in love with him. He just has remain on the center while being applauded by the press and the pundits for cheating on the people who love the most and for exhibiting fake, but flashy audacity which camouflages the fact that it is killing the puerile hope that people had in Obamamism.
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