In what must be a groundbreaking story, Howard Kurtz, media critic of the Washington Post, jumped on the Republican bandwagon and criticized President Obama's complaints about the "cozy relationship between oil companies and the federal agency that permits them to drill."
Gee Howie, why didn't Obama go after off-shore drilling with more gusto? Could it be that the “Drill, Baby, Drill” crowd was dominating discussion and that with every single vote needed to get health care passed it didn't make sense to piss off the anti-regulation crowd?
I'm sure it would have played well earlier this year for Obama to come out and say we need tighter regulation of the oil industry. All the oil people, from Palin to Cheney, would have come out and said Obama was trying to make the U.S. less secure by limiting oil exploration.
Yet none of this was mentioned. Why should it? It would only mess up the article with, you know, background information and perspective. And without that kind of information the ill informed can continue their rampage on government.
It’s going to take a long time to get regulatory agencies to actually regulate again and probably will take more accidents to shut up the naysayers and allow regulation to take effect.
It's a lot easier to take pot shots at the government for not regulating enough in an anti-regulation environment than to put the pieces together and ask is it time to stop questioning regulation and allow them to regulate?
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