Okay, short and sweet. Herewith a few thoughts on the oil
spill, President Obama, marine and land life, truth, and
consequences.
1.) President Obama has famously asked what he could have
done personally about the oil spill. He said he could not swim
down there and suck up the oil with a straw, and he’s
right.
But when Norway and the Netherlands offered to send the
world’s best oil skimming ships to the Gulf to help, Mr. Obama
turned them down flat. He did this entirely to protect his pals
in the maritime shipping unions. Okay, that’s what we expect from
a left-wing Democrat. But if we cannot plug that gusher
underwater, wouldn’t skimming up the oil be the next best thing?
How can Mr. Obama not face serious charges about protecting a few
hundred union jobs and killing the Gulf Coast?
And why doesn’t he change his mind right now and ask every
country in the world to help us?
2.) Mr. Obama has been using this terrible accident to
blame and castigate the oil companies. Inasmuch as the big oil
companies are literally the only people on the planet who have
even a clue about how to deal with the crisis, shouldn’t he act
nice to them instead of humiliating them? If your house is on
fire, you politely ask the neighbors for help. You don’t yell at
them and call them names. Why not ask them nicely to help and see
what response you get? How can that possibly hurt?
3.) The criminal investigation and prosecution powers of
the Justice Department are awesome powers. For the President to
sic Eric Holder, the Attorney General, and his hounds on BP
without even having a clue if there were a criminal violation is
way too much like the actions of a Molotov, Stalin’s prosecutor
in his show trials, and much too little like what we expect under
the Constitution, where even the most hated are presumed to have
rights (unless they are in the oil business, in which case they
are automatically guilty).
4.) I can always tell which people have never read the
Constitution and/or have no idea of Constitutional law by who
says, “It doesn’t matter that the law does not allow Mr. Obama to
just extort money out of BP’s shareholders — most of whom are
widows and pensioners. He can do it anyway because the situation
is urgent and a crisis.”
The Constitution makes no exceptions about limiting the
President’s powers if he deems an event a crisis. The
Constitution is a document of enumerated and limited powers for
each of the three branches and for the federal government itself.
Nowhere does it say, “However, if the President says it’s a
crisis, he can do anything he pleases and this document means
nothing.”
The whole point of the Constitution is that it is in
control no matter how dire the situation. The fact that Mr. Obama
does not recognize this, and that when one lone Congressman
points it out he gets spit on by his colleagues, is deeply
frightening. The truth that the media almost never calls him on
it is even more worrisome.
5.) I get a particularly sick feeling when I see the media
talking about how BP and the oil spill is killing precious marine
life and rare animal life in the wetlands.
President Obama is the most anti-preservationist President
in the postwar world. His administration is the first ever not to
sign up for strict anti-whaling laws on a worldwide basis. His
administration has refused to join with almost every other
civilized nation to require Japan and Norway to stop killing
whales. His administration is the first ever not to get behind
the worldwide effort to ban the trade in ivory and thereby stop
the slaughter of elephants in Africa.
Because of Mr. Obama’s explicit contempt for these noble
and endangered creatures, African elephants and whales worldwide
will be slaughtered almost to the point of extinction. When they
are gone, will we remember that their precious blood is on his
hands?
If Mr. Obama is so concerned about pelicans and seagulls
and beautiful creatures of the wild, will he commit to using his
mighty powers to do what every other postwar President has done
and pledge to stop the killers of whales and African elephants?
Of course not, because he will never stand up to African
dictators and Japanese ultra-rightists. He will only bully oil
companies who do not fight back.
This man is showing more of who he is day by day and it is
a disturbing vision. This is less than two years into his
administration. It is later than any dare think.
