Oil And The Slick Science

For what it's worth - not much! - I do not fault Bama at all for what's happening in the Gulf. This was not the Campaigner-In-Chief's oversight, and there's not a lot he personally can do about it.

What has been telling, and frankly predictable, with this whole mess is the media response. It goes without saying that had this happened under Bush' watch there would have been an immediate coordinated media response with the sole purpose of annihilating the President and exposing all of his "Big Oil" connections as true villains. But that did not happen this time for obvious reasons. It is only in the last couple weeks as the environmentalist left's anger over the spill has burst the pipeline of liberal talking points running from the Administration to the major media outlets that concern has leaked into the airwaves saturating the general public. I hear it every morning on that liberal safe haven NPR.

How much damage this will cause Bama is irrelevant. Its not like lefties are gonna pull the lever for a Republican despite Bama's seemingly stunning lack of leadership on this issue. Last week, on the verge of a likely fix, Bama called a press conference and took responsibility for the fix, Now that that has failed, any guess on how much distance the administration is already negotiating with their buddies in the press to put between the Chief and BP? Bama has proven he is all too willing to say one thing and do another - remember the Health Care Summit when he promised to delay action to consider Republican concerns and then signed the bill two weeks later?

The real wonder is how long he can survive as the Teflon President. Already the slick science of journalism is showing cracks against him for his total disregard for public opinion - they still work within the capitalist model even if he does not, and they cannot protect him indefinitely while viewership/readership continues to sink like BPs stock price. That relationship suffers more everyday for its incestuous proclivity, and Americans are not blind to it.