It's easy to be critical of the government's response to the BP oil disaster. It's easy even to shrug off the President getting $20 billion for the people of the gulf as too little in the face of the size of the catastrophe. But to turn the focus of the discussion of this calamity away from the environment itself, away from oil dependency, away from lethal corporate misdeeds and onto the President -- well, even my dog can't bear to see that. Here's what she was talking about yesterday at the dog park when she ran into a fox terrier. And as always, there's more at www.liberaldoodle.com.
The "mixed" dog looks like Bo Obama and the wire haired terrier is sniffing in all the right places.
So when exactly do we get to be angry at the president for not plugging the hole? Two or three golf games from now? Four?
Nero fiddles...
Ultimately, the blame rests with those who allowed these abuses to persist. That would be "we, the people." So by all means be angry, but put the anger where it does the most good. Start being vocal about demanding a government representative who represents you, rather than the corporations who paid them the most. Demand lobby reform, voting reform, transparency and an enforcement of conflict of interest among legislators. We just might stand a chance of cleaning up our government just about the time the climate change clock goes from "critical" to "panic."