Category Archives: oil
Gusher Side Chat
The President’s Oval Office call to arms over BP turning the Gulf of Mexico into the La Brea Tar Pits didn’t play to rave reviews. Here’s Andrew Malcolm in the Los Angeles Times.
Slick
Under White House pressure, BP suspended it’s dividend and established a $20 billion escrow account to help the “small people“. Here’s Steve Chapman’s lowdown on the shakedown.
Curse The Crisis
An insubordinate White House staff ignored President Obama’s order to “plug the damn hole”. That made the president very angry. As he told Matt Lauer , “If you want a job done right…”
Obama then exercised the Emanuel Doctrine, “Never Waste a Crisis”, by recycling an old Cap and Trade bill. Here’s James Delingpole in the UK Telegraph on that.
I.G. on W.M.D.
Adding to the country’s list of apparent unpreparedness, the Inspector General last week reported that the Justice Department is unprepared for a weapons of mass destruction attack. Read the USA Today story here (I drew this cartoon for USA Today).
President Canute
Obama accepted the Democratic nomination two years ago by remarking that the occasion marked the moment when “our planet began to heal” and the “rise of the oceans began to slow”. Mark Steyn riffs on the subject here.
