Rush Limbaugh must have been a fantastic bully in grade school. And I don't just say that as one of the typical liberal attacks on the man. I say that because if he has a singular skill, something he's just REALLY GOOD at, it's making up goofy names for things that stick in people's heads. He was like that kid in school (usually the bully or one of his lackey's) that could find some rhyming, vulgar perversion of pretty much ANYONE'S name. Something that made a really catchy chant or something. Remember: This is the guy who coined terms like Feminazi, Testicle Lockbox, etc... Most of these are just purile and offensive of course, but evey now and then - credit where it's due - there are some real gems.
And his latest - Obama's "Bay of Rigs?" Come on - that's pretty clever, no? I mean, yeah... It missies the mark completely and is a pretty pathetic attempt to blame Obama for... what? Not banning all off-shore drilling, and hence given them a change to portray as some kind of paranoid environmentalist for not allowing the practice that led to the disaster that they're now trying to blame on him... You know what? Let's not even try to follow thier "reasoning" there. So much circular login and catch-22's make me dizzy. Gives me a headache.
But "Bay of Rigs" is still way better than the media once again trotting out "Obama's Waterloo." I mean...How many Waterloo's can one fascist, communist dictator HAVE anyway? If Napolean was allowed this many Waterloo's, he could have taken over the entire world. Or "Obama's Katrina." I don't recall 20,000 people, 1,300 vessels and [the hurricaine equivalent of] almost 2 Million feet of containment boom being sent to 17 different staging areas to protect said areas during Katrina. I remember some Jackass from Texas doing a fly-by, playing air guitar and saying "heckova job, Brownie." They may WANT this to be Obama's "Katrina" - as in, the moment that the public starts to turn on him in a big way, like they did on Bush. There's only one problem: You can't just SAY "Katrina" over and over again and somehow make it so. There needs to be a collossal fuck-up on his part (you know, kind of like during Hurricane Katrina?) for the meme to have any teeth.
As for the "Waterloo" comparison? This is far more likely to be BP's "Waterloo" or the Oil Indusury's "Waterloo" or Off-Shore Drilling's "Waterloo" than Obama's. I mean... who was the Party of "Drill Baby Drill"? Who's the party that's always poo-pooing environmentalistrs, government regulators, industry watchdogs, etc... I'm telling you. This should be the REPUBLICANS' "Waterloo" or - since they're all a bunch of cowboys, and they hate French so much anyway - the Republicans' "Alamo." (Considering how much they all "remember the Alamo" it's funny that they always seem to forget that we LOST at the Alamo. LOL)
Do you know what I'd be doing from now until November if I were runnign for office as a Democrat? I'd be constantly running a commercial which starts out with the Drill-Baby-Drill chant, complete with the most recognizable icons of the Republican Party (Palin, Bush, the guy I'd be running against...) and have it slowly morph so that by the end the chant has changed to SPILL, BABY SPILL. Maybe turn the Republican Logo into something like this:
(Mastodons stuck in the Tar Pits)
Because this disaster can only REALLY be a problem for the Republicans. There's no way to completely pevent something like from happening and, as BP has been busy proving for the last month, there's no way to fix it if it does. About the time this shit starts washing up on the beaches of the British Isles, maybe people will start realizing what a disastrous energy policy it really is! And they're the ones that have been puching so hard for it all these decades! Heckuva of a job, Pub's!
But there's something here that the conservative mind can't seem to wrap it's head around: It's not about what happens on who's watch. Nor is it the PERSON who makes a policy good or bad. If you ever bring up George W. Bush to a conservative, many are quick to acknowledge the failure of the MAN, even as they aregue for the very policies he supported! It's like the problem was just Bush and Bush alone and not the policies he advocated for - like, oh, I don't know... Scrapping Kyoto and pushing for expanded drilling, perhaps? And they assume that we think the same way - that we flocked to Obama on the basis of the man alone. That somehow if they could just tarnish the Obama brand, people will go back to their brand. And granted... some will. Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck have made a career out of this phenonmenon. But what is lost of these fools is that Liberals never viewed Obama as this Messiah figure that they tried to lampoon him as. He could never be our George W. Bush, becuase we never invested so much of our faith and hope in him they way they did with Bush. We have no problem criticizing Obama. In fact... the more liberal you are, the more likely it seems that you'd be willing to take him to task. But they just don't get this. They just don't understand that we don't follow our politicians in a sheep-like manner the way they do. That's the Democrat's biggest problem as a party: No unity! The Republican's all march in lockstep, and yet somehow WE'RE the "sheep!" WTF?
Now granted... Obama probably has SOME egg on his face for announcing expanded of shore drilling a mere two (?) weeks before the exploision that kicked off this disaster. But this rig's permit was not granted as a result of that statement and you can bet he's going to go back on that statement big time moving forward. Otherwise this really would be his "Waterloo." And Rush Limbaugh can whine all he wants how how environmentalists are "happy" about this disaster. We get no satisafaction out of saying "I told you so." What can't be ignored is that we were right, they were wrong, and our ENERGY POLICY needs to change. The short term damage is now every bit as serious and the long-term consequences. But the public needs to be constantly reminded who was REALLY advocating for this policy. Becuase it's not just about WHO is in charge, but WHAT THEY STAND FOR. And "more of the same" should no longer be palatable to ANYONE.
"Bay of Rigs" is still pretty funny though... Let's just make sure it's appled to the Republicans, K?
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