Unmasked in Plain Sight

Commentary Magazine "Peter Wehner and Jennifer Rubin have thoroughly dissected the lameness of Obama’s speech last night on the oil spill. I agree with their takes, but was also struck by the reaction of the people in the Frank Luntz citizen panel featured by Sean Hannity in his Fox show after the speech. I expected them to find the speech weak, but I was surprised to hear so many argue that Obama’s rhetoric had focused on getting cap-and-trade legislation passed rather than on responding pragmatically to the oil spill."

Obama Asks America to Commit Suicide

Warning Signs  "The president cited China as a nation pursuing “clean energy”, but the president said nothing of the new coal-fired plants to generate electricity that China has been opening every week in recent years and will continue to do in the years ahead. The president did not mention that China is literally drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Cuba. Like every modern nation, China needs oil.
"America needs oil, but the policies of previous administrations from the 1970s onward have stymied production, shut down existing wells, driven oil companies to seek it anywhere but here!"   Alan Caruba.

Which Way: Chamberlain's Or Churchill's?

Investors.com "With time running out, Israel may decide that a preemptive military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities is its only remaining option to prevent Tehran and its terror surrogates from obtaining nuclear weapons capability. Should Israel take such action, its success can only be guaranteed by the U.S.
"With such high stakes, let's hope that if the critical moment arrives, we are as committed an ally to Israel as Israel has been to the United States. Which way will it be? Chamberlain or Churchill?"

What we didn't hear from Obama last night

American Thinker "Lastly, we didn't hear him propose tax credits to develop our nations 400 year supply of natural gas or at least take the government boot off the neck of the domestic oil and gas industry. But then that would solve a problem and we now know this progressive government has no intention of solving problems - they only exacerbating them to accrete power under the pretense solving them."

Soros hedge fund invests $811m to buy Petrobras stake  From 2008.

Understanding the Tea Party movement

World Magazine   "You cannot understand American politics today without understanding the Tea Party movement. Especially after last Tuesday’s Republican primaries, everyone from the president and the speaker of the House down to the voting citizen should get a handle on it. Get it wrong, and you get everything wrong. It is a truly American movement. It is popular in origin, protective of property, rooted in the Founding, and morally serious."  D.C. Innes; an associate professor of politics at The King's College in New York

The Oval Office address

BP: BARACK PETROLEUM.. AT LEAST THAT IS WHAT DRUDGE IS CALLING IT  "These are just a few examples of government inefficiency. We could go back through history and I guarantee you that you cannot find one government-run program that a rational person could consider efficient. But as I've already said, that is not really the point here, is it? Obama is living a dream right now . Another wonderful crisis he can exploit to further increase the power of our Imperial Federal Government."

 The President's Oil Reserves Lie  "Therefore, if we're tossing all the blame towards BP for this catastrophic oil spill then we're ignoring other perpetrators. The reason BP and other oil companies are drilling 40+ miles off the shoreline and more than a mile deep is because of the stranglehold that environmentalists have held on politicians and their resulting energy policies for decades. Let's use some common sense. Drill first on land, then in water. It's really not that difficult."

MSNBC Trashes Obama's Address: Compared To Carter, “I Don't Sense Executive Command” This is the first of a page full of articles from different sources. When MSNBC trashes Obama you know he has problems. Click the link to see all the articles.

Hey Barack, You Should’ve Done This... "Since his strategy dealing with the spill seems lacking thus far, Redstate editor Erick Erickson has compiled a Top 10 list of things to alleviate the disaster that Obama could have done but didn’t."

Weak Speech from an Indecisive Obama "...the president did not announce a Jones Act waiver to bring foreign-flag tankers into the Gulf area. Nor did he announce a new task force of hands-on experienced oilmen from the likes of ExxonMobil and other big oil sisters who actually know what they are doing." Larry Kudlow

No energy in Obama energy speech  "Also not in evidence was the most serious solution to the problem — nuclear energy. We had the usual palaver about solar and wind, but no reference to the energy source employed so successfully by the French and the Japanese, the one source that could change the situation with some rapidity. Obama probably didn’t want to mention it because his left would be offended. Again, frightened."

Oil and Snake Oil (UPDATED)

Thomas Sowell  "President Obama had barely settled into the White House before he began demonstrating his willingness to sell out this country's friends to appease our enemies. His trip to Moscow to try to make a deal with the Russians, based on reneging on the pre-existing American commitment to put a missile shield in Eastern Europe, was the kind of short-sighted betrayal whose consequences can come back to haunt a nation for years. "

Savage RNC attack on Obama’s cavalier response to the spill  Bookworm Room
"This one should go viral:" (video).

Is President Obama the Worst President in History?

Townhall   "When Obama took office, the national debt was just under $10 trillion. Now it is $12 trillion, and by 2015, it will be at least $19.6 trillion. Unemployment under Obama increased to 9.7 percent, up from 7.6 percent when Bush left office. The inflation rate has yet to explode, but most economists believe it will have to unless Obama drastically raises taxes, destroying the economy even further. Carter can't touch this guy."  Ben Shapiro.

Stuck on Stupid: Obama's Czar Fetish

Michelle Malkin   "Folks in the Gulf don't need any more Romanov-style apparatchiks or blue-ribbon crony panels to show them the way toward relief. Florida public officials and foreign shippers say the protectionist Jones Act is preventing vessels from abroad from providing cleanup aid. And Louisiana GOP Gov. Bobby Jindal has exposed White House obstructionism and delays in approving the construction of barrier walls to stop the oil spread.

"After waiting weeks for approval, Jindal received a green light from the White House to put up just five barrier islands -- a minuscule amount of his plan. Tired of waiting for approval of the rest of his plan, Jindal this week ordered the National Guard to circumvent the Beltway foot-dragging and start building the walls immediately."

A Crisis of Competence

Heritage "Instead of providing leadership and properly coordinating the response, the Obama administration has chosen to shift blame and politicize the disaster, including: 1) “not-at-all veiled shot[s] at the Bush Administration” for the state of the Minerals and Management Service; 2) vague threats of criminal prosecution from Attorney General Eric Holder; 3) a moratorium on offshore oil drilling which could kill 120,000 jobs in the Gulf alone; and 4) pushing caps on carbon dioxide emissions which have no hope of cleaning up a single drop of oil spilled."