Or something. Whatever. Today's idiocy, courtesy of Thomas Friedman and the New York Times, is entitled Obama and the Oil Spill. Here's a shocker. Friedman says Barack Obama has "done a good job coordinating the cleanup so far." But that's not the dumb part. I mean is there anybody that couldn't guess that's what he'd say about it?
No, the inventive Mr. Friedman eschews the obvious parallel between Obama's handling of the Gulf oil spill and George W. Bush's handing of Katrina. Instead goes after Bush for lack of imagination in the immediate aftermath of 9/11.
President Bush’s greatest failure was not Iraq, Afghanistan or Katrina. It was his failure of imagination after 9/11 to mobilize the country to get behind a really big initiative for nation-building in America. I suggested a $1-a-gallon “Patriot Tax” on gasoline...
Picture it. President Bush standing with his arm across the shoulder of an exhausted firefighter in the ruins of the World Trade Center, bullhorn in hand. "and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon." Cause we're gonna tax hell out of 'em!
He's well paid to write this stuff, Friedman.
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