[lbo-talk] right-wing ingenuity

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu May 27 06:58:22 PDT 2010


There is nothing the right can't blame on government regulations. Here's American Spectator columnist Ken Blackwell's analysis:

<http://spectator.org/archives/2010/05/27/slick-happens>


> One question we need to ask ourselves: Why is BP drilling one mile
> down and a hundred miles offshore in the first place? Could it be
> that our extra-stringent government regulations have created the
> conditions for this first class environmental emergency?
>
> Could anything imaginable in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
> have a worse environmental impact than what we are seeing in the
> Gulf of Mexico? Could it be more difficult to handle a blowout of an
> oil well up there, even in mid-winter?
>
> Is drilling that far out and that far down necessitated because
> Sierra Club senators won't tolerate the sight of oil rigs closer to
> shore? Why don't we tell them to throw tarps over the platforms and
> paint them to look like historic lighthouses? Tell liberals they can
> collect the whole set.

You've got to admire their tireless ingenuity.

Doug



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