More generally, most of what passes for political discourse today is a mental equivalent of what spews from that pipe under the Gulf of Mexico - mental pollution that is highly toxic to the cultural environment and covers up everything that really matters. Beyond that, it has no effect. So why bringing this excrement to the living room?
Wojtek
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> 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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