"Obama's Katrina" should be a clarion call for mass transit, a clarion call for renewable energy, a new bailout bill that says "buy an electric car, trading in your internal combustion engine and here's a $6,500 check and a $5,000 tax rebate for the next four years and oh, by the way, there's a $7 a gallon tax on gas too."
The earth may not be able to survive "Obama's Katrina." That's what's happening in the gulf. I heard a discussion talking about bombing the leak and the theory from the folks who brought you this mess in the first place is the whole thing imploding on top of itself and the leak sealing itself. Cool. What a great idea. Super.
And when that doesn't work and instead of a few leaks in a little spot, we traumatically and dramatically upset the ecological foundation of the earth and perhaps the Gulf becomes a giant sink hole, or maybe we unleash who knows what chemical, or Armageddon is the new way we spell Gulf of Mexico--what then? What then? We fly off to our sister planet and thank our lucky stars such a place exists?
Tomorrow morning, a couple of hours before work, I'm going to, for the first time in 30 years get on a new bicycle I broke in this weekend and make my way to work. And the following day I'm going to do it again. And the day after that, and the day after that, and the day...
"Obama's Katrina" shouldn't be a conflated blob of nonsense from the Big Fat One and douche baggers everywhere, but a clarion call. That's my criticism of President Obama's response. The last President told us to shop; this President needs to call us to action and to sacrifice. That's my criticism.
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