Krugman makes predictions on just how it is that Obama will be blamed for the oil platform explosion and subsequent mess:
Will it be claims that liberals and/or scientific conspirators sabotaged the rig, to undermine good Americans who want to drillheredrillnow? (Michael Crichton already wrote that novel).
Will it be that oil workers, demoralized by the march of socialism, fell into despair and let the accident happen?
Will it be claims that since this didn’t happen under Bush, it obviously shows that Obamanomics is responsible?
Apparently Rush has already started in on choice #1.
I think my vote is more along the lines of
“…and I think it’s clear that this accident only happened because we aren’t drilling enough. These poor companies are over-working what they have because they can’t make a walkable ring of oil platforms that encircles Florida. This sort of lunatic under-drilling leads directly to the sort of accidents we’ve seen off the coast of Louisiana, Wolf. That, and I might just mention that Biden used the F-word.”
Which, by the way, I’m for installing. So there’s that. Thank me later, Florida.
Wolf’s answer to that statement, you ask?
“Alright, we have to leave it there.”
What the fuck else does he ever say?
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