As the idiocy goes on - the people behind the NY Times lead online page seem to have completely lost their wits, with ideology-tinged blitherings leading the site for two consecutive days this week (one about Obama's "overreach" when dealing with corporations, the other stupidly wondering just how big is the Gulf oil disaster...smaller than it seems, they would have it)...with all this idiocy, there's always Frank Rich. He came up with this gem today: While the greatest environmental disaster in our history is a trying juncture for Obama, it also provides him with a nearly unparalleled opening to make his and government’s case. The spill’s sole positive benefit has been to unambiguously expose the hard right, for all its populist pandering to the Tea Partiers, as a stalking horse for its most rapacious corporate patrons. If this president can speak lucidly of race to America, he can certainly explain how the antigovernment crusaders are often the paid toadies of bad actors like BP. Such big corporations are only too glad to replace big government with governance of their own, by their own, and for their own profit — while the “small people” are left to eat cake at their tea parties.
Damn straight.
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