KillswitchPolitick -- Nescience ends here: Charlie Crist

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Crying over spilled oil
36 days into BP’s Gulf of Mexico spill, fingers are being pointed left and right

GULF OF MEXICO—Florida Governor Charlie Crist declared a state of emergency weeks ago and Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal just completed a tour of Plaquemines Parish with its president, Billy Nungesser. Yet that is about the extent of help BP seems to be getting from politicians. Mr. Jindal has been steadily criticizing the Obama administration for not acting to curb the Gulf oil spill that is threatening Louisiana’s shores.

The public has been clamoring for action, but the so-called fixes have done nothing to stop the spill. What is most curious is the fact the Obama administration’s handling of the disaster which is to say, its non-handling.

I think myself to be a bit correct in my earlier assertion that the administration doesn’t want its fingerprints on this and is perhaps leveraging a political “we told you so” against future drilling. On May 4^th, I wrote, “…it would seem quite plausible the Obama administration’s delayed response and laissez faire approach may be another calculated strategy to allow the federal government a path into the oil industry…”

This point I maintain as it now seems more likely. However what many fail to understand (myself included) is the political fallout that’s already beginning. The longer the Obama administration waits to take over, the more damage it will do to the president.

-- Owen E. Richason IV

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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Crist loses his lead; primaries seen as a foreteller of November
Polls aren’t favorable for rhinos, spendthrift republicans, or liberals

WASHINGTON, DC—Appearing of FOX News, Charles Krauthammer said about Tuesday's primary elections, "I think what is more likely is that it's basically anti-big government, anti-Obama, anti-the left wing agenda. It's not so much anti-incumbent. That's an element of it. But I think the major element of this campaign is the pressure from the right."

What do Blanche Lincoln, Arlen Specter, Charlie Crist, and Harry Reid all have in common? Certainly not party affiliation, but each did endorse Barack Obama’s agenda. The infamous hug Crist and Obama shared over the stimulus package was the catalyst for the Florida Governor’s primary woes against Marco Rubio who again leads the three way senate race over Crist and democrat candidate Kendrick Meek 39, 31, to 18 percent respectively.

What’s more is a prediction by the Director of University of Virginia’s Center for Politics Larry Sabato who sees the GOP gaining seven senate seats and twenty-seven house seats in November given the fiscal irresponsibility of the democrat majority in Washington.

Of course, there have already been three major republican victories in Virginia, New Jersey, and Massachusetts and each was predicated on opposing and defeating the Obama agenda. With the jobless rate remaining close to 10 percent and continued terrorist attack attempts, that pattern is not likely to change.