I'd seen a headline for this story yesterday on Drudge, but the link was actually bad, so I couldn't confirm until this morning
In the wake of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, President Obama today summoned a bipartisan group of over 20 senators to the White House to push for energy and climate change legislation.Match that in with the Biden "visit" that turned into a 30-second photo-op (I'm guessing that the WH told him to keep his gaffe-yap shut?), and yeah, I'd say the "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" comic falls in line.
But one thing the President did not want to talk about at the meeting was the BP disaster, a Republican source told ABC News. And that, the source said, led to a pointed exchange with GOP senator Lamar Alexander from Tennessee.
“The priority should be fixing the oil spill,” Alexander told the President, according to the source. “That's what any meeting about energy should be about.”
But when Alexander tried to interject the BP leak into the meeting, the source said, the President told the senator, “That’s just your talking point.”
Retorted Alexander, “No, it’s my opinion.”
Obama told America that if we can win WWII and put a man on the moon, we can plug this leak and solve our dependency on fossil fuels.
ReplyDeleteBut there's a missing piece: the soldiers in WWII had the Pentagon and Neil Armstrong had NASA. What's the man on the street supposed to do to solve the fossil fuel problem? Is it time for an organized, funded effort? One that will prevent crises like the spill from happening while figuring out a way to get off of fossil fuel?
The following link is to a satirical video, but it underscores this issue in real terms.
Link: You're Soaking In It