Thus spake Rudy-9/11-thrustra, on TV today, when asked about his expectations of the Presidential address, tonight.
And thus is, once again, planted an insidious idea in the mind of the public that the Government, which all of those Republicans rail against, is not stepping up on the Gulf Gusher, and it's all Obama's fault.
Listen carefully to the parade of law makers, oil company executives, and wanna-be pols as they line up to deny any responsibility for the spill, and try to create the frame that it's all Obama's failure!
Is it any damned wonder that the polls are showing dissatisfaction with the President, when everyone with their own ax to grind is eager to find a mike and suggest he is just not doing enough?
They create a perception that the President is disengaged. That he is just not paying attention. That he should call in Harry Potter and demand an end to the disaster so we can all go back to lining our pockets with graft from the oil companies, and the spill will be magically gone. If only he would take ownership...
Well don't look now, Toadie, but he doesn't "own" it. You own it. With your decades of worship at the alter of the free market, your incessant demands that all regulation be dissolved and corporation have free reign to rape and pillage the environment to generate obscene profits, and devil take the hind most.
Now you want him to "own" it?
He has been struggling with trying to find a solution to your mess for 2 months. How dare you imply that the President is somehow inadequate to this disaster!
Listen carefully, citizens. And, use those tools of which you are so fond (Twitter, Facebook, etc.) to let the "journalists" know that you find this framing of the issue to be an affront that needs to be challenged by anyone with an ounce of honor.