In the summer of 2005, President George W. Bush was faced with a disaster of epic proportions, with the post-hurricane flooding of New Orleans.   Hurricane Katrina passed through the Louisiana coastline causing nowhere near the wind damage the experts predicted.  The nation exhaled a collective sigh of relief upon learning of the relatively minor destruction Katrina’s winds caused to the Crescent City.  Reports on the storm surge from neighboring Gulf shorelines then began to trickle in.  In the following days, the floodgates opened – literally.  Years of neglect by corrupt state and local officials, of the New Orleans levees which provide protection to the below-sea-level city, caused the artificial barriers to fail under the pressure of Katrina’s storm surge.  

The Federal Government began to mobilize.  The National Guard, the Coast Guard, and FEMA all descended upon New Orleans within 24 to 48 hours.  It was during this time that the President was harshly criticized for not being there sooner.  Overlooking the fact that historically, first responders in the aftermath of natural disasters are comprised of state and local teams, the Mediacrats seeking to politicize the disaster, launched their vitriolic verbal hand grenades at the Bush Administration.   They even went as far as to make it a racial issue – remember “George Bush hates Black people?”

Fast-forward to the spring of 2010 and we have a Black Democrat in the White House.  Another disaster of epic proportions hits the same region of the country.  It has been over a month and still no definitive action from our president.  Sure, there has been political posturing and repeat performances of the blame game.  However, there has been no leadership emanating from Washington, DC, no assistance for the thousands of Americans gravely affected by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and no racial epithets hurled at the President.

A major difference between Katrina in 2005 and Deepwater Horizon currently, is the absence of a feigned outcry from the Mainstream Media.  The Mediacrats have changed the playing field altogether.  It is no longer up to the Federal Government to protect us and comfort us during this disaster.  The President cannot be expected to solve a problem he knows nothing about.  Besides, BP is the culprit and it is an oil company.  Ergo, Bush and Cheney are to blame. 

 If blame is of pinnacle importance, let us examine why oil exploration is limited to a mile deep in the sea.  If this spill was in say, 500 feet of water or on land, it would have already been stopped and cleaned up.  But the far-out environmentalists and their close allies in the Democrat Party have successfully forced oil exploration to be offshore at near impossible depths. 

There are few industries as heavily regulated as the oil exploration industry in the United States.  Yet, with all that regulation, including the repeated inspection of this particular oil rig by the current administration, we have the worst oil catastrophe ever in America.  Hardly a case for more regulation, but that is the persistent mantra from the Left.

For the Obama Administration and its minions in the Democrat Party, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is the gift that keeps on giving.  It is effectively diverting media attention away from the impending Blagojevich trial, which Obama and Rahm Emmanuel will certainly be implicated.  It has allowed Obama to enact an ill-advised, childish moratorium on deep water offshore oil exploration and drilling.  It will allow the continued march toward American Fascism with a rush to pass Obama’s phony carbon emission legislation.  It further demonizes the private sector, specifically the oil industry, which has been labeled as Republican-friendly, even as Obama and other prominent Democrats bask in their colossal campaign contributions from BP and many other oil giants, in a most important political season. 

You can bet this is one crisis that Obama will not waste.  It provides too many political benefits to end it now – likely the reason why the President has been doing everything but working on a solution to end this disaster.