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{weblog_name} - It’s Not Just BP’s Fault
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I was having dinner with an old friend the other night. He glanced down at the menu and looked up in disgust. “I can’t do it. I can’t do it anymore. I’m going to have to become a vegan. I can’t eat seafood or meat. We’ve fouled up our environment so much, none of it’s healthy.” Now, normally, I like to prove my friend wrong, but not in this instance. I was in no mood to argue. Millions of gallons of oil had just spilled in America’s seafood basket; our Chesapeake Bay’s in horrible shape; and we treat our livestock so poorly, injecting them so much, it makes our food supply suspect.  We’ve made such a mess of our land and sea that beluga whales living in the Arctic Ocean are now getting breast cancer. Everyone, on the left… read more

While all of us to some degree bear responsibility for our insatiable appetite for oil, our President doesn’t get his share of the blame for this fiasco. It has now been over two months since this oil spill. Anyone with any leadership experience would have had a meeting of the people and leaders of countries with experience in this type of issue. That should have been done within a couple of days of the accident. This President dithered publicly and found plenty of time to play golf. Within 3 days of the disaster we had offers from the Dutch, the British and the Saudi’s in helping with this mess. All it required was suspension of the Jones Act allowing foreign ships in our territorial waters. Bush suspended the Jones act within a few days of Katrina. It has been over two months and this President still has not suspended the Jones act and allowed countries with much more experience in this type of problem to help us.

Why? It’s obvious. Suspension of the Jones Act means that ships with non-union workers would be helping with the clean. Anathema to the Democrats, to the President, and to his employers which only make of 7% of the US workforce - the unions.

This President cares more about unions then he does about our shoreline. He cares more about political expediency than he does about the worst environmental disaster in the history of our country. Of course he has tried to blame George Bush for this one too, but even that old canard is getting stale. This President and this administration is not only ideologically driven, the bottom line is that they are blatantly incompetent. They have shown on multiple occasions in the last 18 months that they do not know how to respond to anything close to crisis. And when they do, the consequences are disastrous.

You talk about the Jewish community and chastise us for the lack of will or desire to do something about environmental disasters. You could just as well ask our democrat liberal jewish community when they are going to stop toeing the party line, forgetting old affiliations, and start voting for politicians that have their best interests at heart. Ones that will support Israel. Ones that will support small businesses rather than tax them into oblivion. Ones that care about the common man rather than the Union Man. Just wondering - how many Jews in America are active union memebers?

It is high time the Jewish community changed their political affiliation. It’s easy once you get started. Instead of pulling the lever for O’Malley this year without thinking, go into the booth and really think about whether or not our state will be in a better position with Robert Ehrlich back as its leader. It’s time we stopped being sheep for the Democrat Party. They have taken us for granted for far too long. It’s time we sent all of Washington, DC a very loud message. Maybe they will start to listen.