I recently made fun of the Power Line philosophers for calling Rand Paul "not ready for prime time," as if the problem was a lack of seasoning. Today, I wondered what the boys might be saying about the oil spill in the Gulf. Turns out, they aren't saying much. Hinderaker has a post comparing Obama to Cheney in his emotional chilliness. After all, Obama played basketball on the same day he visited the Gulf. That's frigid! At least Cheney "oozed competence." In another post, he links to Peggy Noonan, never a good sign, and asks, rhetorically, why anyone would have expected competence from Obama. My favorite part of this post is Mirengoff's addendum:
PAUL adds: I doubt that liberals thought, in Noonan's words, that "Katrina was the result only of George W. Bush's incompetence and conservatives' failure to believe in government." I think they saw an opportunity to beat Bush up and took it. Now Republicans are using the same stick to beat Obama up.
This is part of a depressingly familiar phenomenon -- the politicization by Democrats of everything, with the Republicans (reasonably enough) following suit. We saw it with judicial nominees, to cite one example, and now we're seeing it with natural disasters.
Those Democrats are so mean that the poor Republicans can hardly keep up! And you have to love the parallelism between Katrina and the oil spill, both "natural disasters." Does he think the oil in the Gulf is to be attributed to a particularly windy day? It almost makes me pine for "Drill, baby, drill."
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