Las Vegas Sun

March 29, 2024

LETTER TO THE EDITOR:

President’s detractors spew nonsense

President Barack Obama has again succeeded in taking an intelligent approach to finding the best possible plan to address our nation’s current woes — that is, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The agreements reached with BP to place $20 billion in an escrow fund — to be run by an independent overseer who will monitor claims from parties injured by the oil spill, the suspension of dividends paid this year to BP shareholders, and the formulation of a $100 million fund to compensate idled oil rig workers in the region — are sound responses to this terrible problem.

These well-thought-out steps by the president are in sharp contrast to the lack of ideas by the ever-critical Rep. Eric Cantor, who never brings anything to the table, and to the hypocrisy of Rep. Michele Bachmann, who is known for declaring almost every Obama administration action an act of socialism, but then criticizes the president for “not commandeering boats to deal with the oil spill.” Commandeering private boats by the federal government! Disregarding the fact that these boats could not be of any value in the cleanup, why in her small mind is “government piracy” on the high seas a logical step for a government she so badly wants out of our lives?

Until these small-minded people, including Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Cantor, Bachmann and others like them, are taken to task for their idiotic and self-serving statements, America will continue to be dragged down by the negativity of dull-witted people with microphones. And let’s stop wasting media time on Sarah “Drill, Baby, Drill” Palin, who has no answers and never did.

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