I have never liked the Great Windbag, and now I'm just beside myself.
We find this lovely piece of hypocrisy:
Democratic strategist and New Orleans resident James Carville is not relenting from his frenzied plea for President Obama to take a more direct and active role in addressing the Gulf oil blowout.
"The President of the United States could've come down here, he could've been involved with the families of these 11 people" who died on the rig after an explosion, Carville said on ABC's Good Morning America. "He could be commandeering tankers and making BP bring tankers in and clean this up. They could be deploying people to the coast right now. He could be with the Corps of Engineers and the Coast Guard...doing something about these regulations. These people are crying, they're begging for something down here, and it just looks like he's not involved in this."
Well, Mr. Carville, you have been in the innermost circles of global influence for two decades. How about telling us where were you when serving Bill Clinton, and tell us exactly how you worked to ensure that this catastrophe would never happen. Tell us how you pushed for national policies in the high salons of the Democratic Party that would wean us of our dependence on oil. Tell us where was your lovely wife when she was serving as handmaiden to Bush and Cheney and their entire oil-soaked criminal cabal. Tell us when, in the ten thousand times you have clowned around on the self-congratulatory and self-stroking Sunday morning and cable talk shows, you have ONCE brought up the issues that you are so exercised about this morning. Tell us how many meetings you have had over the years with British Petroleum and other top oil execs, and told them to their faces about the threat they pose to the public good and the commons.
Go to hell, James Carville. I don't need to hear your outrage when you have had every opportunity for years to speak truth to power and make a difference on this issue. And a hundred others. You are part and parcel of the corrupt politics that is now bringing the oil ashore. You don't have a beach to stand on in your sanctimony.