(warning: cartoon is unrelated to post)
* Oil.
Lots of politicians and media-types are obsessed with focusing blame on BP. And, don't get it twisted, I think the cost of clean-up is their's and their's alone... but what do these people think BP's motivations are?
I think BP is motivated by making money by selling oil. So, if they are losing oil, and spending money trying and failing to clean it up, all while giving themselves a name forever tarnished with this incident, what could they be possibly have to gain?
** Mexicans.
Mexico's President, Felipe Calderon, showed up in Washington D.C. to bad mouth a U.S. State law (Arizona's improved illegal immigration bill). Instead of having rotten fruit thrown at him, American Congressmen stood in applause. They even had cute little bracelets made aggreeing with him.
Opinions of the law aside. I fear for the state of things when ANY outsider-- no matter their title or commentary-- can address a joint session of Congress and slander one of America's 50 states. It's not just appauling... it is downright weird.
*** High Crimes & Misdemeanors
The Obama White House offered Joe Sestak a new job if he dropped out of his primary race against Arlen Specter. He didn't take the job, but he did win the primary. And, although Sestak's bribery admission happened in February, it is still getting a lot less play than I'd like.
The media is allowing Press Secretary Robert Gibbs to bob-and-weave his way out of "transparency" with clever misdirections like:
