Monday, May 31, 2010

Our Chattering Class

Steve Benen over at The Washington Monthly's blog, Political Animal, has a perfect illustration of why George Will is now, and always has been, a horse's ass.

If you don't think you can stomach 55 seconds of Will's pontification, you don't have to watch; Benen gives you the gist. And Benen beautifully sums up criticism of Obama on the BP atrocity so far:
At this point, the discourse seems to boil down to a) those who want to see the president don a wetsuit and head to the Gulf floor; b) those who want to see the president don a cape and fly around the planet really quickly in order to reverse time; and c) those who want to see the president pound on podiums and lose his cool, as if that would make a difference. (Thanks, Maureen Dowd, for comparing Obama to Spock again. That never gets old.)