David Deyen at FireDogLake is torn over Obama’s deepwater drilling moratorium:

Apparently how it goes is you can announce a moratorium, have the courts nullify it, and then go ahead and announce a new moratorium. I’m concerned about what that says about checks and balances, and where the line gets drawn.

Hurray!  A liberal concerned about a violation of checks and balances when a Democrat is in office. Will wonders never cease? I’ll go ahead and answer that yes, they will cease, because Deyen quickly ovecomes his concerns about the President ignoring the court’s order to allow drilling again by giving the old, tired arguments about “corruption” and “profits over lives”:| MORE ›

Texas Rep. Joe Barton created fury among Congressional Democrats and Republicans alike today when he described the Obama administration’s work with BP in creating a $20 billion escrow fund to help assist the local fisherman and other workers who are now out of work because of the oil spill as a “shakedown,” or, in other words, suggested the administration is extorting BP.| MORE ›

This article first appeared at NewsReal Blog.

Do you remember how ABC News, CNN, MSNBC, CBS and every other network were in love withBarack Obama back when he was still a mere senator campaigning for president? He could do no wrong. Well, all that has changed now that the Messiah has proved incapable of handling the BP oil spill:| MORE ›