Needlenose

From his recent attack on the Civil Rights Act it was pretty clear that Ayn Rand Paul is pretty extreme even for wacky Libertarians.  But from Paul’s criticism of Obama over his handling of the recent mining tragedy and BP oil catastrophe, I’m beginning to suspect that he’s actually quite stupid as well:

“And I think it’s [Obama's call to have BP stop the leak] part of this sort of blame-game society in the sense that it’s always got to be somebody’s fault instead of the fact that maybe sometimes accidents happen,” Paul said.

“We had a mining accident that was very tragic. … Then we come in and it’s always someone’s fault. “

Yeah, dumb-ass, accidents do happen.  That’s why we have these things called ‘regulations’ to put technology and processes in place to minimize the chance of accidents occurring, and to mitigate the effects of accidents after they occur.  ”Blame” is quite fitting when an actor such as BP actively worked to undermine additional safety regulations targeted to avoid just such an event, not to mention BP making numerous mistakes, shortcutting their own internal safety regulations and procedures.  Paul – you are a fucking nitwit!

And speaking of stupid, hypocritical conservatives, Loserman is also attacking Obama over the BP oil leak response, complaining about the government’s lack of preparedness.  WTF?  Loserman minced across the aisles during the recent 8-year Repug Reign of Error, gleefully voting against industry regulations left and right, including voting for legislation that would ‘cap’ BP’s liabilities for such a spill at $75M – petty cash, compared the billions this will end up costing in the end.

These two tragedies are perfect examples of industry lobbying, combined with pliant political tools, privatizes profits and socializes the risks of extractive industries.  And yet another compelling argument (as if we needed one) of why we need not merely to stop industry donations to political campaigns, but should also impeach frickin “Justice” Samuel Alito.

By ‘change’ the Dem leadership apparently meant a return to Status Quo Ante.  Ante Shrubya, anyway.  Looks like the new cabinet is going to be composed of reheated Clinton Admin left-overs.

Worse, guess who not only stays in the Dem Caucus, but who also gets to keep his plum Homeland Security Chairmanship?  Loserman.

Guess we’ll need to keep the site going, I’m sure there will be plenty to rail about over the next four years!

*Update*  Bad enough he is stuffing the Cabinet with Clintonites, but it keeps getting worse.  Now he’s adding Tom “I *heart* BigAg” Daschle to the Cabinet.  Jeez.  Come on Obama, time to “Move On” and get some change agents there.  I’m starting to lose Hope.