Red states, Republican governors and the oil spill

[poppy]

One of the things that I find fascinating about this - the federal government is currently run by liberals who pontificate the virtues of big government. Yet here we are with a real world crisis and the feds have shown nothing but ineptitude from top down (Obama included, who didn't even see this as a major issue until 30 days after the leak broke lose and CNN started televising live coverage of the spill.)

I think it's high time we spin a little of this questioning around and ask the obvious question - if liberals feel the federal government is so great at managing everything, especially in crisis times, and especially when the "right leader" in charge, why have they failed so miserably in dealing with this oil spill? Nobody can argue against the fact that they've done a horrible job to date.

I've never heard this stated but we can keep spinning and say it's because the federal government never got into the oil drilling business, they left this to the private sector who said they had every scenario covered. We can also say for sure that conservatives love for the federal government to stay out of the way until thay screw-up and then demand to be rescued. Maybe it is time the federal government got into the business and take charge of our oil resources and stop letting others pump it from the ground and sell it back to us making obscene profits.