Byron York - If we can put a man on the moon, Mr. President, then why can't we stop the leak?
When Obama referred to "this challenge," he wasn't talking about the Gulf oil leak. He was, rather, referring to the goal of creating environmentally-friendly energy in the future, and more specifically to his immediate goal of passing a cap-and-trade bill.
For Obama, the space program shows that America has the ingenuity and know-how to find new sources of energy: If we can put a man on the moon, then we can create a clean-energy future. But as they watched the speech, some Americans, perhaps millions of Americans, had another reaction:
If we can put a man on the moon, Mr. President, then why can't we stop the leak?
Julie Mason - Obama address light on details for Gulf crisis
Portraying the BP oil spill in warrior terms as a "siege" to be fought on the Gulf of Mexico, President Obama offered a general plan with few new specifics for the battle.
David Freddoso - Ouch! Louisianans say Bush did a better job on Katrina
Louisianans believe that President George W. Bush did a better job handling the crisis in the state than President Obama, 50 to 35. But most Louisianans think the oil spill is far more critical than Hurricane Katrina
Michael Barone - Voters in big states prefer skinflint candidates
"Government in New York is too big, ineffective and expensive," the candidate's website proclaims. "We must get our State's fiscal house in order by immediately imposing a cap on state spending and freezing salaries of state public employees as part of a one-year emergency financial plan, committing to no increase in personal or corporate income taxes of sales taxes and imposing a local property tax cap."
A Tea Party candidate? Some right-wing Republican? No, it's Andrew Cuomo
Timothy P. Carney - When gov’t lobbies gov’t for more gov’t money
Obama’s proposed $50 billion aid package for local and state governments is yet another instance of Obama’s reform talk evaporating in the light of concrete proposals and real dollar amounts. Whatever the supposed virtues of this huge handout to profligate politicians and bloated bureaucracies, it is, objectively, a proposed $50 billion transfer of wealth from ordinary taxpayers to a politically connected special interest that overwhelmingly and aggressively favors the party in power.
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