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elfsLast night, I had a brief window driving Kouryou-chan between dance class and home, and I turned on the ever-hyperbolic Mark Levin. I've been trying to listen to less talk radio-- and mostly succeeding-- but in this brief window I got all the noise I needed.
Levin ranted that the Obama administration had all the legal authority it needed to handle the Gulf Coast oil disaster, but hadn't done enough in the first ten days. He read aloud from the Oil Pollution Act of 1989 to emphasize his point. He worked hard to blame the Obama administration for any damage done to the reputations of Bobby Jindal, Haley Barbour, and Charlie Crist (the governors of Gulf Coast states Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida respectively, and all Republicans).
And I could hear the Alternative Universe Mark Levin in my head. In the Alternative Universe, the Obama administration had taken all of the steps Levin claimed were within its powers and necessity, but the blowout had turned out to be much smaller and essentially innocuous. BP had spent a lot of money coming up to European drilling standards. And the Alternative Universe Mark Levin ranted: "Those Commie BASTARDS in the WHITE House are trying to UNDERMINE and DESTROY corporate success by TAXING BP out of EXISTENCE. Contigency planning, pfaugh. They KNEW this wasn't a big deal but they HAD to RUIN a great company that's producing AMERICAN oil rather than buying it from COMMIES and ISLAMOFACISTS!" Suddenly his voice gets low and earnest: "Mark my words, America, this administration will stop at nothing to turn this country into a European socialist HELLHOLE!"
There's no pleasing either version of Mark Levin.
Levin ranted that the Obama administration had all the legal authority it needed to handle the Gulf Coast oil disaster, but hadn't done enough in the first ten days. He read aloud from the Oil Pollution Act of 1989 to emphasize his point. He worked hard to blame the Obama administration for any damage done to the reputations of Bobby Jindal, Haley Barbour, and Charlie Crist (the governors of Gulf Coast states Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida respectively, and all Republicans).
And I could hear the Alternative Universe Mark Levin in my head. In the Alternative Universe, the Obama administration had taken all of the steps Levin claimed were within its powers and necessity, but the blowout had turned out to be much smaller and essentially innocuous. BP had spent a lot of money coming up to European drilling standards. And the Alternative Universe Mark Levin ranted: "Those Commie BASTARDS in the WHITE House are trying to UNDERMINE and DESTROY corporate success by TAXING BP out of EXISTENCE. Contigency planning, pfaugh. They KNEW this wasn't a big deal but they HAD to RUIN a great company that's producing AMERICAN oil rather than buying it from COMMIES and ISLAMOFACISTS!" Suddenly his voice gets low and earnest: "Mark my words, America, this administration will stop at nothing to turn this country into a European socialist HELLHOLE!"
There's no pleasing either version of Mark Levin.
