REPLACE THEM WITH WHOM?

If you could control an oil spill with lawyers and regulation-writers, and by signing papers and obtaining court injunctions ... then maybe the U.S. government could do something," said Byron W. King, an energy analyst at Agora Financial. "But really, Uncle Sam has almost no institutional ability to control the oil spill. For that, you need people with technical authority, technical skill and firms with industrial capabilities.

So explain to me why the Obama administration - and the Governor of Florida - continue to threaten and vilify the only team in town with the skill and industrial capability to stop the oil spill.

FEDERAL DEBT as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

I never thought I'd be nostalgic for the Carter years....

ON MAY 25, BP SENT FLORIDA "a $25 million 'grant' for, well, let's see. Hazmat suits, sand berms and containment booms to counter the looming threat of oily muck? Well, no. Florida Gov. Charlie Crist is using the funds for an 'emergency tourism marketing campaign' to preserve and protect, we assume, the image of the Sunshine State."

Today on the radio news, I heard Crist say “It’s okay to vilify BP.”

Seems to me it would be more appropriate for BP to vilify Charlie Crist.

HMMPF! Nerobama.

Emperor Nero meet President Barack Obama. Just as Nero was the youngest emperor to be named when he became such at the tender age of sixteen, so too President Obama is the youngest president in the last fifty years. Like Nero before him, Obama's inexperience is showing, as is his deafness to the real priorities and needs of the people he purports to lead.

And the answer to the final question is stupidity.

But, I suspect, a truth nonetheless.