A Serious Crisis Gone to Waste

Whoa! Have you noticed the growing number of liberal pundits turning on the President? And I don't just mean disagreeing with him here and there over this or that policy. The watershed , of course, is the now over-a-month-long Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Are we to conclude that these otherwise card-carrying Lefties are now having "second thoughts" about their commitment to liberalism?

Not a chance. As they see it, the oil spill is tailor-made for national government intervention and growth, not to mention profound justification of same. And the opportunity, like the oil in the Gulf, is slipping away. If anything, they worry that Obama's bungling will do great, if not irreversible harm to the noble cause that is Big Government.

And to think that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel famously said, even before the Administration took office, that "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.”