Inhofe slams Obama’s response...Bush’s ‘leadership’ during Katrina ‘looks pretty good right now.’

[ProSense]

Inhofe slams Obama’s response to the oil spill: Bush’s ‘leadership’ during Katrina ‘looks pretty good right now.’

In an interviewlast night with Newsmax, Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) chided President Obama for his response to the BP oil disaster, stating that Obama “hasn’t made a good decision yet on that whole cleanup.” Claiming that Obama had “flunked” the test of presidential leadership, he saw President Bush’s handling of Hurricane Katrina as a success story:

Remember the criticism George Bush got during Katrina? They said it was a lack of leadership. Let me tell you, that leadership looks pretty good right now.

This is the first time he’s had a really tough test and he flunked. It’s not just me that is saying he’s provided no leadership.

Inhofe’s comparison does in fact echo other top conservatives leaders’ enthusiasm to call BP’s oil spill “Obama’s Katrina.” But as Washington Post columnist Anne Applebaum has pointed out, “Other than proximity to the Louisiana coast, this catastrophe has nothing in common with Hurricane Katrina: That was an unstoppable natural disaster that turned into a human tragedy because of an inadequate government response. This is just an unstoppable disaster, period. It will be a human tragedy precisely because no government response is possible.” A reminder here of how Bush delayed paying any real attention to Katrina for days.

Isn't it reassuring to know that Inhofe is passing on his neanderthal reasoning?

[maxsolomon]

1. 2000 people dead, many rotting in their homes months later

10s of 1000s trapped on a highway bridge (by racism) and in the Superdome.

Inhofe is a cancer on the body politic. Oklahoma should be ashamed of itself.

[sarge43]

6. At least half of them over age 75 n/t

[NJmaverick]

2. So Inhofe thinks the unnecessary deaths of all those poor and mostly minority peoples

is "looking good"? Hope he doesn't expect any sort of humanitarian of the year award (although the KKK might want to honor him).:puke:

[jobycom]

3. Inhofe is proof that some non-abortions are tragedies. nt

[Blue Owl]

4. Critical Thinking with Jim Inhofe

This week's episode:

"Turd Polishing 101"

[deutsey]

5. Really, Inhofe? You want to go there?

What a dick.

No government response may be possible because of the nature of this disaster, as Applebaum writes. However, perhaps one reason no effective government response has occurred is that government in America has been de-fanged and gutted since Reagan came to power.

[AtomicKitten]

7. I left his office a valentine @ [phone].

[Phx_Dem]

8. Great. I hope they keep towing that line!

Only the GOP is stupid enough to think Hurricane Katrina is a winning issue for them.

[KatyaR]

9. Dear Jackass--as an Oklahoman, I say

FUCK YOU AND THE HORSE YOU RODE IN ON.

:grr:

[jenmito]

10. To one conservative's credit, Joe Scarborough KEEPS saying anyone who calls this "Obama's

Katrina" is ridiculously wrong. And he has been defending Obama's response to the oil leak, saying he did everything right on the substance, only criticized him for not ACTING the part (while saying just the opposite for Bobby Jindal)-saying he has been out there in a lifejacket and on the sand, but he hasn't done the things he's supposed to do (like doling out the money given to him, deployed the National Guardsmen given to him, etc.

[Jakes Progress]

11. Oklahoma/Arizona. Oklahoma/Arizona

Gosh it's a tough choice.

[Arkana]

12. No one cares what Jim Inhofe the Climate Change Denier thinks.